Shanti Escalante-De Mattei

Mindy Seu has a new perfomance tour that questions the financial entanglements that underpin both sex and the internet.

Girl with pitbull, bands of cash. The radiance of heaven. Being a teen. Gummy, chewy, delicious. Pink. Meme. Foucault and the way Foucault writes.

For this end-of-year edition of LinkRot, I asked artists, curators, critics, and technologists to pick the best works of digital art they saw in 2025.

At first glance, Nancy Burson's “Quantum Entanglement” paintings appear simply as white dots washing over black canvases in clusters and waves.

The performance-lecture has become an increasingly popular medium that contemporary artists have taken on with a great deal of success.

Earlier this month, Dr. Michael Rao, president of Virginia Commonwealth University, made a bold statement: it's time to move “beyond” the educational

Editor's note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot , a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet.