As we prepare for @artbasel in Basel in two weeks, we're reflecting on Asprey Studio's journey through Zero 10 — from Miami Beach 2025 to Hong Kong 2025.
Collaborating with visionary artists working across physical and digital mediums, Asprey Studio’s presentations reflect the Studio’s ongoing exploration of how physical craftsmanship and digital culture can inform and expand one another.
📍 Zero 10, Booth Z3
Messe Basel, Switzerland
16–21 June 2026
Images: Asprey Studio presentations at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 and Art Basel Hong Kong 2026.
June has arrived - two weeks until the opening of @ArtBasel in Basel 2026 🔥
At the core of the presentation are ‘Synth Poems’ (2021-26) by @_deafbeef, a series of on-chain generative audiovisual works, each paired with one physical sculpture (‘Oscilloscope’) in forged iron by the artist himself.
Each digital Synth Poem piece is created at the moment of minting from a unique hash, producing distinct combinations of tempo, timbre, pitch, and structure. While primarily sonic, each work is accompanied by a visualisation derived directly from its audio signal, referencing early vector displays and oscilloscope imagery.
The physical sculptures are inspired by analogue oscilloscopes, a type of electronic test instrument introduced in the late 19th-century that graphically displays varying voltages of signals as a function of time. Oscilloscopes are used in many different disciplines, including medicine, engineering and telecommunications.
For historical context, the ‘Synth Poem: Oscilloscopes’ are presented along with two original prints by mathematician and artist Ben Laposky (1914–2000), who in the 1950s used an analogue oscilloscope to manipulate electronic waves into visual forms, pioneering early experiments in signal-based abstraction.
Read more via our website - link in bio - and visit us at Booth Z3, Zero 10, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Switzerland
16–21 June 2026
Images: 0xDEAFBEEF, Synth Poem: Oscilloscope, 2026, Forged iron, electronics, generative art
Ben Laposky, Oscillon 16, 1953, Vintage silver gelatin print. Courtesy of DEAFBEEF and Asprey Studio.
“Invited to dive into the LACMA archives, I was immediately drawn to the chronophotographic work of Muybridge. In the 19th century, he developed new techniques to enable serial photography of people and animals in motion — images with an enigmatic quality that have been widely influential.” — @_deafbeef on his ‘Chronophotograph’ collection.
Part of Asprey Studio’s presentation at @artbasel Zero 10 in Basel, opening on 16 June 2026, is ‘Chronophotographs’ by 0xDEAFBEEF, a series of procedurally generated images seeded by the block number, depicting figurative and abstract motion in different phases.
Where pioneering English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) used sequential photography to analyse movement frame by frame, 0xDEAFBEEF translates this logic into blockchain-based systems. Blockchain, like chronophotography, operates as a time-based medium, with new blocks added approximately every twelve seconds.The block number at the precise moment of observation becomes the seed for the procedural generation of the image, producing snapshots of forms across phases of motion — digital chronophotographs embedded in time.
This collection encourages reflections on the perception of time, consensus reality, photography and blockchain as markers of time, as sources of objective truth, and their limitations therein.
Chronophotographs are each unique, randomly generated at the time of “observation”. The collection size is theoretically infinite — but our lifespans are finite.
Read more via our website — link in bio — and visit us at Booth Z3, Zero 10, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
16–21 June 2026.
Images: 1. 0xDEAFBEEF, Chronophotographs #226, 2023, 1/1 platinum-Palladium photographic print paired with 1/1 digital artwork minted on blockchain
2. Eadweard Muybridge, detail of ‘Bouquet’, Galloping, 1887. Collotype on paper. Courtesy of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
An interactive, user programmable generative glitch music sculpture is coming to Zero 10 at @artbasel in Basel in 3 weeks ⚒️👾🎮
A central element of Asprey Studio’s presentation by artist, musician, engineer, and blacksmith @_deafbeef in Basel is ‘Glitchbox’ (2021–25) by, a major interactive sculpture derived from the artist’s generative token series.
