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 Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. V ...

, and the

Institute for Research in Art and Technology The Institute for Research in Art and Technology (IRAT, also known as New Arts Lab; Robert Street Arts Lab) was founded in London in 1969 by a group of artists and activists including painter/author Pamela Zoline, video Pioneer John Hopkins, pain ...

(IRAT) as dissident alternatives to the original Arts Lab (London). The latter became a center for film, video, sculpture, experimental literature and avant-garde arts-science/arts-technology crossovers. In the 1970s, Lifton moved to the Rocky Mountains and in 1977 he co-founded the Telluride Institute.

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Composing in the Information Age
Whole 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) {{UK-artist-stub