ANNOUNCEMENT:
Artist @_deafbeef sees $164,000 USD in sales with @AspreyStudio at @ArtBasel Zero 10.
Three Synth Poem: Oscilloscope, 2021-26 forged iron sculptures, electronics, and generative code are acquired, two for $80,000 USD total, and one paired with an original Ben Laposky Oscillon, 1953 gelatin print for $54,000 USD.
Four Hashmarks, 2023 sculptures, digital artworks and prints are acquired for $30,000 USD total.
"We need to bring in more collectors because sometimes it is always the same ones.
New artists are also coming in and emerging.
Institutions are really interested. You can see it with the @MuseumModernArt, Rashid Johnson etc.
Museums and art institutes are really interested, and they want to attract a new public to all these spaces. What we need is to make it easier for people to buy the art, to keep it, and to display and watch it.
It is also about education. I do the tour of the bank because we display a lot of the works in the collection. And the advantage in digital art when it is displayed digitally is you can change it every six months or so.
So it is important that they can visualise how they can enjoy the art.
Today, I do not think the crypto part should be linked. It should be just art, and just make it simple"
@RaniJabban / @arabbankCH
🤯 Midjourney -- yes, the AI image company -- just shipped a brand new type of imaging machine. 🤯
- 100x faster than an MRI.
- 10x cheaper.
Full body scanned in 60 seconds instead of an hour in a tube. Ultrasound based, MRI-level resolution.
And it's real -- not a concept, a working machine. You step into a shallow pool of warm water, a ring of half a million sensors sends sound through your body from every angle, and ~60 seconds later you have a 3D map of your insides down to a fraction of a millimeter. No radiation, no tube, no lying still.
They're not even building it as a hospital machine -- they're building a spa. The scan is a side-effect of a place you'd want to hang out anyway.
Lastly, it is built by 9 people. NINE PEOPLE.
You can just do things.
'Infinite Garden' (2025-) by @lennyjpg is a collective on-chain work that transforms digital materiality through an ever-shifting botanical ecosystem on blockchain where no single moment repeats. Every collector becomes a gardener: assembling, merging, and sharing generative flowers through blockchain protocol, acquiring not static images but living digital flora in perpetual flux.
Where Herzog's 'Infinite Garden' (2025-) invites individual collectors to become gardeners, the 'Infinite (Botanical) Garden' realises something of an entirely different order. It is a master work: a single living image that absorbs and synthesises the entire 'Infinite Garden' ecosystem across 1,900 collectors, 300 million flowers, and 40,000 gardening interactions incorporating smart-contract as a medium and spirit protocol agent, into one continuously evolving composition.
Presented as a 2 x 2 metre floor-level LED installation, the 'Infinite (Botanical) Garden' makes the scale of collective participation physically tangible. What appears as an image is in fact a map, a real-time record of every on-chain interaction made across the contract, rendered as botanical form, with the 1,900 gardeners who came before, and with all those who will follow in the infinite collective performance.
On view @ArtBasel
Messe Basel
Zero 10, Booth Z7
VIP days: June 16-17
Public days: June 18-21
Minting on @shape
Supported by @privy_io, @0xassembly, and @spiritagents
This was in my opinion the most powerful moment of the day, I obviously got moved, and it was because of the queue.
At 3.55pm of June 16th, a wave of digital art supporters, experts, friends and believers was queuing together to wait for the doors to open at 4pm and finally exploring the wonder of Zero 10 at Art Basel in Basel. Many many many of us. It was a wave. All queueing and waiting. To access just at 4pm, not one minute later.
This is a moment I won’t forget.
Picture by @seth
We registered the AI agent itself with the SEC as an investment advisor.
It has your complete context on your portfolio and account history. Speak to it in plain English to take action on your account. It will even prompt you with ideas you hadn’t thought of.
Art Basel Basel 2026
Ft @lennyjpg's 'Infinite Garden' (2025-)
Opening Tomorrow
Messe Basel, Zero 10, Booth Z7
VIP days: June 16-17
Public days: June 18-21