Tatsuo Miyajima at Tate Modern London
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The exhibition Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who forged a new era of immersive environments and art works engaging with new technologies. Electric Dreams brings together an international network of artists working between the 1950s and the dawn of the internet age, who took inspiration from science to create art that expands and tests the senses.
The Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima’s eight-metre-long wall installation of flashing LED lights, Lattice B, 1990, and Opposite Circle, 1991, meditates on how time is measured and understood. Miyajima uses electronic counters not for measurement but as metaphorical devices through which he suggests dialogue, harmony and structure within a universal context.
Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet
Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG