July 27, 2009

Merce Cunningham & John Cage, Variations V

Bell Labs engineer Billy Kluver helped design photocells so that dancers triggered lights and sounds and films [with images by Stan VanDerBeek and Nam June Paik.] According to
media art net, this excerpt was from a 1965 TV performance of the work in Hamburg. [mediaartnet.org]
Related: Merce Cunningham video at Ubu

inspiration | posted by greg at July 27, 2009 11:05 AM