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4/26/48
Bryan:
Here’s some GAC doodles - better censor one or two¹
Following Trinity, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Harry S. Truman² signed the Atomic Energy Act bringing together a committee of researchers, military, and civilians to provide oversight on each aspect of the nation's atomic weaponry and energy protocol. During these meetings (headed by Robert Oppenheimer), all note-taking mechanisms were strictly prohibited, with doodling as an exception. Bryan LaPlante, a security guard specifically appointed to conduct a fullsweep after meetings, saved each drawing (along with a meticulously redrawn seating chart, to attribute the drawings to their respective maker). LaPlante referred to himself as “messenger boy”.
Performing Günther Anders’³ analysis of our atomic age, the exhibition presents all 130 of the Atomic Energy Committee’s drawings through scanned reproduction, scattered as imagining their arrangement in origin. Each their own idiosyncratic ciphers, these drawings retain…
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Press Release
4/26/48
Bryan:
Here’s some GAC doodles - better censor one or two¹
Following Trinity, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Harry S. Truman² signed the Atomic Energy Act bringing together a committee of researchers, military, and civilians to provide oversight on each aspect of the nation's atomic weaponry and energy protocol. During these meetings (headed by Robert Oppenheimer), all note-taking mechanisms were strictly prohibited, with doodling as an exception. Bryan LaPlante, a security guard specifically appointed to conduct a fullsweep after meetings, saved each drawing (along with a meticulously redrawn seating chart, to attribute the drawings to their respective maker). LaPlante referred to himself as “messenger boy”.
Performing Günther Anders’³ analysis of our atomic age, the exhibition presents all 130 of the Atomic Energy Committee’s drawings through scanned reproduction, scattered as imagining their arrangement in origin. Each their own idiosyncratic ciphers, these drawings retain…
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