This chapter explains how digital art today feels like a new version of conceptual art. Instead of just sharing ideas, artists are now using 3D software in unexpected ways. These tools were made to create realistic images, but artists are doing the opposite, they are breaking that realism on purpose.For example, artists like Brenna Murphy create objects that don’t fully exist in the real world. They feel fluid, like they could change shape at any moment. What I found interesting is that this kind of art feels like a reaction to how fake and “perfect” media looks today. Instead of trying to look real, it focuses more on ideas and emotions.
Brenna Murphy weaves trans-dimensional labyrinths using personal recording devices, computer graphics programs and digital fabrication. Murphy’s work is an ongoing meditation on the psychedelic composition of embodied experience across physical and virtual realms. Murphy also works collaboratively with Birch Cooper under the collective name MSHR, producing interactive sound installations and ceremonial performances.
Birch Cooper is an American multidisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon, primarily known as the co-founder of the art collective MSHR alongside Brenna Murphy.His work sits at the intersection of sculpture, analog electronics, and performance art. Here’s a breakdown of his career and artistic focus.
Sabrina Ratté is a Canadian artist based in Montreal, who also lived and worked for six years in Paris. Her practice explores the perceptual and material potentials of digital media through 3D animation, analog video, print, and installation. Drawing from technology, philosophical thought and speculative ecology, her work maps liminal zones where relationships between material and virtual worlds are reconfigured. Through immersive and interactive installations, she develops hybrid cosmologies that question the evolution of our environments and the narratives that shape them. Her works evoke possible futures, both sublime and unsettling, in which the organic, the synthetic, and the spectral coexist within a single continuum.
