NeuralMar 19

Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet exhibition book
edited by Val Ravaglia

https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3333

#neuralarchive #neuralmag #electricdreams #tatemodern #opart #electricart #cyberart #computerart #electronicart #mediaarthistory #videoart #creativetechnology #onlineart #netart #artandtechnology #arttech #artandtech #kineticart #kineticartwork #kineticsculpture #kineticinstallation #generativeart #genart #audiovisualart #interactiveart #mediainstallation #mediaart #mediaarts #mediaartist #transmedia

Blake PattersonFeb 19

Rest in peace Bud Cort.

The actor best known for 1971's "Harold and Maude" has died at the age of 77.

I knew him best as the voice of "Edgar," the love struck Pinecone computer in 1984's "Electric Dreams."

#BudCort #ElectricDreams #celebrity #RIP #eighties #Hollywood #news #entertainment #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #movies

Mark HJan 23

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@MonkeyKing/115942892225937816

First thing I thought of for today's #JukeboxFridayNight theme of #RobotsAndComputers and I too have never seen the movie.

The video's great for retro computer nostalgia but also for Phil Oakey's Judge Dredd t-shirt too.

#Music #ElectricDreams

Blake PattersonNov 22

@thomasfuchs I have so loved this album (and film) these 40 years.

#vinyl #ElectricDreams #moroder

WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and BusinessOct 22

Elon Musk Wants ‘Strong Influence’ Over the ‘Robot Army’ He’s Building

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-wants-strong-influence-over-the-robot-army-hes-building/

N-gated Hacker NewsSep 19, 2025
Ah, the magical world where fraud charges disappear faster than Nikola’s production timelines! 🚀💨 Apparently, all it takes is a presidential pardon and some electric dreams to clear your name. Because who needs #accountability when you have a golden get-out-of-jail-free card? 🙃⚖️
https://eletric-vehicles.com/nikola/trevor-miltons-nikola-case-dropped-by-sec-following-trump-pardon/ #fraudcharges #presidentialpardon #electricdreams #magicalworld #HackerNews #ngated
Trevor Milton’s Nikola Case Dropped by SEC Following Trump Pardon

The US Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC) has dropped its fraud case against Nikola’s founder and former CEO Trevor Milton, after Trump’s pardon six months ago.

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Mia KivinenJul 22, 2025
Carlos Cruz-Diez's flickery installation Chromointerferent Environment (1974-2019) makes it quite clear why he's regarded a central figure in both kinetic and op art. As seen in the Electric Dreams exhibition in Tate Modern, 2025.

#LightArt #MediaArt #ContemporaryArt #valotaide #mediataide #VideoArt #Videotaide #nykytaide #CarlosCruzDiez #TateModern #ElectricDreams #London
Mia KivinenJul 18, 2025
Variable Light Scheme R. VOD. LAB (1964) by Grazia Varisco is a great example of 60's kinetic light art. Simple movement of overlapping, perforated plates creates a kaleidoscopic, hypnotic, even illusory abstract artwork. In Finland, similar technic was used by (at least) Eino Ruutsalo a few years later.

As seen in the Electric Dreams exhibition in Tate Modern, 2025.

#LightArt #MediaArt #ContemporaryArt #valotaide #mediataide #nykytaide #KineticArt #KineettinenTaide #GraziaVarisco #TateModern #ElectricDreams #London
Mia KivinenJul 15, 2025
The modules of Katsuhiro Yamaguchi's Barnacle (1966, restored 2017) can be reconfigured, which makes it a kind of a posh, minimalistic and abstract puzzle, but I doubt that any reconfiguration has actually ever happened. I also bet that the guards of Tate Modern's Electric Dreams exhibition were tempted.

#LightArt #MediaArt #ContemporaryArt #valotaide #mediataide #nykytaide #KatsuhiroYamaguchi #TateModern #ElectricDreams #London
Mia KivinenJul 14, 2025
A moment in Otto Piene's installation Light Room (Jena) (2005 / 2017), seen in Electric Dreams exhibition in Tate Modern 2025. Oh I so wish that light artists would come up with more imaginative names for their pieces (looking at you, Robert Irwin, with all your Light & Spaces), even if in this case the name was apt. Filled with a collection of quite a classic light art machinery with perforated, rotating and reflecting parts, the space was filled with spotted and wavelike light. It felt like entering a surrealist clock. Which is always nice.

#LightArt #MediaArt #ContemporaryArt #valotaide #mediataide #nykytaide #OttoPiene #TateModern #ElectricDreams #London