Digital

Selected work.

Novak’s engagement with digital art spans three decades and has consistently focused on experimentation with emerging technologies. From the mid-1990’s through to 2000, his practice centred on web-based and CD-ROM artworks, followed by Macromedia Flash in the early 2000’s and early explorations of virtual reality in 2005. In 2012, Novak began working with augmented reality in public contexts, presenting projects at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2013) and Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2017). His later work has engaged directly with machine learning, beginning with Generative Adversarial Networks in 2019, expanding into generative AI from 2021, and culminating in formal exhibitions at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (2022) and Stanford University (2025). In 2022, Novak also founded Velebit, a project aimed at strengthening safety in relationships between communities at heightened risk and digital environments shaped by emerging technologies.