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Electric Dreams
Art and Technology Before the Internet
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Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the early 1990s. From collaged punch cards to early experiments with virtual reality, artists have found inspiration in technology to invent new forms and new ways to engage the...
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Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the early 1990s.
From collaged punch cards to early experiments with virtual reality, artists have found inspiration in technology to invent new forms and new ways to engage the senses.
Bringing together works by groundbreaking artists from across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Electric Dreams celebrates the innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed, and digital art, who imagined the visual languages of the future through immersive, responsive, and automatically generated works. Their circuits of connections and creativity, of new thinking and tinkering, are illuminated here through the perspectives of artists, curators, and art historians.
Hundreds of illustrations of intriguing and often stunningly beautiful artworks are accompanied by newly researched archival images, casting fresh light on this extraordinary period.
From Rebecca Allen to Edward Zajec, from Katsuhiro Yamaguchi to Suzanne Treister, these artists were unafraid to push boundaries. They redefined what art can be, channelling how electronics and computation radically transformed everyday life before the dawn of the internet age.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781849769242
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 November 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Tate Publishing
Illustration: 200 Illustrations, color
Contributors:
- Contributions by Tina Rivers Ryan
- Contributions by Bronac Ferran
- Contributions by Sarah Cook
- Contributions by Darko Fritz
- Contributions by Suzanne Treister
- Contributions by Carlos Cruz-Delgado
- Edited by Valentina Ravaglia
- Contributions by Nina Horisaki-Christens
- Contributions by Ming Tiampo
- Edited by Val Ravaglia
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 210.0mm
Height: 265.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
Val Ravaglia is Curator, Displays & International Art at Tate Modern, London. They have a special interest in the intersections of art, science and technology, nonanthropocentric philosophies and the posthumanities, curating Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet (2024–25) and A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2021–23), as well as the touring Tate exhibition The Dynamic Eye: Beyond Op and Kinetic Art. Sarah Cook is Professor of Museum Studies at the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Glasgow. Carlos Cruz-Delgado is the son of the artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, and Chief Executive of the Cruz-Diez Foundation. Bronac Ferran is a writer, curator and researcher based in London. Darko Fritz is an artist, independent curator, researcher and graphic designer based in Zagreb, Croatia. Nina Horisaki-Christens is an art historian, writer, editor, translator and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Tina Rivers Ryan is a curator, researcher, author, editor and art historian. Ming Tiampo is a Canadian curator, professor of art history and director of the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Suzanne Treister is a British contemporary artist based in London. Her works are known for being conceptually oriented around emerging technologies. Kira Wainstein is Research Assistant at Tate Modern, London. Odessa Warren is Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern, London.
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