Electric Dreams - Community Linkup
Join us for our second Community Linkup in collaboration with the TATE, working together to make the arts more accessible to our communities. Each month we’ll host our Community Linkups, taking you to see exciting new exhibitions entirely for free.
DETAILS
Time - 11am
Location - Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Date - 8th March
Community Linkups are spaces created for those with a love of storytelling, from photography to film, literature to music and anything in between - it’s a space for you to make friends, explore new worlds and attend a free exhibition.
We will be meeting up to see the incredible new exhibition Electric Dreams. 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.
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