May 27, 2026

Digital Art

Digital Art

Computer and Digital Art Network (CDAN) Project

[ad_1] Computer and Digital Art Network (CDAN) is a Digital Humanities project developed from the V&A’s Hubs, Nodes and Networks: a new history of British digital art Project. It explores and visualises the early history of digital art from the 1960s to the early 2000s through data-driven methods. The project draws on two primary data sources: compart-compArt

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Trevor Paglen to cocurate Swiss edition of Art Basel’s digital art initiative

[ad_1] Eli Scheinman (left) and Trevor Paglen (right). Photo: Caroline Tompkins. Courtesy Art Basel The artist Trevor Paglen will co-curate the third edition of Zero 10, Art Basel’s initiative dedicated to art of the digital era, that will take place in Basel in June. He will work alongside digital art strategist and Zero 10 program

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My 15 steps for creating concept art that feels real

[ad_1] In my line of work, I frequently need to world-build to bring a director’s vision to life. For me, world building goes beyond developing the atmosphere for the story to take place (also see our explainer, what is concept art?) It’s a way to let people (or the clients) experience a culture in all

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The new Wacom Art Pen 2 replicates the feel of traditional tools in digital creation

[ad_1] Today, Wacom announced the Wacom Art Pen 2, a rotation-sensitive pen for digital artists. The pen’s barrel can rotate 360 degrees to respond to pressure and rotational angle according to your current brush, pen, and cursor. This feature allows you to draw digitally like you would draw on paper or paint on canvas, rotating

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This artist turned a classic Disney character into a wild fantasy hero

[ad_1] Fragan Tanguy has been a professional concept artist since 2017, specialising in character design. Based in France, he has worked with Virtuos, CI Games, Ubisoft and Warner Bros. A fantasy and cyberpunk fan, his work balances dark atmospheres with realism. Below he tells us about four examples, from a character design for a game

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Operation Epic Furious is a video game inspired by Donald Trump’s Iran War

[ad_1] Protest art meets retro gaming in the latest work from Secret Handshake. The anonymous art collective has turned to video game design as the most logical medium to comment on the chaos of the Trump administration’s Iran War, and you can play online. The group has previously made a splash with its satirical sculptures,

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Art Dubai 2026 special edition guide: What to see and do at the free May fair

[ad_1] After the original April fair was postponed, Art Dubai will put on a special edition at Madinat Jumeirah this week. It will feature a programme of gallery presentations, institutional exhibitions, architectural installations, live performances, talks and a pop-up store by creatives from the UAE. The fair runs from Friday to Sunday, with an invitation-only

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Eight female artists who met in the digital space exhibited together at KIT FORM

[ad_1] Coming to KIT FORM on May 19, an innovative exhibition of eight female artists at varying points in their careers will showcase their work side-by-side for the first time. Initially, all the women championed in Like: connected online. exhibited irl met one another in the digital space. Central to the exhibition is an exploration

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Trevor Paglen on how digital art got serious

[ad_1] One of the talks you’ve programmed is titled ‘Barbarians at the Gates! Let Them in!?’ Do you see the growing acceptance of digital art as a challenge to the established order?I was being a bit spicy with that title! But I don’t know if it’s a changing of the order so much as a

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Archie Rand On the Irreducibility of Painting in a Post-Digital Age

[ad_1] Archie Rand’s “Heads” at Jarvis Art. Copyright DEIDRA HIGGINS Most people who grew up in the pre-internet age first developed their imagination through visual narratives they encountered in picture books filled with images of fairy tales or animal stories that could open an entire world without written language. Archie Rand’s newest body of work,

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