Electric Dreams: Art and Technology before the Internet
Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet is an ambitious exhibition at Tate Modern exploring the use of machines and algorithms in art from the 1950s to the early 1990s.The exhibition features over 150 works from international artists innovating across optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art – including seminal pieces such as Tatsuo Miyajima’s Lattice B, 1990 and Otto Piene’s Light Ballet sculptures (1961–). Indeed, many of the artists in the exhibition were among the very first to embrace cutting-edge digital technologies in their practices. Following a vague chronology, each room groups artists according to key historic exhibitions from the 1950s through 1970s, and then by art created on early home computers in the 1990s through to early virtual reality experiments – all interspersed with immersive installations. Electric Dreams runs from November 28, 2024 to June 1, 2025.
