Artribune's Best of Digital Art 2023: AI, VR, and New Media

Artribune's roundup of 2023's digital art highlights features five artists pushing boundaries with AI, VR, and gaming aesthetics. LuYang (China, 1984), winner of the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year, presented DOKU Experience Center at MUDEC Milan, exploring reincarnation through a gender-neutral avatar across six Samsara realms. Celine Daemen (Netherlands, 1995) won Best Experience at Venice Immersive Island 2023 for Songs for a Passerby, a VR meditation on physical and metaphysical connection. Italian collective fuse* (Modena) created Onirica at Fondazione Peruzzo Padova, using AI to visualize 800 dreams from Dream Banks at University of Bologna and UC Santa Cruz. WangShui (USA, 1986), named to TIME100 Next 2023, integrates generative adversarial networks into painting to explore identity and invisibility. Federica di Pietrantonio (Rome) earned an honorable mention at VDA Award 2023, was a finalist in Re:Humanism Rome and VISIO-European Programme in Florence, and completed a residency at SODA Manchester with Quadriennale di Roma, drawing on gaming subcultures and internet aesthetics.