Eduardo Kac in ‘Electric Dreams: Art and Technology before the Internet’

Tate Modern
Until 1 June 2025

Three of Eduardo Kac’s 1980s Minitel works are included in Electric Dreams – an exhibition at Tate Modern that celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, and brings together groundbreaking works by a wide range of international artists who engaged with science, technology and material innovation.

Kac was a pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-web 1980s, and his Minitel works evolved from his explorations of the relationship between experimental poetry and new media, leading to him to create animated poetic works on the French Minitel platform.

Electric Dreams is curated by Val Ravaglia and all three exhibited works by Kac, plus an additional minitel work are now part of the permanent collection at Tate. Kac is interviewed in the winter edition of Tate Etc. magazine.