Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute

John Cage’s Variations VII! (1966) drew sound from telephones linked to restaurants, studios, and printing presses, alongside machines like blenders + geiger counters. We’re tracing how artists + engineers staged radical experiments in the E.A.T. Knowledge Graph. 📸 www.instagram.com/p/DObrtzpjrA...

Yvonne Rainer’s Carriage Discreteness! (1966) combined performer instructions with programmed actions—slabs + cubes in motion, slides of animals, even a rising weather balloon. We’re mapping these intersections of dance + tech in the E.A.T. Knowledge Graph. 📸 www.instagram.com/p/DOJ-o2NjiK...

Pianist David Tudor turned a bandoneon into an electronic “combine,” wiring it to modulators + amplifiers so sound generated light and moving image. A performance that redefined the possibilities of art + technology, which we are mapping in the EAT knowledge graph📸 www.instagram.com/p/DN3OIxkXPg...

In Open Score (1966), each strike of a tennis ball dimmed the lights until the Armory went dark. Then, hundreds of performers emerged, visible only through infrared cameras + projections. A landmark moment we’re tracing in the E.A.T. Knowledge Graph. 📸 www.instagram.com/p/DNlRBIUupm...

In Solo (1966), Deborah Hay set dancers on remote-controlled platforms, creating a drifting choreography of order + evenness. We’re mapping the artists, engineers, works + tech of 9 Evenings—an ahead-of-its-time meeting of art + technology. 📸 www.instagram.com/p/DNTo9QMulO...

Alex Hay's "Grass Field" (1966) turned the body into an instrument by amplifying brain waves, breath, and movement. Part of 9 Evenings, this groundbreaking work will live on in our E.A.T. Knowledge Graph.
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In 1966, artists + engineers transformed the 69th St Armory for 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering—the start of E.A.T. We’re building the E.A.T. Knowledge Graph to map its legacy. First up: Steve Paxton’s Physical Things.
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Technical approaches for facilitating use of our Wikibase data

New blog post: Communicating Ontology – Technical approaches for facilitating use of our Wikibase data

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A look at some tools made to help communicate research data stored in our Wikibase including property usage visualizations and JSON-LD bulk data downloads.

New publication! “Knowledge Graphing Art Archives: Methods and Tools from the Semantic Lab’s E.A.T. Project”

Highlighting work creating a knowledge graph for archival materials from the avant-garde movement, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.).

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