From the birth of op art to the dawn of the internet age, artists found new ways to engage the senses and play with perception. Electric Dreams, one of Tate Modern's most ambitious exhibitions to date, 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 publication, part of the Tate Dialogues series, provides an essential overview of the exhibition, and of this extraordinary period showcasing groundbreaking works by international artists engaging with science, technology and material innovation in radical new ways, and celebrating their influence today.