5 Pioneering Artworks That Trace The Rise Of Digital Art

In 1966, an initiative called Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) put on a series of events in New York that paired artists like Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Yvonne Rainer with engineers from Bell Laboratories. It was one of the first major collaborations between the technology sector and the arts, and it was a hit—by 1969, the group had more than 2,000 artist members and 2,000 engineers. By integrating things like video projection, wireless sound transmission, and Doppler sonar into their work, these artists were some of the first to experiment with the boundaries of digital technologies.  Read more.

Bitcoin, Digital Art & Scarcity

When the Internet first came out in the nineties, he said, the people making digital art were computer programmers. However, eventually artists joined the online world. Soon thereafter, you had artists who were programmers and programmers who were artists.  Read more.

Is this the future of art?

If you’re a snooty old person who needs to keep up appearances in a house that’s 10 times bigger than you need it to be, the idea of spending tens of thousands of dollars on a painting is just fine. But this is the 21st century. It’s the digital age. So why ... read more.

An Istanbul show explores digital art and the beauty of monochrome works

This is among the most unsettling exhibitions of the year. Its title, "Monochrome," hints at a show devoted to black and white drawings, but once you enter the Aksanat gallery on İstiklal Avenue, you realize that is not quite the case.  Read more.

As Digital Art, Contaminated Water Looks Beautiful

Obviously, environmental issues are at the heart of many of today's debates. Turning one into an eye-catching digital art project, new media artists Nicolas Sassoon and Rick Silva contribute to the discussion in the best way they know how: the second iteration of SIGNALS, an ongoing video project which not only raises awareness about the worrying state of the world's water, but also depicts how human beings and new technologies affect natural landscapes. In a way, they question today’s non-friendly symbiosis between natural and synthetic elements.  Read more.

'Polygon Graffiti' Turns the World into Digital Art

What if the monotony of your daily commute was broken up, not by the radio playing Justin Bieber's latest, but floating, 3D digitial sculptures? That's what Japan-based "nature/tech cult" AUJIK envisions in the latest iteration of their ongoing Polygon Graffiti project, Karakuri Cores. Their mesmerizing videos conceptualize a world where augmented reality has freed artists from canvases, specific spaces, or walls, and instead allows them to create unfiltered artwork in the world through augmented reality.  Read more.

Welcome To The World's Largest Digital Art Biennial

When the inaugural digital art biennial The Wrong launched in 2013, it was the first of its kind. A massive undertaking, the online art show organized by David Quiles Guilló, founder of the São Paulo-based arts organization ROJO, aimed to bring together the best of net art and display it not on the walls of galleries or museums, but in its native medium. Two years later, and the biennial has just launched its...read more.