Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet, Tate Publishing, 2024
Edited by Val Ravaglia
An exhibition book which features Liliane Lijn’s artworks, Prism Flares, 1967, Lines of Power, 1983, and The Bride, 1988, alongside works by artists from across Asia, Europe and the Americas, from the 1950s to the early 1990s. 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.
Featuring additional contributions by Sarah Cook, Carlos Cruz-Delgado, Bronac Ferran, Darko Fritz, Nina Horisaki-Christens, Tina Rivers Ryan, Ming Tiampo, Suzanne Treister, Kira Wainstein, and Odessa Warren.
Publication Details:
- Exhibition: Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet
- Author: Val Ravaglia (ed.)
- Dimensions: 26.5 x 21 cm
- Material: FSC certified paper
- ISBN 9781849769235
- Hardback
- Publisher: Tate Publishing
- Pages: 240
