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Electric dreams : art and technology before the Internet / edited by Val Ravaglia ; with contributions by Sarah Cook [et al.].

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Tate Publishing, 2024.Description: 239 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9781849769242
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Contents:
Together in electric dreams: circuits of art and technology / Val Ravaglia -- Materialising invisible forces -- Electric worlds / Ming Tiampo -- Brion Gysin: before and after the dreamachine / Bronac Ferran -- The city refracted: Katsuhiro Yamaguchi's applied media theory / Nina Horisaki-Christens -- A programmed openness: art as visual research -- No to Op Art: visual research and programmed arts of the 1960s and 1970s / Darko Fritz -- GRAV: visual research and the politics of participation / Odessa Warren -- Chromointerferent environment: a work in the making / Carlos Cruz-Delgado -- Dialogues with the machines -- Dialogues with the machines: early computer and cybernetic art / Tina Rivers Ryan -- Analiva Cordeiro: the computer as choreographer / Kira Wainstein -- Meaning generators: Harold Cohen abd AARON / Val Ravaglia -- Electronic DIY: tinkering with tech -- The patchy history of artists and electronics: typewriter, telephone, television, telecommunications / Sarah Cook -- Progress and harmony for mankind: innovation and commercialisation at Expo '70 / Kira Wainstein -- Samia Halaby: kinetic abstraction / Odessa Warren -- Light as material and medium: Liliane Lijn / Bronac Ferran -- Tatsuo Miyajima: light, movement, space / Odessa Warren -- In conversation / Suzanne Treister and Val Ravaglia
Summary: 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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Book Book CGLAS Library Purple 776 RAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 13048

Published to accompany the exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, 28 November 2024 - 1 June 2025.

Includes bibliographical references (pp.216-220) and index.

Errata slip tipped in.

Together in electric dreams: circuits of art and technology / Val Ravaglia -- Materialising invisible forces -- Electric worlds / Ming Tiampo -- Brion Gysin: before and after the dreamachine / Bronac Ferran -- The city refracted: Katsuhiro Yamaguchi's applied media theory / Nina Horisaki-Christens -- A programmed openness: art as visual research -- No to Op Art: visual research and programmed arts of the 1960s and 1970s / Darko Fritz -- GRAV: visual research and the politics of participation / Odessa Warren -- Chromointerferent environment: a work in the making / Carlos Cruz-Delgado -- Dialogues with the machines -- Dialogues with the machines: early computer and cybernetic art / Tina Rivers Ryan -- Analiva Cordeiro: the computer as choreographer / Kira Wainstein -- Meaning generators: Harold Cohen abd AARON / Val Ravaglia -- Electronic DIY: tinkering with tech -- The patchy history of artists and electronics: typewriter, telephone, television, telecommunications / Sarah Cook -- Progress and harmony for mankind: innovation and commercialisation at Expo '70 / Kira Wainstein -- Samia Halaby: kinetic abstraction / Odessa Warren -- Light as material and medium: Liliane Lijn / Bronac Ferran -- Tatsuo Miyajima: light, movement, space / Odessa Warren -- In conversation / Suzanne Treister and Val Ravaglia

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.