Billy Kluver, 76, an Engineer Who Collaborated With Artists, Dies (13 Jan 2004)

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Billy Kluver, 76, an Engineer Who Collaborated With Artists, Dies (13 Jan 2004)
In 1966 Mr. Kluver teamed up with Robert Rauschenberg to solve the knotty engineering problems posed by 10 artists (Mr. Rauschenberg among them) who wanted to stage their art as spectacle. Mr. Kluver invited some 30 scientists and engineers, most of them his colleagues at Bell Labs, to realize dreamy ideas like snowflakes that fell upward and tennis rackets that gave out sounds like huge temple bells.

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