At Basel’s First Digital Art Fair, Collectors and Artists Debate Whether the Traditional Art World Matters
One of the panel discussions at the Digital Art Mile.

At Basel’s First Digital Art Fair, Collectors and Artists Debate Whether the Traditional Art World Matters

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While collectors arrived at Art Basel last week dressed to the nines and ready to splash millions on everything from a Joan Mitchell diptych ($18 million at David Zwirner) to an Ed Ruscha painting ($2.8 at Gagosian), a more understated affair took place a short walk away along the Rhine River. There, George Bak, the digital and generative art advisor, and Roger Haas, a former gallery director, held the Digital Art Mile, the city’s first digital art fair.

Spread across three locations, the fair ran from June 10 to 16 and included a five-day conference program in the city’s underground and dimly-lit cinema Kult Kino Camera.