Ghosts in the Machine

The exhibition and accompanying catalogue presents a trans-historical reassessment of optical, kinetic, and technological art, bringing together a wide range of work from - among others - Bridget Riley, Hans Haacke, Gianni Colombo, Channa Horowitz, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Stan VanDerBeek, Victor Vasarely. Truly diverse in its scope, the show will investigate the ways in which outsider artists, writers, and other cult figures have illustrated the symbiosis between man and machine, including documents and artifacts by J. G. Ballard, Emery Blagdon, Franz Kafka, Marshall McLuhan, Emma Kunz, and Edoardo Paolozzi. Constructed as a collage of essays, interviews, and manifestos, this publication archives an impressive range of thinking about artists' fascination with technology.