Together in electric dreams: how the art world embraced modern technology first

A wall of TV monitors, a face pixelated in Mondrian colours, a playful selfie … we may all be artists in the social media age, but, as a new exhibition reveals, visual artists were the original tech headsMetaphors about the future date more quickly than any others. Seldom do people speak seriously any more about “surfing” the internet. And “information superhighway” has an inevitable historical tang of earnest boosterism for the first dotcom boom. But other outdate