The timeline returns...

--1962, 1964 Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) Canadian English Lit. professor and communications theorist. He founded WIRED Magazine. He was the first to suggest that new media should be studied, and he was the first "true celebrity" academic.

--1961, 66,67,72 E.A.T. Experiments in Art and Technology. Movement began in 1960 when Billy Kluver invented the technology for Jean Tiguely's sculpture "Hommage to New York." The group was actually founded in 1966 by Kluver, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitmen, and Fred Walhauer. EAT formulated the artist-engineer relationship and indirectly launched sound artist John Cage, dancer Merce Cunningham, and Andy Warhol.

--1964 Nam June Paik (1932-2006) South-Korean/American artist. He was the first to use tv in his art and is considered the first video artist.

--1968 Augmentation Research Center This was William English and Douglas Englebarts' group. In 1968 they performed the "mother of all demos" at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. This was one of the first live, public demonstrations of interactive computing.