Editorials

Kevin Buist attended Art Basel Miami Beach’s Zero 10 to observe digital art's shape and vibe post-NFT boom. In part two in a two-part series, Buist looks beyond the headline spectacle to the works that treated the fair itself as a medium—interactivity, systems and the shifting terms of ownership on view. Part One centered on Beeple’s Regular Animals and its crowd-drawing theater.

Kevin Buist attended Art Basel Miami Beach’s Zero 10 to observe digital art's shape and vibe post-NFT boom. Along the way, he found himself unexpectedly captivated by Beeple’s Regular Animals. This is part one from Buist in a two-part series about Zero 10, the new initiative at Art Basel Miami Beach focused on digital art.

Le Random asked twelve trusted artists, curators and collectors to choose the single artwork that mattered most to them this year. We present a brief text by our editor in chief Peter Bauman below before revealing the choices by Christiane Paul, Sasha Stiles, Raoul Pal, Melanie Lenz, Erick Calderon (Snowfro), Cozomo de’ Medici, Maya Man, Dmitri Cherniak, Luba Elliott, Redbeard, Tyler Hobbs and Conrad House.

Multidisciplinary artist-couple Mika Ben Amar and Brennan Wojtyla have been quietly creating works that span much of the current discourse surrounding the internet‍ and technology as we know it. Their work is presented across a multitude of mediums, with Mika working primarily in digital and sculpture. Brennan stages interventions in games as well as installations. In conversation through email, a medium that felt fitting given the artists' use of email domains as art, the duo tell artist and writer Lowbie what they’ve been up to online and IRL recently.

Mike Winkelmann (Beeple) speaks with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) about his robot-dog “living sculpture,” Regular Animals, at Art Basel Miami Beach’s Zero 10. They also cover digital art’s institutionalization, Beeple’s Charleston studio as a public lab, and why AI feels like an alien poised to transform society.

Eli Scheinman, inaugural curator of Art Basel’s Zero 10—a 1,000-square-meter space dedicated to digital art at Art Basel Miami Beach—speaks with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony). They discuss how Zero 10 marks a long-term commitment to making digital art legible to all collectors, while amplifying the ecosystem’s own norms, histories and eccentricities.