Histories

The Voyager | David Em

David Em, Transjovian Pipeline, 1979, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Created using NASA software written by Dr James F. Blinn. © David Em

The Voyager | David Em

The trailblazing artist discusses the evolution of digital image-making from Xerox PARC to NASA and generative AI

The Rule of the Bloom | Kazuhiro Tanimoto

Credit: Kazuhiro Tanimoto, (Still from) Rain Blooms #122, 2026. Courtesy of the artist

The Rule of the Bloom | Kazuhiro Tanimoto

The coder and chemist reveals the power of cellular automata to unite sound and image, writes Joana Kawahara Lino

Joana Kawahara Lino

Carl Gombrich on Art and Learning in the Digital Age

Credit: Juan Covelli, (Still from) Speculative Treasures — Tayrona, 2021. Courtesy of the artist

Carl Gombrich on Art and Learning in the Digital Age

The scholar and grandson of E. H. Gombrich discusses the evolution of the artist and the power of interdisciplinary education

María Angélica Madero

Art After Justice | TJ Demos

Credit: The Otolith Group, (Still from) Infinity Minus Infinity, 2019. © The Otolith Group. Courtesy of the artists

Art After Justice | TJ Demos

The theorist behind Radical Futurisms discusses the artists confronting catastrophe and imagining a more livable future

Painter of Machines | Miltos Manetas

Credit: Miltos Manetas, PERIPHERALS (Madonna and Child), 1997. Courtesy of the artist

Painter of Machines | Miltos Manetas

The artist and provocateur discusses contemporary art’s changing attitude to technology with app sculptor Damjanski

The Art of Computers | Apple at 50

Dev Harlan, Untitled (The Dithering Series, Styrofoam Ethics Plus) (Detail), 2026. Courtesy of the artist

The Art of Computers | Apple at 50

Founded in 1976, the $4 trillion company has created a hardware and software ecosystem for artists and designers

On Screens | Jefferson Hack and Susanna Davies-Crook

Installation view of “Paradigm Shift” at 180 Studios with work: Tiger Strike Red (2022) by Sophia Al-Maria. Photography by Feiyang Xue, 180 Studios, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Project Native Informant

On Screens | Jefferson Hack and Susanna Davies-Crook

The curators of a landmark survey of video art discuss the screen as a stage for performing identity and remixing culture

Finding Photography’s Pulse

Credit: Ben Millar Cole, Night Nurse (detail), 2023. Created with Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). Courtesy of the artist

Finding Photography’s Pulse

In an age after truth, nothing captures cultural anxiety like post-photography, argues Danielle Ezzo

Art on the Blockchain | An Entwined Market

Jack Butcher, Self Checkout (2025). Zero 10, Art Basel Miami Beach. Butcher's piece leans into the critique that “An NFT is just a receipt” by making the receipt the artwork. Courtesy of the artist . Photography courtesy of Art Basel

Art on the Blockchain | An Entwined Market

A new history of the crypto avant-garde finds unity rather than disharmony in the expanding art world

Valérie C. Whitacre

The Art of Hacking Surveillance Systems

!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Random Darknet Shopper, installation view, “The Darknet — From Memes to Onionland. An Exploration”, Kunst Halle St Gallen, 2014. Photography by Florian Bachmann

The Art of Hacking Surveillance Systems

Traditional art locations are bypassed as control is turned into play by the artists OONA and !Mediengruppe Bitnik

On Indigenous Wisdom and Technoshamanism

Kalie Granier in collaboration with Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation, The Nature Conservancy, and MBARI-Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, A’ai, 2023. Courtesy of the artist

On Indigenous Wisdom and Technoshamanism

An artist, a tribal chairwoman, and a media theorist on how art can support land reclamation and language revitalization

In Emergent Fields | Iskra Velitchkova

Credit: Iskra Velitchkova, ISG 04 | Asphalt / Weight, 2026. Courtesy of the artist

In Emergent Fields | Iskra Velitchkova

The artist distills her generative vision through a sublime world of shadows, writes Alex Estorick

Life with Assets | NPCs as Infrastructure

Simone C Niquille, duckrabbit.tv, 2023. Photography by Silke Briel. transmediale 2023

