Automat

Automat is a long-running project for collecting, researching and presenting digital art, started in 2026 and framed as a focused collection of works shaped by the digital era. It is not a minting platform but an advisory practice: helping collectors judge where a work sits in the history of the medium, tracing provenance and editions, and only then deciding whether to acquire.

The work runs along three lines. Collecting follows curatorial logic rather than momentum; research assembles archives around artists and works and explains how screens, algorithms and networked environments shape what gets made; presentation puts the collection back into public context through exhibitions and publishing. The reference point is generative art that has entered museum collections, such as Refik Anadol's Unsupervised at MoMA, and the aim is a durable archive rather than a one-off sale.