ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PARTY DEMONSTRATION OF A 90 FOOT 210 DEGREE SPHERICAL MIRRROR MADE OF MYLAR, A FULL SCALE MODEL OF THE MIRROR FOR THE PEPSI COLA PAVILION.

20 x 25cm b/w photograph sent out in advance of the exhibition as publicity. Includes directions to allow visitors to find the location. EAT was an unique early experiment in the interface between art and science as founded by technologists Billy Kluver and Fred Waldhauer in association with Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman. Kluver was the scientist who Warhol asked to create his famous silver clouds (actually Warhol wanted floating lightbulbs – Kluver told him to be more realistic). Kluver’s vision of a loose group of technically knowledgeable people working with artists became a spectacularly successful project – around 6,000 are estimated to have been associated with the grouping by 1970. This is a rare documentation of the preparations that proceeded the group’s most spectacular success – a group of varied artworks within the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo ’70 Osaka, Japan – here shown at the Marine Corps air station, Santa Ana, California September 30 1969, 7 – 11pm. Fine.