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Digital Art

Crowds gather around Beeple’s robotic dog performance at Art Basel Miami Beach, many filming as the mechanical figures move inside a glass enclosure.

Why Beeple Believes Digital Art’s Future Isn’t Up for Debate

The artist doesn’t see a divide between digital and traditional—just an overdue but inevitable expansion of what counts as art and who shapes the narrative around it.
By Elisa Carollo
Two performers sit on a dark stage illuminated by large glowing red and orange screens, creating an abstract digital environment around them.

How Kay Matschullat’s MAX Is Rewriting the Language of Performance in the Age of Techno Art

In her transdisciplinary Media Art Xploration series, science provides the data that art transforms into sensory and emotional experiences.
By Elisa Carollo
An immersive digital museum installation

Museum of Tomorrow’s Fábio Scarano On Rethinking Science Through Art and Redefining Institutional Purpose

"Our job is to create experiences that make people ask new questions," the curator tells Observer.
By Dan Duray
A crowd of visitors gathers around an enclosure where several small four-legged robot creatures with realistic human heads move across the floor while people photograph and watch them.

What Zero 10 Can Tell Us About the Art World’s Next Chapter

By Elisa Carollo
An artist wearing a cap and gray sweater leans over a large oil-paint printer machine as she works on a printed portrait in her studio.

The Algorithm Thinks You’re Ugly: An Interview With Artist Gretchen Andrew

By Mieke Marple
A visitor stands with arms outstretched before a massive curved digital screen filled with a glowing grid of orange and blue lights, immersing the viewer in a futuristic data landscape.

Onassis ONX Celebrates Five Years of Bridging Art and Technology With a New Space

By Elisa Carollo
A minimalist installation in a bright, white-walled gallery features a dark rectangular panel mounted on the wall, displaying rows of seemingly random white letters and numbers resembling an encrypted code or departure board. In front of it stands a small wooden kneeler with a cushioned pad and an attached cable, evoking a mix of prayer and machine interface. Large windows on the right side let in natural light, illuminating the polished concrete floor and serene, contemplative atmosphere.

Art Basel Launches Zero 10, a New Platform for Digital Art in the Era of Next Gen Collecting

By Elisa Carollo
Installation view of “DOKU! DOKU! DOKU!: samsara.exe” at Amant Foundation, featuring Lu Yang’s DOKU avatar projected in a metallic, scroll-lined environment.

Lu Yang’s Convergence of Technology and Spirituality at Amant

By Elisa Carollo
Teenagers walk past a poster depicting Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci in a street of Rome, after a holy mass in the Vatican a day after the funeral of Pope Francis,

The Myth of the Digital Threat: How Technology Expands Art’s Reach

By Arline Mann
A woman sits in a light-filled room beside a large framed artwork depicting a flowing, abstract horse-like figure created by artist Jenni Pasanen.

Aleksandra Artamonovskaja On Technology’s Role in Art’s Evolution

By Elisa Carollo
A large rectangular artwork consists of thousands of brightly colored squares arranged in a dense pixel-like field, transitioning from blue and green to red and yellow in a gradient reminiscent of early digital imaging.

A Trove of Early Computer Art Is Hiding in Plain Sight in Sotheby’s History of Science & Technology Sale

By Christa Terry
A man in a black shirt stands with arms crossed in front of a digital artwork displaying glitch-like pink and purple patterns, mounted on a hanging screen in a minimal room with beige walls.

Angelo Sotira Wants to Set the Standard for Displaying Code-Based Art

By Christa Terry
A digitally rendered female figure with pale skin, glasses and shoulder-length hair appears in front of a satellite map showing dredging and airstrip development at Subi Reef in the South China Sea, overlaid with geo-intelligence data.

One Fine Show: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s ‘Of Humans, Cyborgs and AI’ at the Nevada Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
nterior of a contemporary art gallery showing a runway-like black carpet and colorful portraits of pageant contestants lining both walls.

In New York, Heft Gallery Brings Curatorial Rigor to New Media Art

By Elisa Carollo
Museum patrons view the exhibit "Do You Remember They Can't Cancel The Spring - David Hockney 25" at Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

Realism Returns: The Resurgence of Traditional Art Skills in the Digital Age

By Arline Mann
Projection of a head of a greek statue on a rock

Art Collector Athanasios Polychronopoulos Is Bringing A.I. Art to Delphi

By Elisa Carollo
A blue wall holds 19 framed digital paintings of colorful floral arrangements in vases on checkered tablecloths, with two elderly figures seated in wicker chairs facing the artwork, a small table with a water bottle between them.

This Hockney Retrospective Shows He’s Always Been Cutting Edge

By Renée Reizman

Christie’s Is Holding the First Ever Dedicated A.I. Art Sale at a Major Auction House

By Christa Terry
An Amiga computer system from the 1980s is displayed with its monitor showing a colorful, pixelated digital artwork of a person’s face, accompanied by a keyboard, mouse, and cables, showcasing early personal computing and digital art capabilities.

One Fine Show: ‘The Living End, Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020’ at MCA Chicago

By Dan Duray
A black-and-white photograph of Tanaka Atsuko’s "Electric Dress," showcasing the artist wearing an intricate, bulb-covered costume of neon tubes and light bulbs, emphasizing experimental and kinetic art.

Lightmachines, Digital Realities and the Art of Technological Nostalgia at Tate Modern

By Simon Coates
An artist, Anna Ridler, sits at a desk in her studio, wearing a floral-patterned outfit, carefully examining a grid of floral images arranged on a cutting mat, with shelves, books, and artworks in the background.

When Human Creativity Meets Technical Autonomy: An Interview With Artist Anna Ridler

By Christa Terry

Gillian Varney On the Lumen Prize and Its Relevance After Thirteen Years

By Christa Terry
Image of Walt Disney Concert all with a digital installation all around.

Refik Anadol Is Launching the World’s First Museum of A.I. Art

By Elisa Carollo
Two people sit on a yellow couch in a high-ceiling room filled with art

Meet the Collectors: Margo and Jordan Castro On Collecting Around Deviously Kawaii Themes

By Christa Terry
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