The art world can’t stop talking about digital art right now, following Christies’s infamous auction of NFTs that saw a glorified certificate of authenticity sell for $69 million. Digital art, however, has a long history and isn’t necessarily associated with crypto technology like NFTs. Three shows up now in New York pay homage to digital art’s place in the historical canon and offer a variety of approaches to displaying it in a gallery setting, occupying physical space as well as virtual reality.

Galerie Manqué has relaunched with a revival of NO BODY, a four-person group show that examines the fragmentation and technological augmentation of the human body.

Videogames can be a great way to pass time while quarantined at home. For artist, writer, and activist John Sims, the quarantine has provided the time and space to not just play games, but to create one that speaks to the collective anxiety we’ve all experienced while hiding from this invisible enemy.

Some people have used the quarantine’s isolation as an opportunity to slow down and unwind. Ruben Natal-San Miguel isn’t one of those people: the Harlem-based photographer’s artistic output remains as prolific as ever despite everything that’s going on in the world.

Social distancing guidelines have changed how we navigate in public. Our personal boundaries have exploded outward from our bodies, and walking past someone on the sidewalk has changed from a forgettable encounter to a breach of personal space. “Too close”, a limit previously measured in inches or feet for most of us, is now measured with a yardstick, preferably two of them if someone isn’t masked up.

For many of us who share our homes with animals, the quarantine has provided a chance to spend more time with our companions. For artist Julia Oldham, her connection with rescue Pomeranian Woodrow goes back much further than the shelter-in-place order.