Shanti Escalante

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A Guerrilla Artist's Latest Project? Game the Billboard Charts With an Album Made by 100,000 People

By: Shanti Escalante

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.

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The Best Digital Art of 2025, According to Curators, Artists, and Critics

By: Shanti Escalante-De Mattei

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.

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The New Museum's ‘New Humans' Reckons With Human-Machine Relations in the Workplace

By: Shanti Escalante

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

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Digital Art Pioneer Nancy Burson Collapses the Border Between Mysticism and Quantum Physics

By: Shanti Escalante

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

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In Performance Series, Artists Tackle the Nature of Images, and Reality, in the Face of AI

By: Shanti Escalante

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.”

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IM Youngzoo's ‘The Late' Blends a 1,254-Page Research Book and a 7-Channel Video Into a Meditation on Belief and Technology

By: Shanti Escalante

It's hot out and the sun must be at its zenith because you can spot a woman's shadow against the parched asphalt as she walks down the street.

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At the Art + Tech Summit, Christie's Pins Its Future on AI Billionaires Who Aren't Buying Art… Yet

By: Shanti Escalante

“We are in a historic moment in wealth creation,” said CNBC wealth reporter Robert Frank at the keynote presentation of the 2026 edition of the

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At Venice's Palazzo Cavanis, VCUarts Qatar Rethinks How Art and Tech Is Taught

By: Shanti Escalante

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

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In ‘Strange Rules,' an Epic Show with a Bold Vision For What Counts as Art

By: Shanti Escalante

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.

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Net.Art Pioneer Olia Lialina on the Practice of Preservation

By: Shanti Escalante

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