After its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach last December, Zero 10—Art Basel’s dedicated sector for art of the digital age—makes its Asia premiere at Art Basel Hong Kong this week.

Curated by Eli Scheinman, this second iteration brings together 14 exhibitors showing a diverse range of artists: AOTM (showing DeeKay); Art Blocks (Harvey Rayner); Asprey Studio (All Seeing Seneca, Qu Leilei, Tim Yip); bitforms (Quayola, Daniel Canogar); BottoDAO (Botto); Fellowship & ARTXCODE (Sougwen Chung); √K Contemporary (Emi Kusano); Nguyen Wahed (Kim Asendorf); Office Impart (Jonas Lund); Onkaos (Robert Alice); Plan X (Claire Silver, ThankyouX); Silk Art House (Jack Butcher); SOLOS (Laurie Simmons, Petra Cortright); and TAEX (Kevin Abosch).

The latest edition of Zero 10 spotlights a broad mix of AI- and blockchain-based practices, including the public debut of the decentralized autonomous artist Botto, one of a number of presentations that highlights the success of interactive works in Miami.

Beyond the booths, Art Basel’s Conversations program features a number of compelling panels, including “Who builds the canon? Infrastructure, authorship, and digital culture”, which features Right Click Save’s own Director and Publisher, Tony Lyu, alongside Kusano, Scheinman, and Sunny Cheung, Curator of Design and Architecture at M+. The conversation promises to be a welcome temperature check at a time when the tectonics of the art world are rapidly shifting.

— Danielle King, Head of Community at Right Click Save

In this extract from his interview with Right Click Save, Ryan Zurrer, the venture capitalist, and owner of the 1OF1 collection, speaks about his approach to collecting.

I try to build a relationship with the artist and figure out something I can do to be helpful. Often that is working with major global cultural institutions to exhibit their work or helping them thoughtfully sprinkle cryptoeconomics and game-theoretical dynamics into their work. I’ll dive deep into their practice to understand their technical craft and their vision for how their practice will evolve.

Then I will take a “portfolio position” by either acquiring a set of significant works, like with Refik [Anadol], where 1OF1 owns 27 works. Or I will collect the “magnum opus” that is a career-defining masterpiece such as Beeple’s HUMAN ONE (2021) or Sam Spratt’s Monument Game (2024).

Primarily, I try to collect directly from artists after spending time getting to know them at their studios. Building relationships is the most rewarding part of collecting for me and I really don’t understand collectors that collect dead artists. It really is the friends and mentors that you make along the way that are the gift you get for embarking on the collecting journey.

— Ryan Zurrer is the founder of Dialectic, an agentic risk-controlled crypto yielding machine based in Switzerland. He was a very early investor in some of the best-performing venture investments of the last decade, particularly in the crypto ecosystem and led Polychain Capital’s private investments. He is the owner of an important digital art collection, 1OF1, including Beeple’s HUMAN ONE and works by Refik Anadol, and sits on the boards of trustees of MoMA and The Hip Hop Museum. His philanthropy focuses on helping a new generation of artists take their rightful place in art canon alongside his mission-driven work in mental health through his firm Vine Ventures. Previously, Ryan was CEO of a large Brazilian renewable energy firm.