With so many digital artists and enterprises active today, it can be a challenge for newcomers and enthusiasts alike to filter out the noise and find noteworthy projects. Thankfully, our guests are up to the challenge: In this section, you’ll find the artists, artworks, galleries, exhibitions, and more that are inspiring their passions and work.
Erick Calderon, Founder and CEO, Art Blocks
Zaxieee, from “Wooly World”, 2024. Courtesy Zaxieee.
Zaxieee, from “The Woven Mind: Therapy for the Unborn”, 2024. Courtesy Zaxieee.
Zaxieee
“I’ve always really liked colorful things and rainbows. In the world of AI art, there’s an artist that goes by Zaxieee who is generating these AI worldscapes with yarn and fluffy figures that are super colorful. It resonates with me. I don’t know how else to say it. Every time I see his work I smile, and that counts for a lot these days.”
Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern, Still Moving, 2023. Digital, dimensions variable.
Courtesy Art Blocks.
“In the world of generative art, I’ve seen an incredible amount of work in the poetry sector. I would like to highlight Sasha Stiles, along with Nathaniel Stern. They were able to create a project on Art Blocks that combined the idea of poetry with generative and immersive interactivity called Still Moving, that I think is really powerful. Beyond that, both Sasha Stiles and Ana Maria Caballero are doing a tremendous job of bringing poetry into the world of blockchain powered digital objects, and I’m always blown away by both their presence and what they bring to the table.”
Dave Krugman, Founder, ALLSHIPS
“I think The Monument Game by Sam Spratt is one of the most interesting projects to date in this space. First—the work speaks for itself. It’s stunning. But more importantly, he used the blockchain to create a system of annotation, inviting the collectors of this work to participate in the lore and weave their worlds into his work. I find this very compelling because it is something that can only happen with these technologies. A great example of using layers of technology to make innovative new art projects.”
Kenny Schachter, Artist, Writer, and Lecturer
Courtesy Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
by Noah Charney & Kenny Schachter, foreword by Alex Atallah
“Cambridge scholar Noah Charney addressed the history of digital art while I chronicled my (short-lived) adventure during the heyday of the NFT market’s untethered bull run, ending in the hard landing—rather, the bloodbath of a crash! All the glory, i.e. untold wealth that was reaped by many, but equal time paid to the warts and ugliness that eventually brought the market to its knees.”
Installation view: Kenny Schacter: Phone Face, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, 2024. Photo: Simon Vogel. Courtesy Galerie Nagel Draxler.
“My upcoming solo show at Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, August 30th–October 25th deals with the paradigm shift that social media platforms—namely Instagram—wrought in the art world. Since the advent of the smartphone, nothing in art has ever, or will ever, be the same. The exhibit will have a unique mirror as an NFT project, in collaboration with pioneering platform MakersPlace in a unique model never before deployed.”
Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art, Whitney Museum of American Art
Installation view: Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, 2024. Courtesy Auriea Harvey and Museum of the Moving Image.
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY, Feb 2–Dec 1, 2024
“Don’t miss this first major survey of pioneering artist Auriea Harvey who has been crucial in shaping the landscape of digital art for three decades. Featuring net art, video games, augmented-reality sculptures and interactive holograms, the exhibition takes a deep dive into Harvey’s impressive body of work that plays with the boundaries of the virtual and corporeal.”
Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, Measuring the Immeasurable, 2022. Vintage and contemporary surveying tools and artifacts, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artists & UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology.
Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA, Aug 24–Dec 14, 2024
LACE, presented at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA, Sept 7, 2024–Jan 5, 2025
“Organized by the Getty, Southern California’s landmark arts event PST ART returns this fall with more than fifty exhibitions, many of them showcasing digital art and its most prominent practitioners. Among the highlights are a show at the Beall Center featuring art exploring complex systems in fields from biology to robotics, and a survey of the impressive techno-scientific practice of artist Beatriz da Costa (1974-2012).”
Noah Davis, Director of Sales, Fountain
Homepage, DAILY. Courtesy DAILY.
“As the name suggests, DAILY offers a curated selection of new AI art for sale every day of the week. It’s one of my favorite venues for browsing (and acquiring) newly minted artworks on Ethereum.”
LoVid, Hedgerow Expansion, 2022. Dye-sublimation on Poly canvas, with hand stitching 36 1/2 x 48 1/4 inches (92.7 x 122.6 cm). Courtesy LoVid and UNIT London.
3 Hanover Square, London W1S 1HD, United Kingdom
“Very few contemporary art galleries have even waded into the crypto space, but Unit has truly cannonballed into the deep end. If you’re in London when Unit puts on a digital art show, drop in to see how they present digitally native artworks in a physical space.”
Michael Kutsche, Artist
Bengt Tibert, from “Xerox”, 2023. Digital, MidJourney. Courtesy Bengt Tibert.
“My favorite artists in the Web3 space would actually make quite a long list, but what recently grabbed my attention is the work of Bengt Tibert, a Polish artist and a very interesting voice in the field of AI video art. I found his genuine approach to collaborating with AI highly stimulating, and love how his work is blending the classical and the mundane, all infused with his very idiosyncratic humor, to make us think about human society in new ways.”
Tung Yuk Li, Founder and CEO, Triple X
“Matt Kane is a one-of-a-kind artist. He has the combination of an understanding and awareness of history with an expertise of modern technology, and he has created his own software and tools (NOT AI, fyi) to “paint” in the digital world, creating the finest, subtle, visually stunning and multi-layered images.
To me, this work is a great example. It’s an iconic work created in this era that’s related to Monet, the layers of imagery and texture stand out from most other digital creations. Monet created the essence; Kane added a little flavor and “21st-century touch” to that essence, expanding it into a different and perhaps more present form to be a bridge between history, us and the future.”
Raoul Marks, The Only Way Is Up, 2022. Courtesy of Raoul Marks & Triple X Group.
“Raoul Marks’ work sets him apart as a philosopher in this new digital age. His work is a layered response to the evolving intersection of modern life and online culture. His use of technology seeks to pick apart the absurdity of this digital era and find beauty in new forms of artistic expression and the potential future.”
