'I'm painting in the technology of my time' – Samia Halaby | Tate

Step inside the studio of Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby, one of the earliest innovators of digital art. In the mid-1980s, Halaby bought an Amiga computer and taught herself how to code. With it she produced bold, colourful 'kinetic paintings', consisting of vivid, brightly coloured geometric shapes and slanting lines shifting restlessly in all directions. For Halaby, these works were a continuation of the abstract paintings she had been creating in oils and acrylic since the 1960s. In this film, we travel with Halaby from her New York studio to London for a special musical performance at Tate Modern, as well as the opening of a new commission at Outernet London, where her works are shown on a scale like never before. See Halaby's work in Tate Modern's exhibition Electric Dreams: Art and Technology before the Internet, on until 1 June 2025: https://ift.tt/dTUXlL2 Research supported by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor Subscribe for weekly films: http://goo.gl/X1ZnEl To license Tate films please email film.licensing@tate.org.uk




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