Information overload: Whitechapel packs in 50 years of computer art

Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) at the Whitechapel Gallery traces the impact of computer and internet technologies on artists over the past 50 years. And much like the internet, it is a jam-packed, spam filled, free-for-all. Running in reverse chronological order, it includes works by 70 artists, fr om lo-fi 60s plotter drawings to Jacolby Satterwhite’s 2016 fantasy computer game sex video.The contemporary contingent (which reads like a who’s who of trendy young artists with Hit