John Lifton is an artist and theorist whose work explores the relationships between art, science, the environment and technology. He was a founder of both the
London New Arts Lab (1968), which focused on film and
video art, and the
Institute for Research in Art and Technology (IRAT) as dissident alternatives to the original
Arts Lab (London). The latter became a center for film, video, sculpture, experimental literature and avante-garde arts-science/arts-technology crossovers. In the 1970s, Lifton moved to the Rocky Mountains and in 1977 he co-founded the
Telluride Institute.
Selected external links
Composing in the Information AgeWhole Earth Review, Fall 1992 (by Chris Meyer).
(1976). Article in Psychobotany.
(1976).
Telluride Institute website* Role in helping found the Institute for Research and Art and Technology and the New Arts Lab i
Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design, London.
* Collaboration in founding the New Arts Lab and IRAT as a dissident alternative to the Covent Garden Arts Lab
In a discussion of J.G. Ballard's "Crashed Cars" exhibition(1970) by Simon Ford
Symposium (2004).
British artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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