Shanti Escalante

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

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

Creatives across fields view generative AI as an axe held by management to eliminate jobs and cut rates. Artists are hoping it doesn't have to be.

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.

The plan? To steal the number one spot on the Billboard music charts using the power of the internet. All it would take was convincing 100,000 people to be in a band together.

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.

In the beginning, there was a lot of work to do. In the Mesopotamian creation myth , the Anunnaki, the Big Gods, and the Igigi, the Little

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

Every time a tech company promotes an emerging technology like AI or the metaverse, the pitch sounds the same: a promise to “unleash” the imagination, or a new “immersive world.”