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The Trouble with Terminology

Artists are best placed to define the language of digital art because they are closest to what programs do, argues Paul Cohen

Analysis·Paul Cohen

The Art of Hacking Surveillance Systems

Traditional art locations are bypassed as control is turned into play by the artists OONA and !Mediengruppe Bitnik

Interviews·Anika Meier

Hans Ulrich Obrist on David Hockney

The Artistic Director of Serpentine, London, discusses the celebrated artist’s first exhibition at the gallery

Interviews·Louis Jebb

The Hand of AARON | Harold Cohen’s Freehand Line Algorithm

Paul Cohen discusses the role played by feedback and randomness in the early development of AI art

Analysis·Paul Cohen

On Creativity in Digital Art

50 years on from Harold Cohen’s treatise on creativity, no one has yet built a program that is creative in the way he imagined

Analysis·Paul Cohen

Zero 10 Returns at Art Basel Hong Kong

Showing in the historic trading hub, the art fair’s digital section is embracing interactivity

News·Louis Jebb

“Contemporary Perception is Hybrid” | Troika

Following the launch of their new show with Trevor Paglen, dynamic trio Troika discuss the ancient origins of AI

Interviews·Alex Estorick

Finding Photography’s Pulse

In an age after truth, nothing captures cultural anxiety like post-photography, argues Danielle Ezzo

Histories·Danielle Ezzo

On Collecting | Ryan Zurrer, owner of 1OF1

The venture capitalist has built up a unique collection founded on deep connections to living artists

Interviews·Ryan Zurrer

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

Histories·Valérie C. Whitacre

Dancing with Algorithms

The remaking of a Modernist masterpiece using AI epitomises the choreographer Alexander Whitley’s hybrid practice

Interviews·Ben Luke

In Emergent Fields | Iskra Velitchkova

The artist distills her generative vision through a sublime world of shadows, writes Alex Estorick

Histories·Alex Estorick

My Frankenstein | David Salle’s AI Experiment

Working with a custom AI model sharpens the artist’s critical take on histories of painting

Interviews·Louis Jebb

In Between the Art Worlds

The editors of Right Click Save survey the view from the bridge between digital and contemporary art with Julianna Vezzetti

Interviews·Julianna Vezzetti

Slow Digital | The Art of Media Archaeology

Zsofi Valyi-Nagy reflects on conversations at LACMA on the preservation of digital art

Analysis·Zsofi Valyi-Nagy

On Indigenous Wisdom and Technoshamanism

An artist, a tribal chairwoman, and a media theorist on how art can support land reclamation and language revitalization

Interviews·Kalie Granier

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)

Histories·LAN Party (Vienna Kim & Benoit Palop)

The Weird Science of Carla Gannis

The artist reflects on a career spent investigating digital identity and embodiment with Eva Yisu Ren

Interviews·Eva Yisu Ren

Swirls of Fortune | The Art of Clowns

Lene Vollhardt’s film tells how working with circus performers has inspired the art collective The Sphere

Interviews·Louis Jebb

Don’t Play Me | The Untouchable NPC

The theorist Alex Quicho on the evolution of discourse around non-player characters and personal agency

Histories·Alex Quicho