Must-See Digital Art Exhibitions: October 2023
Halloween isn’t the only thing to look forward to this October — it’s also an exciting month for digital art enthusiasts! As the vibrant colors of autumn blanket the world, the digital art scene is set to ignite the month of October with a range of captivating exhibitions.
From thought-provoking exhibitions to interactive installations, these shows are worth the hype! Here’s your curated selection of the most exciting digital art exhibitions in October 2023.
Enjoy the wonderful creativity that emerges when art and technology intertwine, and get inspired by the remarkable exhibitions shaping the forefront of culture and expression in the digital age this October.
Here’s 5 of the best digital art exhibitions that you shouldn’t miss this month:Digit-All at Galerie Charlot, Paris Nancy Baker Cahill: CENTO at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYCW*IP curated by Pau Jiménez at HYPER HOUSE in MadridUnsupervised — Machine Hallucinations by Refik Anadol at MoMA in NYCBryan Brinkman’s solo show at The NFT Gallery in NYCLet's be friends on Instagram!
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Digit-All at Galerie Charlot, Paris
Digit-All is a digital art exhibition which emphasizes that digital art is an evolution of the fine arts — The idea behind this exhibition is to enable everyone to gain a better understanding of the world and the diversity of digital art. The exhibition brings together digital art by 12 artists that awaken our senses and nourish our minds.
The exhibition features art by Antoine Schmitt, Baron Lanteigne, Bora Murmure, Eduardo Kac, Lauren Moffatt, Louis-Paul Caron, Manfred Mohr, Nikolas Chasser Skilbeck, Olivier Ratsi, Quayola, Sabrina Ratté, Santiago Torres, and Zaven Paré.
“The term digital, «digit» referring to the finger or numbers depending on the language, defines this notion of counting, of algorithmic writing, but also of the immaterial dimension of the object. And yet, through this process of numbers or the use of digital networks, artists create a material, light in the form of a video, a photograph, a sculpture or a drawing.”
Still from Lauren Moffatt’s video artwork Compost XI; featured in Digit-All at Galerie Charlot, Paris
Nancy Baker Cahill: Cento
CENTO a monumental digital, hybrid “creature” will be viewable via Nancy Baker Cahill’s free 4th Wall app on the terraces of the Whitney Museum of American Art, soaring and flapping over the Meatpacking District. The work will accompany a video featured on the Whitney’s artport website that explores the creature’s imagined habitat.
“The work takes its name from the term for a “collage poem” composed of lines from other poems, alluding to the creature’s hybrid body and the audience’s contributions. The fictitious interspecies entity features a serpentine body lined with scales and mycelium, cephalopod legs, manta ray wings, and colorful feathers. The chimeric creature draws attention to the care and cooperation needed to survive under changing conditions, pointing to the necessity of symbiotic co-existence in the face of the climate crisis’s existential challenges. CENTO will ask whether a creature imagined as a collage of humans, cephalopods, microbiomes, birds, fungi, fish, and machine fulfills or even exceeds basic evolutionary requirements.”
CENTO by Nancy Baker Cahill is viewable on the terraces of the Whitney Museum of American Art, photo credited to the artist.
W*IP at HYPER HOUSE in Madrid
W*IP is a group exhibition at HYPER HOUSE in Madrid, which speaks of the importance of processes as opposed to results, an exaltation of collective learning that does not focus on the final product. Curated by Pau Jiménez, the exhibition features work by Ada Sokół, Clara Harguindey, Harriet Davey, Laura Tabares, Lola Zoido, Mayte Gómez, Natalia Stuyk, Sarah Mayer, Simone García, and Vitória Cribb.
“In a technological context, women, non-binary people, trans people, digital artists use the Internet as a fascial system where their work spaces, connected rooms of one’s own, are related in rhizomatic networks of support, support and resistance following models similar to those generated in the 90s. The presumed feminine technophobia has been overcome, we are emancipated and from this position, we will create.”
Still from video art; Lūx, 2023 by Ada Sokół is featured in W*IP at HYPER HOUSE in Madrid
Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations by Refik Anadol at MoMA, NYC
Unsupervised – Machine Hallucinations at The Museum of Modern Art asks, “What would a machine dream about after seeing the collection of MoMA?” For this show, Refik Anadol trained a sophisticated machine-learning model to interpret more than 200 years of art. Based on the publicly available data of The Museum of Modern Art collection, the machine reimagines the history of modern art about what might have been and what might be to come.
“This is the beauty of fundamental research: to see the progress we’ve made on a hard, technical machine learning problem being unexpectedly channeled to serve such astounding creativity is extremely satisfying. We’re thrilled to witness the deepening interplay between art and AI research, and eagerly looking forward to seeing what we can do together in the future.”
Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations by Refik Anadol is at MoMA, NYC
Bryan Brinkman’s solo show at The NFT Gallery
Bryan Brinkman’s solo show with Blackdove is on view October 6th at The NFT Gallery in NYC — the event highlighting digital and physical installations features some brand new work as well as recent favorites and is for one night only.
Bryan Brinkman is known for his colorful cartoon animations and pop art. Raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Brinkman studied animation at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is currently based in New York. His digital art have been showcased at SXSW, Art Basel, and NFT.NYC, as well as at NFT auctions at the Sotheby’s.
Blossom by Bryan Brinkman
Read next:
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Do you have another digital art show you’re looking forward to seeing this October? Let us know in the comments!
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