Computer Art Pioneer Holds First Solo Show at 95 | Leslie Mezei
He made plotter drawings in 1967, and showed at the main art and technology shows of the day, before leaving the field in 1978. A Paris gallery spent ten years tracking him down to show everything that survives
Georg Bak·10 min read
The Immense Museum of Strangeness | Tim Kent
The painter discusses rest, recursion, and the eternal power of metaphysical painting in an age of uncertainty
Alex Estorick·15 min read
Where Is the Internet Now? | Aram Bartholl
For more than 20 years, the artist has taken online art into physical spaces, from the era of internet cafés onwards. Now that the internet is everywhere, and AI may soon browse it for us, he asks what will be left of the web if we stop visiting it
Anika Meier·18 min read
An Artist’s Life, Part 2 | Rafaël Rozendaal Experiments With Painting
The internet art pioneer tells Anika Meier how his income from digital art made it possible to extend his practice to canvas, a development that enables him to take breaks from the always-on overwhelm of being online
Anika Meier·15 min read
An Artist’s Life, Part 1 | Rafaël Rozendaal Grows Up on the Internet
Rafaël Rozendaal speaks to Anika Meier about a quarter-century of making art online and the institutional recognition that has placed him in the timeline of art history
Anika Meier·18 min read
Memory Institutions | The Ecosystems of Digital Art Preservation
Michael Govan and Michael Connor discuss the care of digital art as a negotiation between the technical and the social
RCS·17 min read
Relics of the Future
The artists Chris Dorland and Josephine Meckseper discuss art in the postdigital condition — painting, hybridity, and the legacy of postmodernism — with Alex Estorick
Alex Estorick·13 min read
Parker Ito on the Dumb Truth of Contemporary Art
The artist discusses postinternet, Zombie Formalism, and the Avant NFT scene, coining a new term in the process with Alex Estorick
Alex Estorick·18 min read
Calculated Movement | Larry Cuba
Once described as the “Bach of abstract animation”, the artist looks back on a 50-year career that includes working with George Lucas on the original Star Wars, as his 1985 animation Calculated Movements is issued as a new digital edition
Georg Bak·15 min read
The Afterlife of Herbert W. Franke
Anika Meier talks to the digital art pioneer’s widow, Susanne Päch, about a new exhibition of Franke’s work, a new edition of his writings, and why so many of the questions he spent decades exploring feel so relevant again today
Anika Meier·18 min read
On Collecting | thefunnyguys on How Interfaces Shape Digital Art
Pauline Foessel, founder of 100 collectors, speaks with Jan, aka thefunnyguys, the collector and co-founder of the digital art marketplace Raster, about discovery, data, and how the infrastructure surrounding digital art affects the way we collect
Pauline Foessel·9 min read
The Art of Hyperculture | Libby Hoffenberg
The Hawai'i-born artist discusses the visual languages that shape how we grasp the world
Ana Prendes·10 min read
An Interview with Olia Lialina
The net art pioneer, who has always treated the web as a medium, says the tech industry is working to make the digital world increasingly invisible, prompting her to demonstrate her belief in the care of digital art
Anika Meier·19 min read
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
The Optimizer | Jonas Lund
In applying the technological ideologies of the moment to his work, the artist has increasingly come to realize that art cannot be quantified
Anika Meier·16 min read
In Search of Creative Intelligence
A new festival of art and technology is transforming the Southbank Centre into a playground of human imagination in the age of AI
Alex Estorick·17 min read
Creating in Tension with AI | Genesis Kai
Genesis Kai, the artist Ming Shiu’s digital alter ego, uses artificial intelligence not as a tool for automation but as a place for dialog and disagreement
Valentina Buzzi·13 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
An Artist of the Internet | Jan Robert Leegte
Leegte treats social media, NFTs, and AI as different expressions of a single technological transformation that he has witnessed unfolding during his three-decade-long practice
Anika Meier·20 min read
An Artist with an Eye for Optics | Eko33
Marlene Corbun, curator of Eko33’s Calculated Skies at NFC Summit, Lisbon, talks to the artist about how the histories of optical inquiry and generative art are interwoven in his recent work
Marlene Corbun·7 min read