Word: dupuy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kittenish Ball. As the prizewinners indicate, interaction must both precede and succeed innovation. Each work unites art and technology so successfully that it responds to a human touch or noise almost as though it were alive. Visitors at the Modern could plug themselves -by stethoscope-into Jean Dupuy's Poe-like Heart Beats Dust. The stethoscope is wired to a sensitive diaphragm inside a clear plastic case, and every time the viewer's heart thumps, a tiny telltale mushroom cloud of ruby-red dust boils up under a spooky cone of light. Robin Parkinson's sonically activated...
...magazine is bubbling with enthusiasm over its new editor, even though she has had no editing experience: "She is the most exciting woman in the world," says Publisher Frank Dupuy Jr. In language reminiscent of an old Peter