5 Digital Art Trends to Expect in 2020
By Elena Zavelev on Observer
The year 2019 showed that the contemporary digital art market, while still in its infancy, has substantial potential for growth. In 2019, new media art was frequently shown at contemporary art museums worldwide, including Nam June Paik’s show at Tate Modern, the exhibition “The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics” at New Museum and MoMA’s “Surrounds” show of 11 contemporary installations. Artificial Intelligence (AI) art was a key point of discussion at Christie’s Art+Tech Summit in New York as well at Kate Vass Gallery’s show in Zurich this summer. This all in the same year that Pace Galleryannounced the launch of PaceX, a new initiative to promote projects that unite art and technology. It was also the year that we at the New Art Academy launched CADAF, an art fair dedicated entirely to digital art, with two successful editions—one in New York and one in Miami. At both these events, collector interest served to further illustrate the growing desire for various digital art mediums including Artificial Intelligence and Augmented/Virtual reality works. Now, with CADAF’s Miami edition under the belt, I’d like to take a look into 2020 and touch upon the trends that, in my opinion, will dominate the market in the next year.