Eyebeam Museum of Art and Technology
The dot-com boom of the late 1990s ended with a stock-market crash and Y2K paranoia—indications of the ways in which digital culture would shape the new millennium. While artists adopted new technologies as unexplored mediums—experimenting with video games, computer animation, and robotics—traditional museums were slow to catch on. In 1998, John Johnson, an heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceuticals fortune, founded Eyebeam, a new type of arts organization supporting creative engagement with technology. In 2000, Eyebeam set out to create a new museum that would be equally devoted to exhibition and production. Planned for a midblock site in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, the program also included a theater, a school, and production facilities.
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