Conceived as a programmable audiovisual instrument with handcrafted forged iron elements entirely crafted by the artist himself, ‘Glitchbox’ allows participants to manipulate parameters — analogous to the knobs and switches of a modular synthesizer — generating continuously evolving audiovisual compositions in real time.
Each interaction changes what is seen and heard, positioning the artwork as a dynamic and participatory system rather than a fixed object. In parallel, the forged iron structure retains visible traces of labour and process, introducing material presence, imperfection, and individuality into generative systems.
Come create an immutable artwork at Booth Z3, Zero 10, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Basel, Switzerland, from 16–21 June 2026.
Images: Details of ‘Glitchbox’, hand-forged iron, electronics, generative code
@artbasel in Basel is less than one month away 🌟
Presenting a solo booth by @_deafbeef at Zero 10, Asprey Studio highlights 'Hashmarks', a series of forged iron sculptures paired with digital artworks and prints.
In computing, a hash functions as a fixed-length alphanumeric fingerprint generated from data. Here, that principle is translated into physical form: each sculpture is uniquely forged and engraved on the reverse with a cryptographic code that can be revealed to redeem its corresponding digital token.
The collection consists of 100 unique hand-forged works, each cryptographically linked to a corresponding digital token and connected to a site-specific intervention in Patagonia responding to the movement and geological transformation of glaciers.
Each work exists as a 1/1 piece, establishing a direct relationship between material gesture, encoded information, and digital ownership. The series explores how information is recorded and transmitted through time, where geological traces, handcrafted marks, and cryptographic systems all operate as forms of irreversible inscription.
Read more via our website - link in bio - and visit us at Booth Z3, Zero 10, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Switzerland
16–21 June 2026
Image: Hashmarks, 2023, Forged iron sculpture paired with digital artwork and print with iron forge scale residue as pigment
Asprey Studio is thrilled to announce its participation in @artbasel Basel 2026, taking place from 16–21 June in Switzerland.
Following successful presentations in Miami Beach and Hong Kong, Asprey Studio will present a major solo project by generative artist, musician, engineer, programmer, and blacksmith @_deafbeef (b.1981), exhibiting at Booth Z3 in Zero 10, the section dedicated to art of the digital era.
Bringing together generative digital works and handcrafted sculptures, the presentation explores the relationship between technology, materiality, sound, and contemporary craftsmanship.
The physical dimension of 0xDEAFBEEF’s practice resonates with Asprey Studio’s longstanding expertise in precious metal craftsmanship. The sculptural forged iron works reflect a commitment to traditional handcraft while engaging with advanced digital technologies. This dialogue between material and immaterial processes defines the Studio’s approach to contemporary art-making, realised at its atelier in Kent, where silversmiths, goldsmiths, sculptors, and digital animators work side by side.
Known for merging programming, engineering, music, and blacksmithing, 0xDEAFBEEF creates works that draw connections between early experimental image-making and contemporary generative systems.
Read more via our website: https://t.co/kteyrd18Qj
📍 Booth Z3, Event Hall, Zero 10, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4005 Basel, Switzerland
16–21 June 2026
Image: 0xDEAFBEEF, Glitchbox, 2021-26, Forged iron, electronics, generative code. Courtesy of the artist and Asprey Studio
Now in its third edition, Zero 10—Art Basel’s global initiative dedicated to art of the digital era—makes its debut at our flagship fair.
➡️ Discover more of the Swiss edition of the initiative: https://t.co/fLl8zVCHm6
The past week, on Wednesday 29 April, @AspreyStudio, with the patronage of finance executive and art patron Benjamin Segal, has offered a unique, handcrafted, one-of-one silver portrait of His Majesty King Charles III at The @KingsTrust Global Gala Auction, at @ChristiesInc New York.
The portrait sold for 80,000 USD.
Sketched by Alastair Walker and realised by Asprey Studio's master silversmiths, with Andrew Murphy developing the mesh screens, the work reflects a collaboration rooted in craftsmanship and contemporary practice. In connection with the Trust, Murphy’s studio was established following participation in The Prince’s Trust Enterprise Programme (Southeast London, 2021), continuing the Trust’s legacy of supporting emerging enterprise.
