LACMA Gets Serious About Digital Art
DOKU (created by Lu Yang), DOKU the Creator – Concept Void #016 [an NFT], 2025 © DOKU, courtesy of the artist A group of LACMA supporters have promised more than 200 works of digital art to the museum. The objects and code range from the mid 20th century to the present and include works made using artificial intelligence. The press release quotes Michael Govan: " Digital art belongs within the long arc of art history, not apart from it." It's hard to evaluate the gift, as only three images are supplied, and few of the artists are widely known (Refik Anadol, Vera Molnár, and Bored Ape Yacht Club are among the most prominent). Shown above is an NFT by DOKU [avatar of Lu Yang], whose sensibility is somewhere between illustration and slop. Asking whether this is art may be as pointless as asking whether Henry Fox Talbot's photographs of lace are. Posterity (if any) will be curious about human reactions to the AI juggernaut. Collecting digital art now is like building a ...
