Electric Dreams
Art and Technology before the Internet

31.10.2025 – 10.05.2026
OGR Torino
Corso Castelfidardo, 22
10128 Torino TO, Italy

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.

The group exhibition ELECTRIC DREAMS. Art & Technology Before the Internet, organized by Tate Modern and OGR Torino, explores how late-twentieth-century artists used technological tools, often developed in military or corporate contexts, to redefine collective imagination and spark critical reflection, before the widespread adoption of the Internet.