Digital Art Mile has announced its 2025 program
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“The event shattered the conventions of digital art” – Artnet
Back for it’s second year, with humanoid robots, historic drawing machines, autonomous AI agents, early computer art from the 1960s and a pioneering digital painting tool that revolutionized broadcasting and the MTV era provide a brilliant art experience in Basel, where first class art meets latest technologies.
Experts from all over the world, leading galleries and platforms in the field of digital art and museum curators meet in Basel at the world’s most important fair for digital art.
"The Digital Art Mile," organized by ArtMeta, is a landmark event set to transform Basel's historic Rebgasse during Art Basel from June 16 -22, 2025 offering an art fair, a curated exhibition as well as a one-week conference program.
PAINTBOXED
As part of the Paintboxed - Tezos World Tour, a series of events that travelled across Miami, Paris, and New York; ArtMeta, Objkt, and the Tezos Foundation are proud to bring the groundbreaking exhibition “Paintboxed” to Basel, showcasing leading digital artists and the rich history of one of the first digital painting devices in the history of digital art.
The Paintboxed show will feature contemporary artists such as Grant Yun, Bryan Brinkman, Justin Aversano and Ivona Tau, who have been creating new work on an original Quantel Paintbox lent by Paintboxed co-curator and Quantel historian Adrian Wilson, as part of Paintboxed - Tezos World Tour. The works will be presented as physical lightboxes for sale, paired with NFTs minted on the Tezos blockchain, and will be available on Objkt, the leading platform for digital art.
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DIGITAL ART FAIR
Free entry for all.
Kate Vass Galerie will present “Iconoclast”, a solo program by Nigerian digital artist Osinachi. The selection spans from early to most recent digital paintings (2019-2025), as well as a special project “Forgotten Relics” – series created during the artist residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy in 2025.
LaCollection – renowned for their collaborations with institutions such as the British Museum and Monnaie de Paris – will show a solo exhibition with a new series of generative artist Tyler Hobbs, well-known for “Fidenza”.
Mayor Gallery will present a tribute to the 100th anniversary of Waldemar Cordeiro, who is widely regarded as the father of digital art in South America. He was the founder of “Ruptura” art movement in Brazil and a frequent participant at the “New Tendencies” in Zagreb. The gallery will present some of the most iconic artworks executed in the late 1960s in collaboration with Jorge Moscati on a IBM 360/44 computer at the University of Sao Paulo.
Bright Moments from San Francisco is showing a group exhibition “Automata”, focusing on the evolution of robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous AI agents.
Objkt is also presenting the group show “We Emotional Cyborgs: On Avatars and AI Agents”, curated by Anika Meier (The Second-Guess), explores how these virtual entities serve not only as reflections of our desires but also as agents that challenge our notions of identity amidst the collapse of trust and truth.
One of the panel discussions at the Digital Art Mile. Courtesy Diane Drubay
CONFERENCES
The digital art fair will be accompanied by a series of conferences held at Kult.Kino Cinema at Rebgasse 1 throughout the week. Esteemed speakers include Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art at Whitney Museum of American Art; Ian Charles Steward, Director of Toledo Museum of Art Laboratories; Sebastien Borget, COO and Co-Founder of The Sandbox; Mr. Prof. Dr. Thomas Girst, Global Head of Cultural Engagement at BMW.
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ABOUT
"The Digital Art Mile" was initiated by Georg Bak and Roger Haas, two leading experts in the field of digital art and web3. Powered by Tezos, in partnership with Tezos foundation.
Georg Bak is renowned for his groundbreaking work in exhibiting digital art, NFTs, and generative photography, being one of the pioneers in the evolution of the NFT market.
Roger Haas is the founder of ArtMeta and co-creator of the Paintboxed - Tezos World Tour. His work focuses on the intersection of technology and creativity, contributing to the ongoing development of how art is made, presented, and experienced. With ArtMeta’s initiative, The Digital Art Mile, he has helped build a platform that brings together new generations of artists and audiences.