doi:10.7916/1pxx-5g25Oral history interview with Laurence Getford, 2015Getford, Laurenceoral historiesmixed materialArtistic collaborationTechnology in artSound in artSound installations (Art)--United StatesPrintsCaptiva Island (Fla.)Getford, LaurenceRauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008Voytek, LawrenceRauschenberg Overseas Culture InterchangeLaurence Getford gives an overview of his early life as a fourth generation Floridian. Getford shares an account of his path to art school as a musician traveling around the south, and his admittance to Rhode Island School of Design. He details how he came to meet Rauschenberg in 1987 in Fort Myers, Florida, when Lawrence Voytek, Getford's friend and Rauschenberg's fabricator reached out to ask for help prepping work for Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI) CHINA. Getford describes how he was working in the city's school system at the time and learning a lot about the computers that the system was buying; ultimately it was this knowledge that Rauschenberg was attracted to. Getford describes an early project he worked on for Rauschenberg with Thomas Buehler that involved scanning photography of Rauschenberg's work, to prepare for the eventual digitization of everything for archival purposes. Getford details his work on Inkjet transfers with Rauschenberg on multiple series over the next twenty years, as well as his work on the Lotus series. He also provides an account of the other people involved in producing the work in Rauschenberg's Captiva studio at the time. Getford speaks about Rauschenberg's move to Captiva: the community created there, the feeling of physical remoteness in the early days, and the party scene that emerged. Getford speaks about the presence of alcohol in the studio, and how the effect of the alcohol changed after Rauschenberg's stroke. He reminisces about his trips to New York City to empty the studio of work in advance of hurricane season, shares his impressions of New York City museum and gallery shows, and also his impressions of the collection of photographic images Rauschenberg captured on his travels