Editorials

Multidisciplinary artist-couple Mika Ben Amar and Brennan Wojtyla have been quietly creating works that span much of the current discourse surrounding the internet‍ and technology as we know it. Their work is presented across a multitude of mediums, with Mika working primarily in digital and sculpture. Brennan stages interventions in games as well as installations. In conversation through email, a medium that felt fitting given the artists' use of email domains as art, the duo tell artist and writer Lowbie what they’ve been up to online and IRL recently.

Mike Winkelmann (Beeple) speaks with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) about his robot-dog “living sculpture,” Regular Animals, at Art Basel Miami Beach’s Zero 10. They also cover digital art’s institutionalization, Beeple’s Charleston studio as a public lab, and why AI feels like an alien poised to transform society.

Eli Scheinman, inaugural curator of Art Basel’s Zero 10—a 1,000-square-meter space dedicated to digital art at Art Basel Miami Beach—speaks with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony). They discuss how Zero 10 marks a long-term commitment to making digital art legible to all collectors, while amplifying the ecosystem’s own norms, histories and eccentricities.

Artist duo Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst spoke with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) about their major new work Starmirror at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, on view until January 18, 2026. They discuss the work within the larger context of protocols as worlds, AI’s impact on public space, and the blurring line between artists and scientists.

Artists and engineers Karl Sims and Alexander Mordvintsev speak about the potential of artificial life (A-Life) and creativity with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony). They discuss A-Life as a bridge between technology and biology, from Sims’s early work with the legendary Connection Machine and Evolved Virtual Creatures to Mordvintsev’s seminal DeepDream.

In this written form of the conversation, deep learning engineer and generative adversarial network (GAN) inventor Ian Goodfellow speaks with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) in depth about the legendary origins of GANs, their unexpected success and indelible impact on both twenty-first-century image making and AI research. The full audio form of the conversation is now available below.