Emerged 2015 active
Visual culture emerging from generative AI tools, encompassing machine learning-produced imagery and the surrounding debates over authorship, creativity, and artistic labor
Mediums:generative imagerydigital artvideo+1more
Key Characteristics:prompt-based creationalgorithmic aestheticsauthorship debates+1more
Emerged 2006 active
Art and visual culture created in awareness of the network, reflecting on digital mediation, online identity, and the dissolution of boundaries between physical and virtual experience
Mediums:digital artinstallationphotography+2more
Key Characteristics:network awarenessdigital-physical blurringidentity performance+1more
Emerged 2010 evolved
Microgenre and visual aesthetic characterized by nostalgic appropriation of 1980s and 1990s commercial imagery, early internet graphics, and Japanese design elements as commentary on consumer capitalism
Mediums:musicdigital artgraphic design+1more
Key Characteristics:retro-futurismconsumer nostalgiaglitch aesthetics+1more