Courtesy of the artist, √K ContemporaryArt & Photography / ListsArt & Photography / Lists5 of the most boundary-pushing artists at Art Basel Hong KongThe Asia debut of Zero 10 brings together facial recognition artworks, epic sculptures about humanity’s future, and digital paintings that reach deep into our pastShareLink copied ✔️March 31, 2026March 31, 2026TextThom Waite An art collector in his 60s or 70s stands in a gallery booth, staring at a machine-generated image of a mysterious, alien figure in an almost-empty room, flanked by what appear to be two security cameras. The collector looks confused. The collector is confused, according to a large, LED display beside the painting, which it decides based on a snapshot of his face captured by the cameras. He’s also interested, amused, and doubtful to varying degrees, with each emotion scored out of 100. Altogether, the screens and cameras form Mirror Stages, an artwork by BottoDAO, presented in the Zero 10 sector at this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong. Confused, interested, amused, and doubtful seem like appropriate adjectives to describe the response to Zero 10 as a whole in 2026. This year, the sector of Art Basel dedicated to exploring the intersection of art and technology made its Asia debut, following a much-talked-about premiere in Miami (the one with the billionaire’s faces on robot dogs). “Digital is unambiguously the format of the moment,” curator Eli Scheinman told Dazed. “In all of our lives, there’s an increasing ubiquity of technologies – algorithms, models, agents – that reconstruct our relationship with ourselves and what it means to have human agency. Art Basel exists to amplify voices and artistic practices that interrogate those relationships and help us, as viewers of their artworks, resolve some of those questions.” Technically, BottoDAO might have been the most innovative artist to exhibit at