Is gaming a sub-part of digital art? It is hard not to think so... Video games exist primarily in the digital realm, using the same tools, platforms, and technologies to create immersive experiences. Game designers and developers work together to craft worlds, characters, and experiences, much like filmmakers or painters would do. Video-games might even have a step ahead - they are, in essence, interactive.

France is one of the leading countries in Europe for digital art and Web3. By celebrating the creativity and contributions of French artists in digital media and techniques, France continues to establish itself as a leader on issues related to the intersection between art and technology. In this collection, a large diversity of techniques - such as generative art made with code, video, 3D, and digital collage - demonstrates the vast and profound nature of France's commitment to the development of this sector.

This collection delves into a swinging topic: dancing, a timeless art form that transcends boundaries and takes us on a journey beyond ourselves. Through the ingenious fusion of dance, music and technology, digital artists create mesmerising visual effects that defy the limitations of the human body. From glitch art to interactive visuals, they explore the boundless potential of new technologies, amplifying the emotions evoked by human movement. Experimenting with colours and textures, artists allow algorithms to become co-choreographers, blurring the lines between physicality and imagination. Let’s experience the power of dance through the lens of the digital era!

The question of the cohabitation between humanity, nature and technology in the present and future era is a subject that many digital artists address in their practice. As our lives become increasingly digital, the question of the human impact of these developments on the environment, the migration to a digital rather than a natural world, or the imagining of alternative universes where the world is in a utopian state of harmony between nature and its inhabitants becomes the central topic for many artists.

The art of sculpture is above all a history of techniques. Modelling, cutting, casting, drawing, depending on how the earth, metal, wood or stone is worked...
But by practising sculpture in a virtual space, artists open up a new world of possibilities. Both the material and the techniques used to do so are freed from the prosaic considerations of reality: gravity, temperature, fragility... and give free rein to their imagination to create impossible statues with strange properties, such as malleability.
However, digital sculpting is not as radical a break with the history of sculpture as one might think: on the contrary, we observe among many digital sculptors a renewed interest for its past and especially for ancient sculpture, which continues inspire artists over centuries.

Ah, love… can we still talk about it without repeating what the greatest authors in history wrote much better than us ? Yes, of course, because even though love might be the most universal experience of all, it’s also the most singular. Each love, each love story, each love language is unique - therefore the topic is boundless, and has steadfastly gone through art history since neolithic paintings. Nowadays, digital tools allow artists to reinvent it and rethink once again its modes of representation ; but they also allow them to question how the modern era, especially technology itself, has transformed our relationships…

Digital surrealism brings to life the dreams of these artists, heirs to Dalí, Magritte and Ernst. They harness digital tools to transcend the limits of the imagination, creating works that blend their dream world even more closely with reality.

What does music look like? Although many artists throughout the history of art have drawn directly from this intangible creative expression to create their works, capturing the sentimental and rhythmic notions of music is a challenge. Digital art offers a unique opportunity to rectify this dilemma, as artists incorporate the sound waves and decibels of music directly into the code they use to create generative artworks. Elsewhere, artists are taking the creative spirit of music and rendering it directly into figurative works, conveying the emotional magic that music can create.

When it comes to art created by artificial intelligence, who is the true creator - the artist or the machine? As AI is slowly creeping into our daily lives, digital artists have also addressed the subject of the boundaries between humans and machines through their creations. For some artists, AI is a new tool for experimentation, allowing them to push the limits of creation even further. Other artists focus on the aesthetic power of the machine: can an algorithm, once it is diverted from its practical function, trigger a human emotion?

Before the virtual became supreme, the mechanical reigned. Once the ultimate symbol of modernity, mechanics embodied the hopes of the industrial age: precision, control, and mastery over matter. It marked a first break from our natural selves — fully removed from the fluid, imprecise, and unpredictable rhythms of the organic. But today, in a dematerialized era where algorithms shape reality and where everything leans toward the intangible and the virtual, the mechanical feels almost retrofuturistic. It is no longer the future — but it doesn’t quite belong to the past either.

Mechanics now occupies a strange in-between: alien to the digital, detached from the organic. Neither alive nor immaterial, it forms a visual universe entirely its own — cold, physical, and exact. And it is precisely this otherness, this detachment from both nature and code, that draws contemporary artists back to it. In this collection, they explore and reinvent the aesthetic language of loops, gears, and relentless motion. What happens to the machine once its industrial, innovative function fades — when it no longer drives progress, but instead becomes an object of contemplation?