Art in the Postdigital Condition
Chris Dorland and Josephine Meckseper discuss 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
The Artists who Dream with Data | Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç
The co-founders of Refik Anadol Studio discuss the launch of Dataland museum of AI arts, Los Angeles, collaborating with the academic rigor and archival richness of Oxford University, and the developing ethics of creative AI
Louis Jebb·19 min read
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The Artist Who is Making Himself Superfluous | Kevin Esherick
Esherick has left an AI model trained on his own works to make art for a year without him
Michael Assis·15 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 Anna Ridler
The artist reflects on the systems of knowledge and challenges of classification she has uncovered in a decade of work with artificial intelligence
Louis Jebb·19 min read
Ed Fornieles | Borrowed Online Lives
The artist speaks to Anika Meier about growing up with Web 1.0, and how young men construct themselves on the internet
Anika Meier·17 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