Editor’s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a bi-weekly column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet.
It’s the end of the year. You know what that means: a list. For this end-of-year edition of LinkRot, I asked artists, curators, gallerists, critics, and technologists to pick the best works of digital art they saw in 2025.
The works chosen, like digital art itself, span a wide range of approaches and topics of inquiry, from American Artist’s video examination of streamer culture in Crash Out (2025) to Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley’s fully immersive installation THE DELUSION, which uses video game aesthetics to interrogate our deeply weird and unsettling relationship to technology.
To keep things fair, I asked that my guest critics not select works or exhibitions by artists they work with.
