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
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
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
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
Julianna Vezzetti·15 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
Life with Assets | NPCs as Infrastructure
The curator Nora O’ Murchú on how contemporary artists mobilize non-player characters to unsettle logics of power
Nora O’ Murchú·13 min read
Don’t Play Me | The Untouchable NPC
The theorist Alex Quicho on the evolution of discourse around non-player characters and personal agency
Alex Quicho·5 min read
THE CANONS OF DIGITAL ART
Leading museum curators explain how they narrate art history to one of the world’s leading artists
Alex Estorick·18 min read
In Search of Aesthetic Consensus | Botto
The decentralized autonomous artist’s Genesis Period helps to establish what art is in a world saturated with digital images
Alex Estorick·6 min read
AI | ALTERNATIVE INTENTIONS
Leading artists and thinkers raise the stakes in the great AI debate
Alex Estorick·19 min read
How AI Alters Art History
Ganbrood discusses his encounter with Steve McCurry, whose work he reinterpreted with generative AI, at Paris Photo
Ganbrood·4 min read
The Latent Image
The early works of Mario Klingemann mark a tectonic shift from hand coding to machine learning, writes Alex Estorick
Alex Estorick·5 min read
Dreams of Analog Machines
With a practice that sits between art, design, and engineering, Louis Morlæ is prepping audiences for alternative futures
Antonia Blocker·4 min read
The Artist as Comedian
The recent acquisition of a banana duct-taped to a wall demonstrates the shared values of conceptual art and crypto, argues Mitchell F. Chan
Mitchell F. Chan·4 min read
Notes from the Avant NFT Underground
A core member of the community traces a history of the grassroots movement mining subculture to the limit
GardenParty85·10 min read
On the Hypercentralization of Crypto Art
As Bright Moments arrives in Buenos Aires, the local community considers the prospects for digital art in Latin America
Fanny Lakoubay·8 min read
Agents of Eden | Gene Kogan and Xander Steenbrugge
The creators of Abraham share the origin story of the autonomous AI artist with Seth Goldstein
Seth Goldstein·6 min read