Artist Trevor Paglen Will Curate the Swiss Edition of Art Basel’s Digital Art Initiative

Trevor Paglen, the New York–based artist known for his incisive engagement with knotty technological issues including surveillance and AI, will curate the third edition of “Zero 10,” Art Basel’s new initiative dedicated to the art of the digital era, the first to take place at the fair’s Swiss edition (June 17–21).

Major international galleries, including Marian Goodman, Hauser and Wirth, and Almine Rech, will present work by widely known contemporary artists such as John Gerrard, Agnieszka Kurant, Avery Singer, and Hito Steyerl. Paglen will work alongside digital art strategist Eli Scheinman, who organized the first two editions along with Vincenzo de Bellis, Art Basel’s chief artistic officer and global director of fairs.

“As we thought about the most cogent way to approach this summer’s Art Basel,” said Scheinman in a video conversation with his co-curator, “it felt compelling from the beginning to bring into the fold someone like Trevor and lean on him, with his artistic background, his experience, his lens on the world, and his investigative eye.”

Titled “The Condition,” Paglen and Scheinman’s presentation surveys some seven decades of instruction-based and computational work. Stars of our moment will appear alongside forerunners like Hungarian-born artist Vera Molnár, who began using computers as early as 1968. And there will be works stretching back even farther, such as Mary Ellen Bute and Ted Nemeth’s Oscilloscope Tests, begun in 1950, and Ben F. Laposky’s Oscillation 4, also dating to the 1950s.

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