The Computer Baroque programme first screened at Tate Modern on 20 March 2009; the majority of those works were then shown in an online exhibition on animateprojects.org from 14 April to 14 July 2009.

Computer Baroque, presented by Animate Projects, curated by Richard Wright, is a selection of defining works in the history of artists’ digital moving image. Rarely seen, they represent a period – the eighties and early nineties - in which computer animation was the focus for the most audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology.

Artists wanted to push the computer as far as it would go, to create visual transformations that defied previous traditions, to blend image and music and text, to apply scientific ideas as new sources of inspiration. It created a strident kind of image that insisted on the fact of its own realisation, fleeting paeans to the artificial. Richard Wright.

Films

Particle Dreams 1988

Primordial Dance 1991

Eggy 1990

A Sequence from the Evolution of Form 1990

Ex Memoriam 1993

these are the days 1994

Data Driven: The Story of Franz K 1993

Neo Geo: An American Purchase 1990

A New Life 1989

What She Wants 1994

Maxwell's Demon 1990

Free Society 1988

Polly Gone 1988

The City is No Longer Safe 1994

Heliocentrum 1995