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Dearest art friends,
July slows down, giving us room to breathe and take stock of where AI and art stand today.
This month, we're diving into that reflection with a new introduction and timeline tracing AI's path from artistic curiosity to cultural force. We're also excited to share a new collaboration with Botto on their first delegation program, opening fresh ways for our members to engage with one of the most exciting AI art projects out there. And behind the scenes, we're hard at work integrating AI into our operations and rolling out AI-assisted services for collectors, quietly revolutionizing art advisory practice.
Enjoy a summer full of art.
The 100 collectors Team
Early Signals
☼ Art and Artificial Intelligence: An Intro & Timeline
What began as a radical experiment is now an established chapter of art history, one still being written. This introduction and timeline traces AI art's arc from the plotter drawings of 1960s pioneers through the GAN era's overlooked masters to today's institutional embrace, including MoMA's acquisition of Refik Anadol's Unsupervised and the opening of DATALAND, the first museum built entirely around AI art. It's a guide to how the field got here, and to the artists worth knowing along the way.
Inside 100 collectors
☼ Rome / 100 collectors at Rome New Media Art Week – Edition Zero
Our first gathering in Rome brought together collectors, artists, and curators during the inaugural edition of Rome New Media Art Week, extending the conversation around digital art into a new cultural context.
☼ Partnership / 100 collectors Members Join the Botto Delegation
A group of members became part of Botto's first collector delegation, taking an active role in one of the most compelling experiments in AI art, where community participation helps shape the artist's evolving practice.
☼ USA / Dead Letter, Sonoma's New Restaurant with a Digital Art Collection [members-only]
West Coast contributor Lisa Kolb takes us inside Dead Letter, Sonoma's highly anticipated restaurant, where food, architecture, and a thoughtfully curated digital art program come together to create a new kind of cultural destination.
☼ Basel / The Collection We Would Have Built Together supported by OpenSea
During Art Basel week, collectors imagined a shared collection through conversation rather than acquisition, revealing how dialogue, taste, and collective thinking shape collecting long before the transaction happens.
Hidden Gem
Yehwan Song
Recommended by our Unlocked podcast guest, Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, curator of Screensavers
"One of the artists I came across was Yehwan Song. I discovered her through Instagram, where she shares these incredible installations. She creates interactive systems and websites alongside physical compositions that together form a single conceptual work. I'm very excited to bring her into the exhibition."
Yehwan Song is a Korean artist whose practice explores the relationship between digital systems, interaction, and physical space. Working across websites, installations, and sculpture, she builds immersive environments where the virtual and the tangible become inseparable. Her work has been presented internationally, including representing Korea at the Venice Biennale, and she continues to expand how digital art can exist both on and beyond the screen.
On Our Radar in July
☼ Ana Maria Caballero at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York
☼ Digital Art Summit 2026 Talk Recording Now Available
☼ Sasha Stiles at Palazzo Citterio in Milan
☼ Montreal-based non-profit and collective-curated exhibition RGB MTL fundraiser on Objkt
☼ NEW TRUTH / 新・真実 by Kevin Abosch × Richard Pleuger at NEORT++ Gallery in Tokyo, Japan
☼ Operator’s artist performances in both Venice and Avignon
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