Auriea1 day ago
@joanakawaharalino I can’t find where to reply to your last comment so I will put it here: Honestly? Mostly no. Or rather, the word that survived was usually someone else's. With Tale of Tales we got so tired of "is it a…
An Interview with Olia Lialina
Thank you, Auriea. The "what is a game" story landed for me. I think anyone who has spent years explaining what they do to people who arrived with a different definition knows that exhaustion, and I understand why "digit…
An Interview with Olia Lialina
Auriea4 days ago
That’s a whole question... I find myself agreeing with Olia in that “digital” is a call for calm... I call myself a “digital artist” so that I don’t have to explain myself all the time. I remember fighting over “what is …
An Interview with Olia Lialina
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino4 days ago
I would LOVE to hear our community’s thoughts on this, because thirty years in and Lialina says the fight has mostly been over words. "A lot of my 30 years as a net artist have been about fighting over words and their me…
An Interview with Olia Lialina
James Merrill@jamesmerrill13 days ago
Oh just a little! There’s much more that I am keeping close to the vest. I’ll elaborate a bit more on my personal findings in Pixel Art world. Just as the writer or illustrator meticulously sets the stage for creation, t…
Are you yearning for the past?
Alex Estorick@axel14 days ago
I’m completely in agreement here @jamesmerrill but fear your secret is out ..
Are you yearning for the past?
James Merrill@jamesmerrill14 days ago
I am secretly obsessed with pixel art, and it’s a goal of mine to begin really foraging through generative pixel art systems. On one hand, a good pixel artist is making critical decisions on a pixel-by-pixel basis, caref…
Are you yearning for the past?
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino16 days ago
I love the way they created such an appropriate dialogue between art and technology, especially considering Shenzhen’s industrial history!
A Prototype of the Future | Shenzhen’s First Art and Technology Biennale
Ivona Tau@ivonatau20 days ago
Thank you Joana! On the digital-native galleries makes sense when it’s framed this way. I was just wondering whether digital-native galleries operate strictly within world 2 and 4 context or is there also something beyon…
Seven Worlds of Digital Art | A Visitor’s Guide
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino20 days ago
Hi Ivona, thank you for this thoughtful comment. I read a few of your points a little differently. On the digital-native galleries: I took Lev's worlds to be defined by who validates the work and on what terms, not by th…
Seven Worlds of Digital Art | A Visitor’s Guide
Ivona Tau@ivonatau20 days ago
I think this is part of a bigger trend toward nostalgia aesthetics. With also things like hand-drawn elements and video footage shot on older digital cameras, it's a broader attempt to differentiate from "slop" aesthetic…
Are you yearning for the past?
Ivona Tau@ivonatau20 days ago
Thanks for a very interesting read! In my opinion, there are also a few smaller art worlds adjacent to these that could be worth adding. The first is the world of digital art native galleries and institutions. We've seen…
Seven Worlds of Digital Art | A Visitor’s Guide
Arthemort21 days ago
I was so disappointed to have missed you ! I also sent you a dm on right click save account to excuse myself of the sorry state you had to experience the show in.. when i came in later no light were on (as a matter of fa…
STEMMING A FUTURE ROOTED IN NOSTALGIA | POLYGON1993
Alex Estorick@axel21 days ago
I really enjoyed visiting this exhibition @arthemort, and I’m not surprised it was so popular for a generation gripped by technostalgia. The collaboration with Mitsuhiro Arita, of Pokemon fame, was intriguing for the way…
STEMMING A FUTURE ROOTED IN NOSTALGIA | POLYGON1993
Arthemort21 days ago
Thank you, Joana, for our original discussion on the topic when I was looking at closing the press release, which undoubtedly helped me put all this into words! will add some pictures by editing the post tomorrow for eas…
STEMMING A FUTURE ROOTED IN NOSTALGIA | POLYGON1993
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino21 days ago
I loved it when you mentioned how different nationalities received it differently! Being somewhere in the middle of both cultures, I could see a lot of very Western in POLYGON’s work, but also a visible fondness and admi…
STEMMING A FUTURE ROOTED IN NOSTALGIA | POLYGON1993
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino21 days ago
super interesting read!!
STEMMING A FUTURE ROOTED IN NOSTALGIA | POLYGON1993
Joana Kawahara Lino@joanakawaharalino23 days ago
This is such an interesting take!!! I was wondering if there’s any sort of visible distinction when it comes to an output, when you’re hand coding vs vibecoding?
