Per Biorn After completing his military service in Denmark, Per Biorn studied electrical engineering, then emigrated to the United States in 1962. | John Cage From 1934 to 1937, John Cage studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg in California. |
Lucinda Childs In the early 1960s, Lucinda Childs studied dance with Merce Cunningham and Robert Dunn. | Cecil H. Coker At Bell Labs, Cecil H. Coker focused primarily on researching articulatory speech synthesis. |
Öyvind Fahlström Born in São Paulo (Brazil) to Scandinavian parents, Öyvind Fahlström spent a portion of his adult life in Sweden. He moved to New York in 1961. | Ralph Flynn At Bell Labs, Ralph Flynn focused primarily on researching the amplification of electrical signals. |
Alex Hay In his 1960’s paintings and sculptures, Alex Hay depicted the formal properties of everyday objects. | Deborah Hay Along with her collaborators, she attempted to blur the line traditionally separating trained and untrained dancers. |
Larry Heilos At Bell Labs, Larry Heilos focused primarily on laser research. | Peter Hirsch At Bell Labs, Peter Hirsch focused primarily on researching underwater sound output and radar technologies. |
Harold Hodges Harold Hodges began his career as a clockmaker. At Bell Labs, he focused mainly on laser research. | William Kaminski At Bell Labs, Bill Kaminski focused mainly on research into wireless radio transmission. |
Robert V. Kieronski At Bell Labs, Robert Kieronski focused primarily on digital information processing systems. | Billy Klüver Billy Klüver was born in 1927 to Swedish and Norwegian parents. In 1951, he earned an electrical engineering degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. |
Jim McGee At Bell Labs, Jim McGee focused mainly on research into holograms. | Steve Paxton In the early 1960’s, Steve Paxton was a dancer with the Jose Limon company. |
Yvonne Rainer After spending her childhood and adolescence in San Francisco, Yvonne Rainer moved to New York in 1956. | Robert Rauschenberg In 1947, Robert Rauschenberg studied at the Académie Julian, in Paris, before returning to the United States. |
Robby Robinson At Bell Labs, Robby Robinson focused primarily on researching cellular telephony. | Alfons Schilling Alfons Schilling was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1934. From 1956 to 1959, he studied at the Akademie für angewandte Kunst. |
Herb Schneider Herb Schneider studied in Bebek, Turkey, and in the U.S. He joined Bell Labs while still a university student. | David Tudor As a child, Tudor studied the piano, and in 1942, he passed the exam to become a member of the American Guild of Organists. |
Fred Waldhauer Fred Waldhauer earned an engineering degree from Cornell University (N.Y.) and a master’s degree from Columbia (N.Y.). | Martin Wazowicz At Bell Labs, Martin Wazowicz focused primarily on microwave research. |
Robert Whitman Between 1953 and 1957, Robert Whitman completed a degree in English literature at Rutgers (N.J.), and studied art history at Columbia (N.Y.). | Witt Wittnebert At Bell Labs, Witt Witnebert focused mainly on research into lasers. |
Dick Wolff At Bell Labs, Dick Wolff focused mainly on research into superconductors. |