Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create captivating and groundbreaking art between the 1950s and the early 1990s.

From collages with punch cards to early experimental attempts with virtual reality, artists found inspiration in technology to invent new forms and new ways of interacting with the senses.

Electric Dreams brings together works by pioneering artists from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, celebrating the innovators of visual, kinetic, programmed, and digital art, who imagined the visual languages of the future through embedded, competitive, and automatically generated works. The circuits of connection and creativity, new thinking, and technique emerge 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, shedding new light on this extraordinary period.

From Rebecca Allen to Edward Zajec, from Katsuhiro Yamaguchi to Suzanne Treister, these artists were not afraid to break boundaries. They reshaped what art can be, directing how electronic and computational technology radically transformed everyday life before the internet age.

Pages: 240, Year of Publication: 0307, Dimensions: 21x21cm