Art
Appreciating the Performative Quality of Computer Generated Art
Can electronic generative art be interpreted as performance with machines instead of bodies? What if we are too focused on results, rather than the process?
Filippo Lorenzin
Filippo Lorenzin is an independent art writer, teacher, and curator. Originally from Italy, he worked for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Goethe Institut and Paris College of Art. He writes about media art, digital culture and art history.
Art
An Exhibition That Helps Us Rethink Our Relationship to Facebook
The main aim of the show is to offer a creative, clever perspective on the reasons behind the alienated and addicted relationship we sustain with social media platforms.
Art
Considering Immersive Art Rooms and Why We Love to Escape
“To immerse yourself” means to actively limit your senses so that you can experience a different dimension, such as a virtual world or a novel.
Opinion
How Images Created by Algorithm Channel van Gogh
Jan Robert Leegte’s work demonstrates how today, as 150 years ago, low-res messages are meant to be experienced and enjoyed in the least amount of time.
Art
Why Do AI-generated Portraits Fail at Realism?
Why do these portraits almost always fall short of being lively or authentic?
Art
The Links Between Linear Perspective and Virtual Reality Technology
It may surprise the reader to find that one of the founding moments for the development of virtual reality actually happened in Florence, in the early 15th century.
History
The Artists Who Lurk on the Dark Web
A sense of risk permeates mainstream stories about the dark web. This unsafeness attracted the attention of those artists and creatives who critically focus on the study of digital tools.
Art
The Rise of Mobile Art, From the Renaissance to the Digital Anthropocene
The creation of digital artworks made to be displayed anywhere is the latest development of a process begun hundreds of years ago.
Art
Looking at Rococo to Understand the Future of Glitch Art
For contemporary artists wondering which directions glitch art may take, 18th-century Rococo architecture offers an instructive example.
Art
The Surrealist Roots of the "Vaporwave" Genre
The aesthetic niche combining electronic music and digital art finds an ancestor in Surrealism, particularly in the self-taught French painter Yves Tanguy.