How can generative artists distinguish hand-coded art in the age of AI?
Danielle King@danielle24 days ago
This is a great suggestion, thank you @louisjebb! I too am a fan of Lepore’s work in The New Yorker - this recent one on proving you’re a human in the age of AI is fascinating: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/…
Calling all book lovers! Art book recommendations?
Louis Jebb@louisjebb26 days ago
I have long been an admirer of the historian Jill Lepore’s writing in The New Yorker — informed, concise, constructed from powerful anecdotes and laced with mordant wit — and recommend trying her The Rise and Fall of the…
Calling all book lovers! Art book recommendations?
Are you yearning for the past? Scroll an art feed right now. You’ll hit dithered gradients, 32-colour palettes, faceted meshes with visible seams. Work that looks like it was made on hardware that no longer exists. The two styles t...
Repeat the word "AI" 100 times until it does not mean anything. I was thinking recently about how we stopped using the word NFT (while continuing to use the same tools), and today of course, we have another overused word that is starting to lose its meaning. On my...
When was the last time you were surprised by AI? I’m often impressed by the quality of AI, sometimes I’m even fooled into believing that something that is not real is real, but I’m hardly ever “surprised” by seeing something I had never seen before,...
Five years after 2021: Where is digital art heading to? Okay, let’s address the elephant in the room. We all have this nostalgia for the extraordinary moments we were part of in 2021, when we witnessed an explosion of art conversations catalyzed by the arr...
One of the worst aspects of the NFT space. Our space has some beautiful qualities but many bad traits as well. One of the negative ones is something most people pretend like it never happens but it’s one of the big reasons, in my view, as to w...
Where Are the Women? One of the most encouraging things about spending time in the Right Click Save forum has been seeing how many women are present, contributing, questioning, writing, and shaping the conversation around...
What's the last digital artwork that actually moved you? Not the most important, not the most expensive, not the most technically impressive - the last one that actually got you. Stopped your scroll, stayed in your head, made you feel something you didn't e...
On digestion, going slow and whether the custom AI model still matters. The dominating discourse about AI — not only in art but also in the corporate world — still seems to be about its "generative" features: creating more images, using more tokens, more connectors, more ...
The Margins of Realism | The Realism of Margins. Hey All! I thought I would share this bit of experimental writing, which I referenced in my comment on this thread, reflecting on knowledge, AGI, epistemology, disability, politics, queerness and more...
What does the NFT space need to thrive? This is a topic that has been debated and discussed about since NFTs broke the mainstream in 2021. It’s a big and nuanced topic but an important one. A fundamental issue we are facing, especially now ...
Yelling Into The Void. If the dead internet theory holds, we are all operating in a kind of cultural afterlife: producing for systems that consume without reading, circulating ideas through networks that route them back bef...
The Algo Killed Curation. No one discovers art anymore... What does taste even mean when the algorithm is predicting and dictating your preferences before you’ve even made a decision of your own?
What if 10 collectors were enough? https://x.com/laurentcastell/status/2077394599350284620?s=61
On the Super Bowl-ification of Digital Art. There is a peculiar physics to attention in digital art, and it does not obey the logic the technology promised. A blockchain has no time zone: a token minted in Yokohama settles identically to one mi...
I started to create digital art because I was broke, not because I choose the medium. I really value this new space for conversations, at the intersection of digital and physical art practices. I hope we can have here (I saw familiar faces!) very open conversations and confront ideas. ...
Why does art still have to be either digital or analogue? The art market seems settled on a binary that makes less sense every year: art is either digital, meaning it lives on a screen (and/or printed as an edition), or analogue, meaning it never touched a c...
Is destroying the file and avoiding screens entirely the most radical thing you can do with digital art? Every work I make begins in code and machine logic, but ends as a single unique hand drawing on paper. When it's finished, I delete everything: the source files, the intermediate states, the whole dig...
Building Tomorrow's Museum: What Can Decentralized Governance Teach Our Institutions? Museums have spent a century optimising for a single site, a single public, a single board making decisions in a boardroom. That model is evolving. Let’s think about institution governance, funding, c...
Avant/Gay NFTs are dead. Long live Avant/Gay NFTs. After months of not travelling for art events I visited Lisbon to attend the Non-Fungible Conference 2 weeks ago. Something that I kept being asked was "What happened to those Gay NFTs" My response wa...
State of the Digital Arts. I want to start by saying that my interest as Founding Editor of Right Click Save is not and has never been in defining the digital arts but in surfacing as wide a range of voices as possible to deter...