Nick Fudge

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I conceive of my digital artworks as ongoing, atemporal, editable works without end.

Nick Fudge is widely regarded as a pioneer of digital art. His work anticipated concepts now central to digital materialism and media archaeology—fields that continue to influence contemporary media theory. Fudge’s digital art exists as a decades-long, recursive project: a continuously evolving body of work characterized by ongoing editing and iteration. As art theorist An Paenhuysen observed, “In the 1990s, Fudge approached the Internet with a post-Internet mindset, but in the 2010s, the same work also delves into the media archaeology of the 1990s”. In a radical move. Fudge withheld his digital works from exhibition between 1994 and 2015, allowing him to explore emerging technologies free from public scrutiny. Trained as a painter and steeped in Western art history, he approached digital media with a modernist’s attention to material specificity, preserving his works as pure digital files without converting them into physical form.

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