"10 Digital Art Specialists Share Their Top Picks for Outstanding Digital Artwork"
The Digital Art Mile-Basel's digital art fair, now in its second edition, opened its doors at Basel's underground Kult Kino Camera cinema on Monday and will run through Sunday. The event, which features a series of panels and conferences on the health and future of the digital art market, alongside the headline exhibition "Paintboxed," attracted digital collectors and curators eager to discuss their favourite works and expound on the decades-long history of digital art.
One of the highlights of the exhibition is Gazers 200 by Matt Kane, a digital artwork that functions as a lunar calendar, algorithmically syncing with the moon's real-life phases. Leila Khazaneh, a digital art collector and founder of the Association for Women in Cryptocurrency, considers it one of the first digital artworks in her collection.
Another notable work is Monogrid 90 (2021) by Kim Asendorf, a digital artwork that uses pixel sorting, a process Asendorf helped popularize. Kevin Abosch, an artist and cryptoart pioneer, considers it one of his favorites from his collection.
The "Interruptions" series by Vera Molnár exemplifies her unique approach to blending order and chaos, making it a cornerstone of her artistic legacy. Molnár embraced computational methods to generate geometric compositions, using simple rules and systematic variations to explore form. Her true innovation lies in the concept of disrupting these structured patterns-introducing intentional randomness or slight distortions to break perfect order.
The Plantoids, created by Primavera De Filippi, are blockchain-based life forms embodied in metal sculpture, and they were likely the first blockchain-based physical sculptures. Plantoid 13 was the first version to incorporate NFTs as part of its reproduction cycle, outputting digital seeds in the form of generative art tokens on the Ethereum blockchain to its human pollinators.
Autoglyphs by Larva Labs are considered the cave paintings of on-chain generative art and were the first fully on-chain generative art collection. The Goose, part of Dmitri Cherniak's "Ringers" series, is a digital artwork that is considered by Punk6529, an NFT collector, to crystallize everything that makes on-chain generative art miraculous.
Last Selfie by XCOPY, a digital artwork released as a limited edition of 10, was sold for $1.2 million in 2025. Doug Aitken, a multimedia artist known for immersive and video artworks, had exhibitions around 2022, but no specific mention of participation in Digital Art Mile Basel 2022 has been found.
The atmosphere at the Digital Art Mile was calmer, more measured, and decidedly academic compared to the usual buying frenzy at Art Basel. One NFT expert stated that digital art history is long and storied, and the Digital Art Mile is important because it educates the public about the canon of digital art. The event provides an invaluable opportunity for art enthusiasts to explore the cutting edge of digital art and engage with the creators and collectors shaping its future.
- The headline exhibition "Paintboxed" at the Digital Art Mile features Matt Kane's digital artwork Gazers 200, a lunar calendar that aligns with the moon's phases.
- Leila Khazaneh, a digital art collector, owns Gazers 200 and considers it one of the first digital artworks in her collection.
- Kim Asendorf's digital artwork Monogrid 90, which uses pixel sorting, is another notable work at the Digital Art Mile and a favorite of Kevin Abosch, an artist and cryptoart pioneer.
- The "Interruptions" series by Vera Molnár, which blends order and chaos, is a cornerstone of her artistic legacy at the Digital Art Mile exhibition.
- Primavera De Filippi's Plantoids, blockchain-based life forms embodied in metal sculptures, were the first blockchain-based physical sculptures and can be found at the Digital Art Mile.
- Punk6529, an NFT collector, considers The Goose by Larva Labs, part of Dmitri Cherniak's "Ringers" series, a miraculous representation of on-chain generative art.
- Last Selfie by XCOPY, a digital artwork sold for $1.2 million in 2025, is not part of the Digital Art Mile Basel 2022, but Doug Aitken, a multimedia artist known for immersive and video artworks, had exhibitions around that year.
- The Digital Art Mile offers a calmer, more academic atmosphere compared to the usual art fairs, providing an opportunity for art enthusiasts to explore the cutting edge of digital art and engage with the creators and collectors shaping its future.