Life with Assets | NPCs as Infrastructure

The curator Nora O’ Murchú on how contemporary artists mobilize non-player characters to unsettle logics of power

Nora O’ Murchú

Don’t Play Me | The Untouchable NPC

Detail of visual by Ruby Bailey for Non-Playable Characters. © 2025 LAN Party and the authors. © 2025 Ruby Bailey for all visuals and layout

Don’t Play Me | The Untouchable NPC

The theorist Alex Quicho on the evolution of discourse around non-player characters and personal agency

The Secret Life of an NPC: A Ghost Story

Non-Playable Characters is edited by LAN Party (Vienna Kim & Benoit Palop). © 2025 LAN Party and the authors. © 2025 Ruby Bailey for all visuals and layout

The Secret Life of an NPC: A Ghost Story

The curatorial duo LAN Party introduce the first of a series of essays from Non-Playable Characters (2025)

LAN Party (Vienna Kim & Benoit Palop)

In Between the Art Worlds

Credit: Tim Kent, Swimming Hole (detail), 2017. Courtesy of the artist

In Between the Art Worlds

The editors of Right Click Save survey the view from the bridge between digital and contemporary art with Julianna Vezzetti

Julianna Vezzetti

In Search of Aesthetic Consensus | Botto

(Detail from) Grid of 50 Genesis Period works by Botto. Courtesy of BottoDAO

In Search of Aesthetic Consensus | Botto

The decentralized autonomous artist’s Genesis Period helps to establish what art is in a world saturated with digital images

THE CANONS OF DIGITAL ART

Installation view of “NFT: Poetics of the Immaterial, from Certificates to Blockchain” at Centre Pompidou, 2023, with works by (from left) Claude Closky, Rafaël Rozendaal, and Larva Labs. © Centre Pompidou MNAM-CCI, Hélène Mauri

THE CANONS OF DIGITAL ART

Leading museum curators explain how they narrate art history to one of the world’s leading artists

Dreams of Analog Machines

Installation view of “Louis Morlæ, Auto-OOO-Arcadia” at Somerset House, London (2024-25). Photography by Jack Elliot Edwards. Courtesy of the artist and Rose Easton, London

Dreams of Analog Machines

With a practice that sits between art, design, and engineering, Louis Morlæ is prepping audiences for alternative futures

Antonia Blocker

How AI Alters Art History

Credit: Installation view of Heft Gallery at Paris Photo 2025 with work (right): Ganbrood, The Second Gaze (2025). Courtesy of Heft Gallery

How AI Alters Art History

Ganbrood discusses his encounter with Steve McCurry, whose work he reinterpreted with generative AI, at Paris Photo

Notes from the Avant NFT Underground

Credit: Evil Biscuit, Drifella III #151, 2025. Courtesy of the artist

Notes from the Avant NFT Underground

A core member of the community traces a history of the grassroots movement mining subculture to the limit

Agents of Eden | Gene Kogan and Xander Steenbrugge

Credit: Abraham, mist, 2021. Courtesy of the artist

Agents of Eden | Gene Kogan and Xander Steenbrugge

The creators of Abraham share the origin story of the autonomous AI artist with Seth Goldstein

The Latent Image

Credit: Mario Klingemann, Mutation Series 6 | Mutation 1/14, 2014. Courtesy of the artist

The Latent Image

The early works of Mario Klingemann mark a tectonic shift from hand coding to machine learning, writes Alex Estorick

The Power of The Paintbox

Credit: Hackatao, GLITCH THE PAINTBOX, 2025. Courtesy of the artists

The Power of The Paintbox

Leading artists discuss the legacy of the Quantel Paintbox for digital art and pop culture

Georg Bak and Alex Estorick

On Electric Dreams

Credit: Installation view of Environnement Chromointerférent, Paris (1974/2018) by Carlos-Cruz-Diez at “Electric Dreams”, Tate Modern, 2024. © Carlos Cruz-Diez / Bridgeman Images, Paris 2024. Photo © Tate (Lucy Green)

On Electric Dreams

Bronac Ferran reflects on Tate Modern’s groundbreaking show of art by pre-internet pioneers with curator Val Ravaglia

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