Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film examines the impact of digital manipulation tools from the 1980s to today. For the first time, it assesses simultaneous developments and debates in the fields of photography, graphic design and visual effects.

Featuring over 150 works, the exhibition traces the emergence of distinctive digital aesthetic strategies, relationships to realism and storytelling modes. The nearly 200 artists, designers and makers in Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film illuminate today’s visual culture where digital editing tools are easier to access than ever before. The ease with which images and text can be digitally generated and altered has enabled new forms of creative experimentation. At the same time, it sparks philosophical debates about the very nature of representation.