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.
Artsts:
Rebecca Allen; Marina Apollonio; Manuel Barbadillo; Alberto Biasi; Vladimir Bonačić; Davide Boriani; Martha Boto; Pol Bury; Harold Cohen; Analivia Cordeiro; Waldemar Cordeiro; Carlos Cruz-Diez; Charles Csuri; Computer Technique Group; Dadamaino; Atul Desai; Lucia Di Luciano; Ivan Dryer and Elsa Garmire; E.A.T.; Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss; Herbert W. Franke; Brion Gysin; Samia Halaby; Desmond Paul Henry; Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas; Edward Ihnatowicz; Eduardo Kac; Hiroshi Kawano; Ben Laposky; Julio Le Parc; Ruth Leavitt; Liliane Lijn; Heinz Mack; Robert Mallary; Mary Martin; Almir Mavignier; Gustav Metzger; David Medalla; Tatsuo Miyajima; Manfred Mohr; Vera Molnar; François Morellet; Tomislav Mikulić, Fujiko Nakaya; Frieder Nake; Georg Nees; Akbar Padamsee; Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut; Ivan Picelj; Otto Piene; Günther Uecker; Paolo Scheggi; Lillian F. Schwartz; Sonia Landy Sheridan; Aleksandar Srnec; Jesús Rafael Soto; Vera Spencer; Takis; Atsuko Tanaka; Jean Tinguely; Franciszka Themerson; Suzanne Treister; Wen-Ying Tsai; Grazia Varisco; Steina and Woody Vasulka; Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam; Miguel Ángel Vidal; Nanda Vigo; Stephen Willats; Katsuhiro Yamaguchi; Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun; Edward Zajec
| Duration | 28 November 2024 - 01 June 2024 |
| Times | Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00 |
| Cost | £22 |
| Venue | Tate Modern |
| Address | Bankside, London, SE1 9TG |
| Contact | / visiting.modern@tate.org.uk / www.tate.org.uk/ |