The portrait is realised through a meticulous process combining layered screen-printing with traditional silversmithing and goldsmithing techniques. From Walker’s initial sketch to hand-engraved silver elements produced at the Asprey Studio atelier in Kent, each stage is executed by hand, resulting in a one-of-a-kind piece.
The screen-printing aesthetic references the late 1970s, echoing the visual language of the era in which The King’s Trust was founded, serving as both artistic inspiration and historical context.
Rooted in heritage silversmithing, the work underscores the importance of preserving traditional craftsmanship - particularly as silver allied trades are now on the Red List of Endangered Crafts - while advancing the discipline through contemporary techniques.
The @AspreyStudio gallery is relocating to be under the same roof at the Asprey Studio Atelier in Kent. The new gallery will be far bigger and be a unique experience.
I’m also planning digital art events in London and globally and it being more experience led.
Stay Tuned
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a solo exhibition by Tim Yip, artist and Oscar-winning art director of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. Photography sits at the origins of this practice, stemming from travel, reflection, and imaginationMIRROR OF THE META: Incredible Reality -
a solo exhibition by Tim Yip, artist and Oscar-winning art director of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. Photography sits at the origins of this practice, stemming from travel, reflection, and imaginationMIRROR OF THE META: Incredible Reality -
a solo exhibition by Tim Yip, artist and Oscar-winning art director of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. Photography sits at the origins of this practice, stemming from travel, reflection, and imaginationMIRROR OF THE META: Incredible Reality -
a solo exhibition by Tim Yip, artist and Oscar-winning art director of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. Photography sits at the origins of this practice, stemming from travel, reflection, and imaginationMIRROR OF THE META: Incredible Reality -
a solo exhibition by Tim Yip, artist and Oscar-winning art director of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. Photography sits at the origins of this practice, stemming from travel, reflection, and imaginationMIRROR OF THE META: Incredible Reality -
a solo exhibition by Tim Yip, artist and Oscar-winning art director of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. Photography sits at the origins of this practice, stemming from travel, reflection, and imagination.
That’s a wrap 🔥
We are honored to have participated in the second edition of the Zero 10 sector, @ArtBasel’s new initiative for art of the digital era. Our presentation underscored the vital synergy between art and technology, proving how deeply these mediums are embedded in the contemporary landscape.
Th large-scale installation 'Lili' by Oscar-winning artist Tim Yip (b. 1961) went viral, dominating the Zero 10 area and serving as the centerpiece for a multimedia showcase that examined how technology continues to reshape cultural memory and material expression.
From the British Museum-acquired works of Qu Leilei and the digital aesthetics of @AllSeeingSeneca, to the solid silver transpositions of @jackbutcher digital works handcrafted by the Asprey Studio Atelier (presented by @SilkArtHouse), our booth bridged the gap between heritage and innovation.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this exploration of large-scale installation, AI-generated media, sculpture, and traditional ink painting. We look forward to continuing the dialogue
Asprey Studio’s booth featured on the front cover of @TheArtNewspaper today ❤️🔥
“Lili, by Oscar-winning art director and artist Tim Yip, took centre stage at @artbasel Hong Kong’s new Zero 10 section”
Dominating Zero 10 from above, the 4.5m-high human-like installation went viral at the fair. The artwork is a mirror for human experience in a dystopian future shaped by artificial environments.
📍 Booth Z4, Level 3, HKCEC, Art Basel Hong Kong
27-29 March 2026
@ArtBasel Hong Kong is in full swing 🌟
Presenting a multimedia showcase spanning large-scale installation, AI-generated media, sculpture, and traditional ink painting, reflecting Asprey Studio's curatorial focus on the intersection of physical and digital practices, and on how technology reshapes cultural memory and material expression.
Booth Z4, 📍Booth Z4, Level 3, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
27-29 March 2026
@allseeingseneca@timyiptime1