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The artists Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Holly Herndon, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Ayoung Kim, Andrew Thomas Huang, Liam Young, Kate Crawford, Vladan Joler, and Sougwen Chung are among the participants in Creative Intelligence, a new London-based festival exploring how art and technologies, including AI, are combining to shape the future.

In 2018, Mario Klingemann created Memories of Passersby, a wood cabinet hosting a computer connected to a digital screen. The computer was instructed to generate faces using GANs (generative adversarial networks) trained on European public-domain portraits and display them on the screen. The project was capable of generating an infinite stream of portraits, all within the same aesthetic universe of uncanny, convulsive beauty, as Francis Bacon or André Breton would have said.

Why does art still have to be either digital or analogue? Why does art still have to be either digital or analogue? The art market seems settled on a binary that makes less sense every year: art is either digital, meaning it lives on a screen (and/or printed as an edition), or analogue, meaning it never touched a c...

Cao Fei pioneered world-building as an artistic practice. Between 2008 and 2011 she built RMB City inside Second Life, treating it not as a game but as a medium: a virtual metropolis she moved through as her avatar, China Tracy, who ran talk shows and feng shui sessions and conducted a love life in public. It was a working site of urbanism, economy and desire well before Web 3 arrived to sell “your own virtual land” in Decentraland — and far more critical about what such a place was for.

For over 10 years, the artist Anna Ridler has been exploring, and sharing, the possibilities of working creatively with artificial intelligence. She makes her own datasets to train neural networks, and investigates how knowledge, and the language that describes it, is displayed, and shared.

Massimiliano Gioni has been appointed the next Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum, New York. Gioni, who joined the institution as Curator in 2006, and had been its Edlis Neeson Artistic Director since 2014 — a role in which led the curatorial team and was responsible for the exhibition program — takes up his new position on August 1, 2026.

“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” — Peter Steiner Peter Steiner's famous 1993 cartoon has become shorthand for the early internet: a place where anonymity made reinvention possible. Three decades later, anonymity hasn’t disappeared, it has changed shape. Today it lives in memes, avatars, burner accounts, Discord servers, crypto communities, and anonymous image boards. It’s also become one of the places where ideas about masculinity, belonging, and identity are negotiated.

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AllCommentaryResourcesEventsOpportunitiesPromotionMeta Thanks for sharing this @pgervois . Your story is a good reminder that we don't always choose our medium - sometimes our medium chooses us, through circumstance, curiosity, or necessity. Your question also resonates with… I started to create digital art because I was broke, not because I choose the medium xoxo @cvk ! About our new website Thank you @cvk ! Honored to carry forward what you and your team initiated.

The New York gallery bitforms is marking its 25th anniversary in 2026: a quarter-century dedicated to the showing and promoting of digital, internet, time-based, and new media art forms. In that period of rapid advances in software, computing power, and screen technology, the gallery’s ebullient founder, Steven Sacks, has been at the center of the conversation about the lexicon and genealogy of experimental media art, and its presentation in commercial, public and private spaces.