Sunday 25 May 2008, 21.00

Part of UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2008

This free Sunday evening screening in the Turbine Hall will celebrate the inspiring technical and aesthetic advances of early computer animation, including work by key pioneers such as Ed Emshwiller, Pierre Hébert, Denys Irving, Kenneth Knowlton, Malcolm Le Grice, Lillian Schwartz, John Stehura, Stan VanDerBeek and more.

Decades before our contemporary CGI-saturated media landscape, artists during the 1960s and 70s – working at Bell Laboratories, IBM, and in their own studios – created radical experiments at the vibrant intersection of art and technology. Tate Modern's iconic architecture will be transformed by the pulsating, kinetic and colourful rhythms of these visionary glimpses into the future of cinema.

Programme

John Stehura, Cibernetik 5.3, 1965–69 USA, 8 min

Denys Irving, 69, 1969 UK, silent, 8 min

Stan Vanderbeek and Kenneth Knowlton, Poemfield # 2, 1966 USA, 6 min

Pierre Hébert, Around Perception, Canada 1968, 16 min 27 sec

Malcolm Le Grice, Threshold, 1972 UK, 13 min 47 sec

Lillian Schwartz and Kenneth Knowlton, Googolplex, 1972 USA, 5 min 20 sec

Ed Emshwiller, Sunstone, 1979 USA, 2 min 57 sec

Larry Cuba, Two Space, 1979 USA, 8 min

Films provided by Center for Visual Music, EAI, Lumen, LUX, the Lillian Feldman Schwartz collection at The Ohio State University, and National Film Board of Canada.

This screening features strobing imagery and is not suitable for those susceptible to photo-sensitive epilepsy.

Tate Modern 
Free, no bookings taken
Tickets available on a first come, first server basis Friday 23 - Sunday 25 May from ticket and information desks.