On Digital Art’s Physical Demands
The artist Dev Harlan argues, in “WYSIWYG”, a group show he has organized on eBay, that digital art is meaningless without mediation by the technology or infrastructure through which it is experienced
Louis Jebb·10 min read
Seven Worlds of Digital Art | A Visitor’s Guide
The media theorist Lev Manovich proposes a new approach to categorizing digital art based on ideas from the sociology of culture, and his own experiences as a digital artist
Lev Manovich·19 min read
A Node in the Network Preserving Digital Art | LI-MA
Gaby Wijers, director of the Amsterdam-based organisation, on how collaboration, and knowledge-sharing, has been key to creating a global approach to caring for media art and its history
Louis Jebb·14 min read
Dataland announces first cohort of AI artist residents
Maya Man, Lucia Rebolino, Penny Slinger, and Jess Starns join program run by the Los Angeles-based museum of AI arts in partnership with Google Arts & Culture
Louis Jebb·7 min read
A New Technology and Creativity Festival Comes to London | Creative Intelligence
Digital innovation and AI’s role in reshaping global society is the subject of an inaugural three-day event that also marks the 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain
Keri Elmsly, Mark Ball, and Bea Taylor Searle·11 min read
Off-Grid Aesthetics | Where the AI prompt cannot go
Text-based diffusion models have made navigating a model’s latent space as easy as typing a sentence, but also create a “golden cage” of familiar and hyper-optimized forms. Primavera De Filippi argues that a genuinely AI-native aesthetic lies elsewhere, in the uncharted regions of the model that no prompt can reach
Primavera De Filippi·9 min read
An Artist Whose Futures Keep Coming True | Cao Fei
With two big European shows this year, the creator of a city in Second Life has become an ethnographer of Chinese technology — embedding with drone-makers and warehouse robots to ask what automation leaves of the human
Jeni Fulton·8 min read
An Interview with Steven Sacks
The founder of bitforms gallery on the 25th anniversary of his pioneering New York space for new media art
Louis Jebb·21 min read
The Curator Ecology
A new generation of computational artists and creative technologists discusses the evolution of the curator-artist
Rachel Falconer and Alex Estorick·12 min read
A Sense of Color | Remembering Julio Le Parc (1928-2026)
The artist Analivia Cordeiro recounts her lifelong appreciation of the Argentinian kinetic artist and his work
Analivia Cordeiro·8 min read
The Art of The Future | Stan VanDerBeek
Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek discuss activating their father’s archive with Chelsea Spengemann and Alex Estorick
Alex Estorick·12 min read
The Machine and the Gardener | Carsten Nicolai
The artist and musician also known as Alva Noto reflects on his hybrid practice and Berlin after the fall of the wall
Viola Lukács·15 min read
The Voyager | David Em
The trailblazing artist discusses the evolution of digital image-making from Xerox PARC to NASA and generative AI
Georg Bak·8 min read
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·5 min read
Finding Photography’s Pulse
In an age after truth, nothing captures cultural anxiety like post-photography, argues Danielle Ezzo
Danielle Ezzo·12 min read
The Art of Hacking Surveillance Systems
Traditional art locations are bypassed as control is turned into play by the artists OONA and !Mediengruppe Bitnik
Anika Meier·16 min read
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·9 min read
In Emergent Fields | Iskra Velitchkova
The artist distills her generative vision through a sublime world of shadows, writes Alex Estorick
Alex Estorick·7 min read
On Indigenous Wisdom and Technoshamanism
An artist, a tribal chairwoman, and a media theorist on how art can support land reclamation and language revitalization
Kalie Granier·12 min read
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)·11 min read