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capitArt began as a decentralised global art collective in Tokyo in 2015. In 2018, we relocated to Mumbai, and since 2021, we have been based in London.
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At capitArt, we employ art as a political language—one capable of shifting perceptions and reconfiguring how social realities are understood. Guided by philosophy and informed by technology and science, we see art as an active force in navigating the existential crises of the contemporary world.
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We foreground both existing and emerging forms of marginalisation produced by techno-capitalism, understanding artistic practice as a site where power can be exposed, contested, and reimagined. Inclusion, for us, is not the passive acceptance of difference, but a process of transformation with difference—one that alters structures, values, and relations.
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We collaborate with artists, curators, researchers, scientists, designers, philosophers, poets, and thinkers from across the globe who work at the boundaries of art to question what it means to be human today. Our focus spans New Media Art—particularly techno-art—and Art Brut (also known as Outsider or Marginal Art), situating both as critical spaces.
If the meaning of an artwork is never fixed, it is not because it lacks meaning, but because meaning itself is always negotiated. Humans are fundamentally meaning-makers—artists who fabricate value in a world without intrinsic order. To claim authority over the value of art, then, is to exercise power over how life itself is organised. Art criticism is therefore never neutral; it is always political.
capitArt exists to restore pleasure, imagination, and multiplicity—to celebrate forms of creation that escape normative taste, fixed value, and institutional prescription. We believe the potential of artistic creation today exceeds the imagination of those who remain invested in preserving an unstable old world.
Art does not merely reflect reality.
It negotiates it.
It transforms it.
“Why is it that […] horses don’t yet radiate phosphorescent colours over the nocturnal meadows of the land? Why hasn’t the breeding of animals, still principally an economic concern, moved into the realm of aesthetics? Why can’t art inform nature?” Flusser
We stand at the threshold of a cultural transformation shaped by information sciences and biotechnology. As human thought is increasingly channelled into computational systems driven by profit and optimisation, these same technologies also carry the potential to reimagine life, subjectivity, and planetary coexistence.
Technology is never neutral. It reorganises perception, labour, memory, and power. The question is not whether it transforms us, but how and under which values.
Art does not merely respond to these shifts—it intervenes. Techno-art is a political practice: a space where technological power becomes visible, contestable, and re-directed.
capitArt supports artistic practices that resist instrumentalisation, disrupt technological inevitability, and reclaim experimentation as an ethical force. We believe artistic growth must be supported with the same urgency as techno-scientific development—because without it, innovation collapses into extraction and control.
The task of art and philosophy is to shape forms of life interwoven with technology and to reinvent human nature as an ethical and aesthetic process.
Techno-art is not decoration.
It is intervention.
Art Brut, also known as Marginal Art and Outsider Art, comprises creations that emerge at the fringes of society, eluding any definitions that the very society which ostracises them might attempt to impose. Despite this, there is an extensive body of literature on Marginal Art, Art Brut and Outsider Art, replete with futile efforts to define them by those who fail to recognise the value escaping their constrained perspectives. We think the kind of creation in question is political by nature for it represents the artistic expressions of those who are marginalised within techno-capitalism.
Beyond these fruitless attempts to categorise such elusive works, we simply cherish these pieces for their paradoxical presence in the market and their unique creators who inspire us profoundly. They encourage us to believe that a different thought and a different world are possible, for they seem to vibrantly sense the captivating appeal of creation, while most of us become numb in the clamour of our existence.
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