The Era of the Independents: Untold Studios Defines the Future of Creative Independents at Ciclope 2025 & Wins Animation Company of the Year
Ciclope Festival has long been the global stage for celebrating expert craft in film, advertising and design. At the 2025 ceremony, held in Berlin, Untold Studios took centre stage as co-founders Darren O’Kelly and Rochelle Palmer delivered “The Decade of the Independents,” a powerful keynote reflection on how independence has become a creative advantage in today’s industry.
SUBMERGE: Beyond the Render at ARTECHOUSE NYC
I went to see SUBMERGE: Beyond the Render at ARTECHOUSE on Friday. The experience unfolds beneath Chelsea Market in this enormous, dark room where digital art surrounds you from every direction — it’s the kind of place that makes you forget you’re in New York for a while.
ARTE MUSEUM New York: A Multi-Sensory Journey Through Light, Sound, and Nature
I spent an afternoon at ARTE MUSEUM New York, and honestly, it’s one of the most thoughtfully designed immersive art spaces I’ve been to. The current exhibition is called “Eternal Nature,” and it explores the beauty and rhythm of the natural world through light, sound, and scent — in a way that feels surprisingly meditative rather than overwhelming.
AI HOKUSAI: What happens when Hokusai meets neural networks
When I spoke with curator of the AI HOKUSAI project, art manager and producer, and CEO of TAtchers’ Art Management, Anna Shvets, she described a project that feels part laboratory, part homage, and part provocation. For more than a year and a half the initiative has been asking a deceptively simple question: what happens when you bring Hokusai’s way of seeing into a world shaped by code?
Swiss Artist Duo KiefferWoodtli Present Arboreal Severance: An immersive audio installation
Swiss artist duo KiefferWoodtli bring their immersive audio installation Arboreal Severance to New York’s Planetary Embassy during Climate Week. Using the living signals of a 101-year-old Japanese Pagoda Tree, the work explores our fractured relationship with the Earth — shifting between harmony and dissonance as visitors move through the space. On view 23–25 September, the installation invites audiences to listen, feel, and remember our connection to nature.
Britain Becomes a Global Hub for AI and Digital Art: Digitalism at British Art Fair
Britain is cementing its place as a global hub for AI and digital art. This September, Digitalism returns to the British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery with over 60 artists showcasing work across AI, AR, VR, moving image, sculpture, and more. Founded by Rebekah Tolley in collaboration with British Art Fair CEO Will Ramsay, the exhibition has already attracted over 87 million views on Instagram — and promises to be one of the most exciting digital art events of 2025.
VR Experience: City of Apparition at The Hudson Eye
City of Apparition is FuturePerfect’s new mixed reality experience, created in collaboration with visual artist Lin Shu-Kai. Building on a decade of immersive storytelling research and Lin’s fully analog world-building and puppeteering practice, the project merges installation and visual art with game engines and interactive technologies.
Blink Twice: An Augmented Reality Exhibition at The Hudson Eye
Blink Twice explores the threshold between the visible and invisible, between what’s physically present and digitally conjured. Through Augmented Reality (AR) layered on digital art prints, each work comes alive when the viewer chooses to look again. This exhibition, the first of its kind in Hudson, is an invitation to reconsider the limits of perception in a world increasingly shaped by what we cannot touch. Curated by Digital Arts Blog founder, Cansu Peker, for The Hudson Eye Festival.
Jaeden Riley Juarez at the Columbia DSL Student Showcase
On May 5th, Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab hosted its Spring Showcase: an evening of projects that redefined storytelling through AI, AR, physical computing, and more.In this feature, we’re spotlighting Gesture MIDI Controller: A Wearable Musical Interface, a student project by Jaeden Riley Juarez that transforms movement into sound through creative coding and custom-built tech.
Body of Knowledge by Louisa Clement
If you find yourself in East London this summer, Body of Knowledge, Louisa Clement’s current solo exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, is well worth the visit — arguably one of the gallery’s most powerful shows to date.
