Digital Artists
Lev Manovich Says There Is No Such Thing as 'Digital Art' — There Are Seven of Them
In 'Seven Worlds of Digital Art,' published September 8, Lev Manovich argues that the category has become useless as a descriptor — a teamLab environment, an Art Blocks algorithm, and a Hito Steyerl video share a substrate and nothing else. His seven worlds each have their own audiences, gatekeepers, and criteria, and success in one confers almost nothing in another.