Revisiting Sage Jenson’s Primordium and new Feral File features
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for joining us as we migrated from the traditional newsletter format and Discord community to Substack. Feel free to read, share, and comment on this—we will read everything, and your participation is a critical component of growing the digital art ecosystem.
We’re going to share updates every two weeks, starting now—let us know what you want to see!
First, here are recent changes we’ve made to the Feral File experience:
Animated Dailies (Website and TV Apps)
The Idunnos by Jah. Image courtesy of the artist and Feral File.
Static artworks in a series now animate as slideshows, transitioning between multiple works every five minutes.
Find Artworks for Sale
Find collectible artworks easily and purchase them directly from our “Collect Now” page within the Explore section on FeralFile.com.
filum #100 by Ella Hoeppner. Image courtesy of the artist and Feral File. Available to collect
Dactylogram #51 by David Seven. Image courtesy of the artist and Feral File. Available to collect
Metamosaic #97 by Tyler Boswell. Image courtesy of the artist and Feral File. Available to collect
Streamlined Navigation
The Feral File website is now more intuitive in helping you explore and learn about digital art:
Explore: Browse exhibitions with improved filtering and categorization.
Learn: Deepen your understanding of digital art and blockchain technology.
How to Collect: (Inside Learn) Explore the essentials, from blockchain’s role in artwork authentication to why it’s a powerful tool for artists and institutions.
Throwback: Primordium Exhibition (Opened February 24, 2022)
Embryogenesis by Sage Jenson. Image courtesy of the artist and Feral File.
Curated by symbios.wiki, Primordium was a solo exhibition featuring media artist Sage Jenson’s first web-based work. The exhibition explored emergent digital ecosystems, where code-generated autonomous worlds flourished with potentiality.
Jenson’s work embodies the aesthetics of immanence, where machine-driven systems perpetually evolve. Within these digital landscapes, agents sense, navigate, and modify their surroundings, resulting in mesmerizing emergent behaviors.
Highlighted works included 36 Points, an interactive bio-simulation where the keyboard became an instrument for exploring shifting digital environments, and Embryogenesis, a visual document capturing an unreproducible digital organism.
36 Points #01 by Sage Jenson. Image courtesy of the artist and Feral File.
Revisiting Primordium underscores the evolution of generative digital art, showcasing how artists engage computational systems to create dynamic, self-sustaining ecosystems that blur the boundary between artificial and organic life.
Enjoy it again on the Feral File website, iPhone, and Android app.
Feral File Alumni Updates:
Opened November 24, 2024, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Digital Witness features artists including Feral File co-founder Casey Reas in a landmark exhibition examining the impact of digital manipulation across photography, design, and film. Bringing together more than 150 works spanning four decades of artistic innovation, the show traces the evolution of digital image-making—from early experiments in image editing to today’s sophisticated computational practices. On view through July 13, 2025.
Cure³ brings digital art back, launching February 3rd! Expanding its digital section in support of Parkinson’s research. This year’s edition features works by Feral File alumni Licia He, Piter Pasma, and Aleksandra Jovanić, with Alex Estorick guest curating the digital section.
Feral File artist Entangled Others presents self-contained 009.x at Media Majlis in Qatar, part of Ai or NAY? Artificial vs. Intelligent curated by Jack Thomas Taylor. The exhibition explores AI and human creativity, running from January 15 to May 15, 2025.
Down the Silicon Meadow at Office Impart, curated by Diane Drubay, brings together works that reflect on the intersections of nature and technology. Among the featured artists are Feral File alumni Afroscope, Alexandra Crouwers, Nathaniel Stern, and Yoshi Sodeoka.
Rodell Warner’s World is Turning Tokenized is now live. This long-form generative project transforms Warner’s animated GIF archive into unique, single-edition works that explore digital ownership and transformation.
Back with another update in two weeks.
The Feral File Team