Digital artists were right all along, says Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen | Art Basel | 21st May 2026
Paglen, a notable digital artist, observes that “artists make art out of the stuff around them”. Currently that means digital stuff! Forget the NFT craze, digital art deserves “serious attention”. Digital art has the challenge of communicating the meaning of images that are made by machines. Further, does it matter that such images cannot really be “owned”. So far, such questions are unanswered. Perhaps this explains why the response of art writers to this type of work seems a bit ho-hum.