The Romance of Technology by David Van Eyssen
What happens when technology becomes more than a tool — when it becomes a reflection, a counterpart, even a source of longing? In The Romance of Technology, artist and immersive storyteller David Van Eyssen invites audiences into a visually charged, deeply personal talk exploring the strange intimacy we’ve developed with machines.
The Ode Islands by Ornagh
In her world premiere performance The Ode Islands, artist Ornagh merges live theatre, motion capture, and responsive virtual reality to craft a one-woman show unlike any other — one where the body, voice, and digital world move as one.
Amplified at ARTECHOUSE: An Immersive Art Experience Through the History of Rock
Looking for an unforgettable immersive art experience in NYC? Amplified: The Immersive Rock Experience at ARTECHOUSE tells the story of rock music and its cultural impact. Presented by Rolling Stone, this digital art show explores music history, protest, fashion, and fan culture — from legends to modern icons like Billie Eilish and Chapel Roan. A must-see for music lovers and visual experience seekers in New York.
A Letter from NFT.NYC’25: Why I Still Believe in Digital Art
Last Thursday, I joined a panel titled “The Evolution of Digital Art NFTs: Defining a New Art Movement.” I got to sit alongside Vanessa Nawka Leschke, Maksymilian Nawka, Marjan Moghaddam, Kyt, and Dani Ropi. We talked about how to ensure meaningful art is truly seen, valued, and preserved; the many ways we can exhibit digital work; and what the future might look like as digital art continues to be adopted and understood.
Exhibition: m/Other by Ibuki Kuramochi
In her latest exhibition m/Other, artist Ibuki Kuramochi invites us into a deeply personal and poetic meditation on kinship, care, and the maternal — seen not as a fixed identity, but as something fluid, complex, and sometimes fractured.
DanceAfrica 2025: Celebrating Mozambique’s Spirit Through Movement, Magic, and Manifestation
Every Memorial Day weekend, Brooklyn’s streets pulse with rhythm, color, and joy as DanceAfrica, the nation’s largest festival dedicated to African and diasporic dance, returns to BAM. Now in its 48th year, DanceAfrica 2025 centers its celebration around Mozambique: Movement! Magic! Manifestation!, a vibrant and powerful tribute to the cultural and spiritual traditions of Mozambique.
In Search of Us: Onassis ONX Curates Tribeca’s 2025 Immersive Program
This summer, the Tribeca Festival takes a bold leap into the future of storytelling with its newly reimagined Immersive Program, curated for the first time by Onassis ONX — a platform under Onassis Culture that supports pioneering artists working in new media and digital formats. Running from June 6 to June 29, 2025, the program is hosted at WSA, presenting 11 immersive installations; six of them world premieres, that explore memory, identity, and collective belonging through emerging technologies.
Exhibition: YesYou by Paul Bojack
Award-winning filmmaker Paul Bojack turns his gaze toward the viewer in his latest work, YesYou. This experimental media art installation will make its public debut at Z83 in Los Angeles from June 19 through July 19, opening intentionally on Juneteenth to deepen its themes of identity and justice.
Growing Takes Time: An Immersive Arcade Night in SoHo
You’re invited to Growing Takes Time, a one-night event blending performance, play, and digital art. Set in an arcade-like world, this immersive experience puts you at the center of the action — whether you choose to watch or play. The event also features a preview of a digital art exhibition in collaboration with ARCHIV3, showing visual works tied to the Growing Takes Time universe. Art will be available for viewing and purchase.
Exhibition: Hello Chelsea! // Techspressionism 2025
Hudson Guild Gallery presents “Hello Chelsea!” / Techspressionism 2025, a group exhibition of digital artists curated by artist and Kingsborough College Professor, Tommy Mintz. This exhibition follows the success of Hello Brooklyn! / Techspressionism 2024, which was held at the Kingsborough Art Museum in Brooklyn last summer.