Tate Modern's Electric Dreams celebrates digital art before the internet

Immersive installations explore anxiety and excitement around the cutting-edge technology of the time.
By Teodosia Dobriyanova  on 
A collage shows a group of people in an immersive 'Electric Dreams' room (left) and a composite of Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby as she draws (right)
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A new exhibition at London's Tate Modern, titled "Electric Dreams", looks at the period between WWII and the invention of the internet to explore the relationship between digital art and technology.

In this Mashable Original, we speak to assistant curator Odessa Warren about how artists in 20th century played with the new, cutting-edge tools that society at the time often feared.

"Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet" is showing at Tate Modern until June 1 2025.

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Teodosia Dobriyanova
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Teodosia is a video producer at Mashable UK, focussing on stories about climate resilience, urban development, and social good.


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