Abstract
Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M. I. T. was founded in 1967 by Gyorgy Kepes as a workshop and forum where artists explore and realize art work in collaboration with scientists and engineers. Now the Center's main works are to discover the new way of art by technology and to develop the art into an environment. Present director, Otto Piene has an opinion to create Environmental Art. He distinguishes Environmental Art which will be developed into an environment and which, in harmony with it, will create even a new environment, from Public Art which makes limitation of space against the environment and does self-revelation. In 1977 in Kassel, Germany and in 1978 in Washington D. C. "Centerbeam" was exhibited as experimental Environmental Art by C. A. V. S.. It was the collaborative work of art and technology.
