Conference
The cyberpunk moment: the rise of electronic culture
Illustrated with works from the RAVERSE collection.
Book the conferenceRAVERSE
The digital art of the first rave generation, kept out of sight for thirty years.
The collection
The RAVERSE collection is a unique and exclusive record of a moment in the history of digital art that remains legendary for its absence of images and documentary evidence.
- unique digital artworks
- 3500
- hours of unreleased documentary archives, digitised
- 350
MACHAC.ART holds the rights to the collection and curates it.
Moment I
Rave
Kept for 30 years, the collection reveals the festive emergence of European “cyberculture” in the early 90s.
Moment II
Techno
The only surviving trace of the creative boiling point of the first generation of artists to use the personal computer as a creative tool.
Moment III
Cyberpunk
The missing artistic link between the pioneers of digital art, Vera Molnar and Nam June Paik, and the globalised electronic culture embodied by Daft Punk.
On the wall: a variation on Vera Molnar’s (Dés)Ordres, redrawn on every beat.
Live performance
A set beamed straight from the 90s. MACHAC.ART mixes the music and images of the collection live: sound and visuals in sync, like this wall of screens.
Book the live setDocumentary: the experience
Work in progress
A documentary tracing the cyberpunk moment through the RAVERSE archives is being edited.