Electric Dreams: Art And Technology Before The Internet
From the birth of op art to the dawn of the internet age, artists found new ways to engage the senses and play with our perception. Electric Dreams celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who pioneered a new era of immersive sensory installations and automatically-generated works.
This major exhibition brings together groundbreaking works by a wide range of international artists who engaged with science, technology and material innovation. Experience the psychedelic environments they created in the 1950s and 60s, built using mathematical principles, motorised components and new industrial processes. See how radical artists embraced the birth of digital technology in the 1970s and 1980s, experimenting with machine-made art and early home computing systems.
One of Tate Modern’s most ambitious exhibitions to date, Electric Dreams offers visitors a rare chance to experience incredible works of vintage tech art in action – a look back at how artists imagined the visual language of the future.
From the birth of op art to the dawn of the internet age, artists found new ways to engage the senses and play with our perception. Electric Dreams celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who pioneered a new era of immersive sensory installations and automatically-generated works.
This major exhibition brings together groundbreaking works by a wide range of international artists who engaged with science, technology and material innovation. Experience the psychedelic environments they created in the 1950s and 60s, built using mathematical principles, motorised components and new industrial processes. See how radical artists embraced the birth of digital technology in the 1970s and 1980s, experimenting with machine-made art and early home computing systems.
One of Tate Modern’s most ambitious exhibitions to date, Electric Dreams offers visitors a rare chance to experience incredible works of vintage tech art in action – a look back at how artists imagined the visual language of the future.
Artists on show
- Akbar Padamsee
- Alberto Biasi
- Aleksandar Srnec
- Almir da Silva Mavignier
- Analivia Cordeiro
- Atsuko Tanaka
- Atul Desai
- Ben Laposky
- Brion Gysin
- Carlos Cruz-Diez
- Charles Csuri
- Dadamaino
- David Medalla
- Davide Boriani
- Desmond Paul Henry
- Eduardo Kac
- Edward Ihnatowicz
- Edward Zajec
- Elsa Garmire
- Franciszka Themerson
- François Morellet
- Frieder Nake
- Fujiko Nakaya
- Georg Nees
- Grazia Varisco
- Günther Uecker
- Gustav Metzger
- Harold Cohen
- Heinz Mack
- Herbert W. Franke
- Hervé Huitric
- Hiroshi Kawano
- Ivan Dryer
- Ivan Picelj
- Jean Tinguely
- Jesus-Rafael Soto
- Jud Yalkut
- Julio Le Parc
- Katsuhiro Yamaguchi
- Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
- Liliane Lijn
- Lillian Schwartz
- Lucia Di Luciano
- Manfred Mohr
- Manuel Barbadillo
- Marina Apollonio
- Martha Boto
- Mary Martin
- Miguel Ángel Vidal
- Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam
- Monika Fleischmann
- Monique Nahas
- Nam June Paik
- Nanda Vigo
- Otto Piene
- Paolo Scheggi
- Pol Bury
- Rebecca Allen
- Robert Mallary
- Ruth Leavitt
- Samia A. Halaby
- Sonia Landy Sheridan
- Steina & Woody Vasulka
- Stephen Willats
- Suzanne Treister
- Tatsuo Miyajima
- Tomislav Mikulic
- Tsai Wen-Ying
- Vera Molnár
- Vera Spencer
- Vladimir Bonacic
- Waldemar Cordeiro
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