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This is a very interesting addition to the discussion. The digital art world and the demoscene sometimes briefly met, but I assume that most of the time its members look down on eachother.

An interesting artist in this respect is Karl Sims [1]. As far as I know, he was not involved in the demoscene, but he sure did make some interesting things!

[1] https://www.karlsims.com/

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From the little exposure I've had of the digital art world (I assume you mean high art as in fancy galleries and such) is that it's much more fad driven. One year the "it" thing is interaction, and so everyone rushes to do that. Then it's AI, so people rush to be the first to publish a book written by AI or whatever.

Say what you will about the current demoscene stylistically, it is to this day an underground, non-commercial movement (maybe countercultural? labels don't really matter, I'm just trying to gesture at something). People make stuff for the hell of it, with themselves as the target audience. It's hard to beat the sheer joy of that.

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