Eva Díaz

Art historian and author of The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College (2015), a scholarly study of the experimental methods practiced at the legendary school.

Díaz's book compares three contrasting models of experiment embodied at Black Mountain College: Josef Albers's disciplined exercises, John Cage's embrace of chance, and Buckminster Fuller's design-science pursuit of predictive control. She reads Fuller's teaching there — including the geodesic dome experiments — as one pole in a larger mid-century argument about how art and design should relate to uncertainty and system.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Díaz is a contemporary art historian who situates Fuller within the Black Mountain College milieu and the broader history of experimental practice, giving his design science a place in art-historical scholarship.

See Also

• The Experimenters — the study she wrote
• Ruth Asawa — Black Mountain College artist of the same milieu her book examines
• Dana Miller (Dana Miller) — related figure
• Markus Richter (Markus Richter) — related figure
• Mark Wigley (Mark Wigley) — related figure

Sources

• The Experimenters (source reference) — the work attributing authorship