The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation began supporting the field of Digital Art in 2009. Our collection has grown to include over 400 artworks by more than 138 artists, representing a global history of the medium from 1959 to the present.
The Thoma Foundation’s core collection of Digital Art highlights the specific achievements of modern computers—their processing speed, infinite data capacity, imaging precision, and virtual networking—to aid artists.
Media Art signifies our support of art created with both pioneering and emerging time-based technologies, especially in relation to electronic mass media—the news and photojournalism, film and television, video games, social media, and other cultural experiences produced by communications technology.
We have a focused interest in artists whose innovative use of digital tools enables greater creative expression and cultural insight. From this perspective, the Foundation supports and celebrates Digital & Media Art as a distinct field of contemporary art that is uniquely equipped to strengthen our shared values of social connectivity, personal autonomy, visual impact and information access amongst other creative possibilities that have the ability effect change. Our collecting strategy evolves in response to the evolution of both the digital and contemporary cultural landscape.
A selection of artwork from our collection can be seen below.
