CHRIS FREMANTLE

Art and technology before the internet at Tate Modern.

Good points: properly multi centred – yes US and UK but other European centres including in Europe – Italy, Germany, Zagreb, and then also Japan, Brazil and South America, etc.

What I’d like to have seen – the collection rooms (not the installation rooms) could have had non-art experiments to just make more visually viscerally clear how much this is a hybrid practice. A good example might be W Ross Ashby’s ‘box’ or homeostat.

The exhibition has a glossary room by room but there isn’t a timeline of the emergence of terms, and the history of the language of cybernetics is an important complement to the excellent diagram of the various artists and groups.