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Angelo Sotira Wants to Set the Standard for Displaying Code-Based Art
“At Layer’s core is a mission to solve one of the biggest challenges to generative art appreciation: its presentation. Code-based generative works—e.g., Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised, part of MoMA’s permanent collection—evolve continuously, responding to data, time of day or user interaction. While the marketplace is increasingly populated with digital art frames, from Samsung’s Frame TV to Meural’s Canvas and Muse Frame, Layer is making an unapologetic appeal to the top of the market at $22,000. ”
July 7, 2025
A New Canvas, a Narrower Frame: Inside Digital Art’s Luxury Makeover
“Sotira is still a profound technical expert, rattling off details about the Layer Canvas’s ultra-resolution, GPU-powered display. He talks about creativity like energy in need of a proper container. To him, the Layer Canvas is proof that digital art is finally maturing into a collectible medium worthy of the private fine art market beyond crypto enthusiasts (but not exclusing the crypto enthusiasts who now make up a non-insignificant portion of gallery sales).”
June 20, 2025
The founder of DeviantArt is making a $22,000 display for digital art
“Angelo Sotira started the online digital art platform DeviantArt when he was just a teenager, growing a formative community for millions of artists in the 2000s. Twenty-five years later, Sotira wants to change digital art again, but with a focus on the way it’s displayed.”
June 5, 2025