Feral File provides a digital‑art system that lets creators, curators, and collectors organize, exhibit, and preserve digital artworks. Its modular tools support living collections, curated shows, and archival workflows, enabling seamless stewardship of pieces like Casey REAS’s Ex Nihilo and Manolo Gamboa Naon’s uneasy dream. The platform is designed for ongoing management of digital art assets across exhibitions and long‑term storage.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Digital artworks often lack standardized tools for long-term management, exhibition, and preservation, making it difficult for creators, collectors, and institutions to maintain accessibility and relevance as technology evolves.
Solution
Feral File offers the DigitalArt System, a modular platform that enables stakeholders to organize, display, and archive digital artworks throughout their lifecycle. The system provides curated exhibition capabilities, collection stewardship tools, and an archival framework that integrate works into dynamic digital environments. By using flexible instrumentation, users can adapt the presentation and preservation of pieces to changing formats and platforms, ensuring ongoing accessibility and contextual relevance. The platform supports both individual creators and institutional collections, facilitating consistent management and public engagement with digital art.
Target Audience
Primary users are digital artists, art collectors, museums, and cultural institutions that need robust tools to exhibit, steward, and archive digital artworks.
Features
- Modular toolset for creating, curating, and managing digital art exhibitions
- Collection management dashboard for tracking provenance, metadata, and ownership
- Archival framework that preserves artworks against format obsolescence
- Integration of high-resolution media assets for immersive, living digital displays
- Support for both individual artists and institutional repositories