My Opinion:
Art Basel's 0 10 presentation takes digital serious art to a discussion which validates the use of integrating newer methods for producing creative vision. Earlier Renaissance painters used concave mirrors and camera obscuras to project images onto surfaces. This execution of realism unknown in art prior to the 1500's was also a significant departure from the conventional processes in use during that time. Abrupt leaps into change in visually accepted process before the techniques are mainstream seen in impressionism, abstraction, and other motifs historically, Ray Johnson was a leader in creating fax art. His vision was explained dropping by my house at 7:30 AM knock to describe why Fax was a step forward using art as a new process for communication in image in the late 1970's. The change Ray proposed was dramatic at the time.
The artists who recognize the serious possibilities for innovative change is presented by Art Basel 0 10. This topic is worth the review. Some will embrace it others reject the change. I see the need to use all tools for creative expression artistically in a newer digital era. With an open mind, Jamie Forbes, Publisher, Fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com, sunstormfienartmagazine.com
Now in its third edition, Art Basel’s global initiative dedicated to art of the digital era will debut at Art Basel 2026 with its largest presentation to date, featuring 20 exhibitors and a compelling selection of artists at the forefront of digital artistic practices, including Hito Steyerl, Andreas Gursky, and Avery Singer.
Zero 10 marks its European debut with award-winning artist Trevor Paglen joining as curator alongside digital art strategist Eli Scheinman.
Located in the Event Hall on Messeplatz, Zero 10 will be accessible to the public for free during the week of Art Basel 2026 from June 17–21, with a Preview Day taking place on June 16. |
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| Bridging contemporary and historical discourses | Across Zero 10, artists examine the intersection of technological evolution and global systems, from John Gerrard’s real-time simulations at Fellowship, to Avery Singer’s Shit Coin Maxi at Hauser & Wirth. Hito Steyerl’s Green Screen, presented by Esther Schipper and Andrew Kreps, stages a dialogue between plant life and AI-generated imagery, while Andreas Gursky’s Ocean V at Sprüth Magers expands the field further, transforming satellite imagery into vast, abstracted cartographies that reflect the scale and complexity of contemporary life.
Don't miss Asprey Studio’s Matter and Signal by DEAFBEEF, centred on the interactive sculpture Glitchbox, alongside a focused presentation of Vera Molnar by Interface Gallery and Oniris.art. Further explorations of generative systems emerge with Leander Herzog’s Infinite Garden and Andreas Gysin’sMeltdown at Nguyen Wahed, as well as Aziza Kadyri’s A Borrowed Hand at eastcontemporary, where textile traditions meet AI-driven reinterpretation. |
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| A co-curational dialogue | Eli Scheinman, returning for his third edition of Zero 10, is joined by MacArthur Fellow, 2026 LG Guggenheim Award recipient, artist, and researcher Trevor Paglen.
Co-curated under the theme The Condition, the Basel edition examines life in a world saturated by digital imagery, computational systems and artificial intelligence, bringing together historical and contemporary voices across digital, generative, and media art.
“Looking across the last 50 years of instruction-based and computational work, from postwar experimentalism through today’s generative practices, I see a continuous thread: a body of work that understands the digital as a medium with its own properties, possibilities, and demands. The showcase becomes an intergenerational conversation about what it means to be alive in the digital era, led by artists who were thinking seriously about these questions long before the rest of the world caught up.” — Trevor Paglen, Co-curator, Zero 10, Art Basel 2026. |
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