Multiple Interaction Team
Joe Bottoni [Designer]
Joe Bottoni [Designer]: Multiple Interaction Team [Poster title]. Cincinnati, OH: Contemporary Arts Center, [1973]. Poster. 18 x 24-inch poster printed recto and verso on textured stock and machine folded into quarters for mailing [as issued]. Pinholes to corners and pencilled marks and annotations to verso. Stamped and postmarked ‘April 30, 1973’ with typed recipients address. Despite marks to verso a very good or better example.
18 x 24-inch poster printed recto and verso on textured stock and machine folded into quarters for mailing, with Exhibition notes and CAC-specific information to verso, and halftones of work by Gyorgy Kepes, Otto Piene and Michael Benoff, and Michio Ihara and Paul Earls.
MIT stands for Multiple Interaction Team and MIT stands for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. / An exhibition-event prepared by the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 4 – June 27, 1973/ Poster designed by Joe Bottoni.
From MIT: “Though the fine arts at MIT have a long history, contemporary art made its effective entry in the form of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS). The CAVS was created in 1967 by György Kepes and situated within the School of Architecture and Planning. Hungarian-born Kepes, collaborator of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, emigrated to the U.S. in 1937. He taught at the New Bauhaus in Chicago and then at the Illinois Institute of Design alongside Mies van der Rohe before coming to MIT.
“A community of innovators. CAVS provided long-term appointments to a wide range of important innovators in the visual arts, environmental arts, dance, and new media: composer Maryanne Amacher, avant-garde filmmaker Stan van der Beek, artist and educator Lowry Burgess, video artist Peter Campus, performance artist Charlotte Moorman, artist Nam June Paik and many others.
“CAVS leadership. Otto Piene, a member of the ZERO group, succeeded Prof. Kepes as director in 1974. Following Piene’s retirement in 1994, the internationally-known artist and VAP faculty member, artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, became director of CAVS. Steve Benton, inventor of the white-light “rainbow” hologram, directed CAVS from 1996 until his death in 2003; and in 2004, Wodiczko returned as director with the goal of emphasizing critical engagement with the intellectual and ethical questions posed by the social construction of advanced technologies. With the appointment of Associate Director Larissa Harris, and under the leadership of Krzysztof Wodiczko, the Center embarked on a revitalization program which included creating a visiting artist program and strong focus on transdisciplinary production embedded in MIT’s scientific and technological community.”