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MoMA Announces Groundbreaking New Digital Art Acquisitions, Exhibitions, and Artist Collaborations

The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art announces an innovative slate of Fall 2023–Winter 2024 acquisitions, exhibitions, and artist collaborations that encourage new thinking about human and machine intelligence, creativity, and the potential of art and technology to reshape our physical and digital worlds. Acquisitions of works by Refik Anadol and Ian Cheng, the presentation of a large-scale video by Leslie Thornton, and a new online exhibition organized by MoMA and Feral File—with artists including Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, Yoko Ono, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, and 0xDEAFBEEF—are supported by a strong foundation of related research, commissions, publications, and exhibitions involving digital or computer-generated art. Historical MoMA exhibitions including The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age (1968); Information (1970); Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989 (2017); New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century (2019); Philippe Parreno’s Echo (2019); Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design (2022); Signals: How Video Transformed the World (2023); recent collection installations of JODI’s My%Desktop (2002) and Eduardo Kac’s Reabracadabra (1985); plus more than a decade of MoMA R&D programs and the blockchain projects MoMA Memento and MoMA Postcard provide a rich context for the Museum’s new initiatives. Building on this longstanding commitment, MoMA continues to support artists who experiment with emerging technologies to expand their visual vocabularies and creative exploration, increase the impact of their work, and help us understand and navigate transformative change in the world.

The presentations of Refik Anadol, Unsupervised and Leslie Thornton, HANDMADE at MoMA have been made possible by Hyundai Card.

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Sample data visualization, Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations — MoMA, 2022. Data sculpture: custom software, generative algorithm with artificial intelligence (AI), real time digital animation on LED screen, sound. Dimensions variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © Refik Anadol Studio

Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations — MoMA, 2022. Installation view, Refik Anadol: Unsupervised, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 19, 2022 – October 29, 2023. Photo: Refik Anadol Studio

Ian Cheng. 3FACE. 2022. Digital image (generative, interactive). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Outland Art