INT3RDISCIPLiNARY:
When working interdisciplinarily, it’s useful to address the importance of historic examples, such as the experimental education at Black Mountain College, institutionalizing Avant-Garde at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and the interdisciplinary debates at The Macy Conference(s) post-World War II discussing “problems of communication” which led to the “intensive and comprehensive study of man” and the closer look at the people who studied “man.” The overarching concept was based on the notion that collaborations between disciplines start with the search for a common language and platforms for dialogues. The selected examples from art history brings forth the experiments situated in their specific limitations, time, and location. They relate to the themes of this workshop: distance, limitations, instability, collective, detachment, disembodiment, delay, echo, feedback loop, screen, legibility, etc

Special mention to the art collaborations of: Stan VanDerBeek with MIT  and the Nancy Holt with Richard Serra.