Media Arts & Technology, UC Santa Barbara


A Report on the Art and Technology Program
of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1967-1971

One of the most fascinating and overlooked contributions to art in Los Angeles is the effect that the enormous California technology industry has had on it since the 1950s.

LACMA's visionary head curator, Maurice Tuchman, sought to make this influence more explicitly collaborative by instituting a program in 1967 that would pair prominent artists with major industries.

Almost more interesting than the art itself is the catalogue documenting the effort, A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1967-1971.

The book provided descriptions of the concept and execution of the program, along with extensive documentation relating to its growth. The following are some examples of artists, the corporations they interacted with and projects they proposed.