Another one that I really like that I feel like the space references, either intentionally or not, is the Victorian photo collage. It was women in Victorian England venting their frustration through collage in the 1860s through the '80s about their place in society and just how society was industrializing.
Peter Bauman, Jared Madere on Yeche Lange, VVV & Solana
I guess with the '80s, my entry point is 1987, when, age 25, I became an IBM research fellow for the next six years at their scientific centre in Winchester in the South of England.
William Latham, 1980s Computer Art: Mark Wilson, David Em, Dan Sandin