Art Before the Algorithm: How the Past Illuminates Our AI Present
The Tate Modern’s "Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet", offers a fascinating glimpse into a forgotten era – a time before AI’s pervasiveness, before the internet dominated our lives. Walking through this exhibition is to encounter a dialogue between artists and machines, a conversation that began long before the current hype cycle of AI art.
Walking through "Electric Dreams" feels like stepping into a time capsule. "Electric Dreams" doesn’t just highlight art’s intersection with technology, it encourages us to imagine a future – a future that’s unsettling in its novelty – different, perhaps, than the one we inhabit now.
The exhibition reminds us that the dream of a world where technology seamlessly intertwines with creativity isn’t confined to silicon and lines of code. The exhibition’s title, reminding us of a 1984 synth-pop anthem by Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey and Philip K Dick’s dystopian novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, evokes a world where the lines between human and machine were barely aetchings.
The exhibition is a journey through key innovations and artistic explorations that didn’t just result in cool new art pieces, but advanced how we think about AI
One keyword theme is the human hand guiding technology. We encounter toil ands pieces curateds of a world, not of homogeneity. One section showcases artworks illustrating a before-the-internet future, punctuated by the anxieties and utopian dreams of the period. We are reminded of the optimism around computers and early manifestations.
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