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Digital art promised collectors unprecedented access. Yet abundance has not necessarily made discovery easier. Artists work across chains, platforms and marketplaces. Their works circulate through wallets and social media while information about their practice, provenance and market exists somewhere else entirely. For experienced collectors, navigating this landscape can become almost instinctive: one artist leads to another, one collection opens on to the next.

In a movement that is still so young, working with even younger media, what would you call a classic in the digital art sense? When it comes to art history books, my brain immediately goes to titles like The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich, ...isms, What Makes a Masterpiece, and so on. When it comes to Impressionism, I think of Monet’s water lilies. So what are the equivalents for digital art? Which works, texts, projects, or artists already feel foundational enough to be called classics?

Images share our contemporary sense of uprootedness. Growing up in Hawai'i and now based in London, Libby Hoffenberg works with images that have travelled through geographies and temporalities: scanned, compressed, circulated, and detached from their origins. Hoffenberg transforms both found and mass-produced objects — from beach chairs to pictures of Hawaiian beaches — into mixed media paintings, sculptural assemblages, and re-enacted artifacts.

Karen Archey has been named curator of the next iteration of Art Basel’s Zero 10 initiative for art of the digital era, to be held at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2026.

An inquisitive visitor to New York City could be forgiven for thinking that this year’s Armory Week is largely about digital art. The sheer quantity of gallery openings, museum shows, pop-up events, performances, lectures, and talks devoted to art made with technology makes it hard to overlook.

“Like a mind without a body, the digital is meaningless without mediation by the physical technology or infrastructure by which it is experienced.” — Dev Harlan The artist Dev Harlan is staging a digital art exhibition on eBay. The group show “WYSIWYG”, involving Harlan and 15 other artists, is a testament to his interest in how today’s variety of online platforms — the 2026 embodiment of Marshall McLuhan’s message-bearing mass media — offers a range of framings for digital art.

Contemporary art exists in a hybrid condition. Artists move between physical and virtual spaces, and analog and digital processes while interlacing media and overlapping systems. Their practices increasingly involve constellations of collaborators, human and nonhuman, whose different literacies complicate the notion of individual authorship. Hybridity is often invoked as though it described a settled state: the joining of two formerly separate things. But the word has a more complicated history.

Jonas Lund has spent much of his career trying to solve art as if it were a system. Can you predict which artworks will succeed? Engineer scarcity to increase value? Outsource artistic decisions to experts? Optimize an artistic career? And if an algorithm can make those decisions better than you can, why make them yourself? These questions have led Lund to turn many of the systems shaping contemporary life into artistic methods.

FARRAH CARBONELL@farrahcarbonell ART VOICES: When the Image Becomes a World ART VOICES: When the Image Becomes a World. ART VOICES Season Two continues with FVCKRENDER and BAEIGE, two artists whose digital practices have expanded into physical works, immersive environments, exhibitions, and FOIL Gallery in Montreal. Th...

Resources·#digital art #social media #social networks #contemporary art #internet It's been a while since I've been sensing a shift in how social networks intersect with digital and contemporary art. Factors like digital-showcase fatigue, fake accounts, bots, and a growing nostalgia for genuine human interaction are pushing more activity toward semi-private, curated, or invite-only groups, communities, and forums — brilliant examples being Right Click Save and Serpentine's Future Art Ecosystems.