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AI Art Digest circulates directly by email to a curated international audience of more than 7,400 recipients, including over 4,000 museum directors, nearly 2,900 contemporary art gallery directors, more than 400 generative artists, and selected art collectors.

AI Art Digest is a curatorial platform directed by Vito Di Bari, focused on the artists, images, and ideas shaping the field of AI art. It brings a human-scale and art-historical reading to generative image culture, with a focus on works that deserve lasting attention from curators, institutions, collectors, and the broader contemporary art conversation.

Latest Issue

AI Art Digest – Issue n.17 (August 5th, 2026)

Co-Creating with Other Intelligences: From Living Systems to Generative AI

This is not a home in the human sense of the word: it is armor, camouflage and ballast at once.

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Archive of Issues

AI Art Digest – Issue n.16 (June 30th, 2026)

When Art Grows Legs: Beeple’s Regular Animals and the robotic body of generative art

Why these animals are not regulars? This is not an abstract question.

AI Art Digest — Issue n.15 (May 20th, 2026)

The Museum That Dreams Back: DATALAND and the Birth of the AI-Native Museum

Why Machine Dreams: Rainforest Matters Before It Even Opens?

AI Art Digest — Issue n.14 (April 23rd, 2026)

Food as Paradox. From Dalí to the Generative Image

There comes a moment when food remains perfectly recognizable, yet stops behaving like food.

AI Art Digest — Issue n.13 (April 16th, 2026)

Still Life as Laboratory. Food, Matter, and Meaning from Caravaggio to the Generative Image

Food is no longer only something to be eaten, displayed, or symbolically placed beside the body. It becomes the body.

AI Art Digest — Issue n.12 (April 9th, 2026)

Still Life as Laboratory. Food, Matter, and Meaning from Caravaggio to the Generative Image

That shift matters. Before any theological or allegorical reading, Caravaggio does something radical: he grants the humble materials of everyday life full pictorial dignity. Food no longer serves another story. It becomes the story.

AI Art Digest — Issue n.11 (April 2nd, 2026)

Three Phases of AI Art. A Curatorial Reflection: From Technological Spectacle to Artistic Language

How does a new artistic technology evolve culturally?

AI Art Digest — Issue n.10 (March 26th, 2026)

Beyond the Machine Artist: Signals of a Second Phase in AI Art

In a contemporary art auction, the question is never simply what a work is worth. The more interesting question is which cultural story the market is willing to believe.

AI Art Digest — Issue n.9 (March 19th, 2026)

The Algorithm King Has No Clothes: Spectacle, Robotics and the Early Misreadings of AI Art

What happens when a machine enters the symbolic space of art?

AI Art Digest — Issue n.8 (February 4th, 2026)

Claire Silver, The Unstable Portrait.

When an AI soul is trapped in a portrait, does it want to be seen or released?

AI Art Digest — Issue n.7 (January 28th, 2026)

Ayoung Kim’s “Delivery Dancer Codex” at MoMA PS1 (New York)

When a computational infrastructure dictates timing, routes, and visibility, what remains and what changes of authorship?

AI Art Digest — Issue n.6 (January 21st, 2026)

Chronicles of Hyperfemininity: Emi Kusano and the Algorithm of Nostalgia

What happens when an artist asks a generative system to remember the past, unlearn the future, and render it through nostalgia-tinged femininity?

AI Art Digest — Issue n.5 (January 14th, 2026)

Enchanted Grounds: Symbolist AI Landscapes Between Inner Worlds and Collective Memory

In Enchanted Grounds, landscape is not merely a place, but a symptom. This project brings together artists who use AI to conjure unusual, metaphorical, dreamlike landscapes—artworks that function as emotional maps of inner geography.

AI Art Digest — Issue n.4 (January 7th, 2026)

A Transitional Giant: Refik Anadol and the Sublime Screensaver.

When data becomes a cathedral and the screen behaves like a public square, does this work belong to the history of painting or to the history of infrastructure? Or to something in between?

AI Art Digest — Issue n.3 (December 16th, 2025)

Nettrice R. Gaskins and the Emotional Resonance of AI Portraiture

What if a portrait didn’t just represent someone, but remembered them?

AI Art Digest – Issue n.2 (December 9th, 2025)

The Poetics of Pattern: Sofia Crespo’s Algorithmic Natural History

When the natural history archive starts dreaming

AI Art Digest — Issue n.1 (December 2nd, 2025)

Sougwen Chung and the Ritual Intelligence of Machines

When robots remember the hand that taught them

About the Curator

Vito Di Bari — Curatorial Director, AI Art Digest

Vito Di Bari’s curatorial work on AI art is informed by a longer trajectory across culture, innovation, public art, and international institutions. He served as Executive Director of the International Multimedia Institute (IMI) at UNESCO and as Innovation Designer for Milan’s Expo 2015. He has published fourteen books, was a columnist for WIRED, and served on the Scientific Committee of Harvard Business Review Italia.

Contact

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