Electric Dreams: Tate Modern explores how artists pioneered the digital age before the Internet

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The exhibition features 150 works by 70 artists from around the world, showcasing the innovative use of tools like LED lights, CRT monitors, and kinetic sculptures.

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00:30These are artists who, instead of using oil paint or bronze,

00:35used the tools of technology that were available to them

00:38to try to picture a kind of utopian future

00:42after all the disruption of the Second World War,

00:45to try and think, like, how can we make work

00:48that connects us to the modern world we're living in?

00:51How do we better connect to each other

00:53was a big impulse for those artists too.

01:00MUSIC

01:16People in my studio building were really frightened for me

01:19that I would be eaten by the machine.

01:21I think artists using AI

01:24is just part of an inevitable series

01:28of artists using new technologies.

01:30And I think artists using AI

01:32is far better than the military using AI.

01:35MUSIC

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