Digital Dialogues | Art Basel in Miami 2025, December 6

Conversations | Infinite scroll: Art, algorithms and images today

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Maya Man, Artist, New York Kiya Tadele&nbsp;(Yatreda),&nbsp;Artist, Addis Ababa Jack Butcher,&nbsp;Artist, Nashville &nbsp; Moderator: Dr. Jeni Fulton, Head of Editorial, Art Basel
 

This panel brings together artists who shape – and are shaped by – the internet’s visual vernacular to ask how art is made&nbsp;for&nbsp;feeds,&nbsp;from&nbsp;formats, and&nbsp;through&nbsp;platforms. Maya Man examines online identity and performance with works that inhabit the browser, the timeline, and the closet. Projects such as the browser-extension&nbsp;Glance Back&nbsp;and the Art Blocks series ‘FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT’ interrogate femininity, authenticity, and algorithmic self-presentation. Jack Butcher’s practice explores how value emerges in networked culture. As founder of Visualize Value, he distills markets, scarcity, and consensus into minimalist visual systems, making the shape of the digital economy visible.&nbsp;Yatreda, an Ethiopian family-based digital art collective, weaves together nostalgic&nbsp;tizita&nbsp;aesthetics, oral histories, and blockchain-native formats to reframe heritage through the lens of the networked image.&nbsp; Together they discussed making with/against algorithms; the aesthetics of compression, glitches, and file types; how distribution channels (Instagram/TikTok/marketplaces) become mediums; and the ethics of mining, mirroring, and remixing online culture.&nbsp;
 
Maya Man is an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the internet. Her work examines dominant narratives around femininity, authenticity, and the performance of self. She has exhibited or performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; bitforms, New York; Tate Britain, London; and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in&nbsp;Art in America,&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books, and CURA among other publications.&nbsp;
Yatreda&nbsp;(ያጥሬዳ) is a family-based collective of artists from Ethiopia, led by creative director Kiya Tadele, who create digital artwork in the style of&nbsp;tizita&nbsp;– a profound sense of nostalgia and longing for the past. Combining childhood musings, collective memory, and folk tales with the rich history and legends cherished by modern Ethiopians, Yatreda’s work invites viewers to contemplate the cyclical nature of history.&nbsp;
Jack Butcher is a conceptual artist and the founder of Visualize Value. His work studies markets, scarcity, consensus, and the mechanics of belief. Drawing on a background in commercial design, he resolves complexity into visual systems that function as both explanations and critiques. His practice spans digital images, conceptual objects, and networked collections that examine how value is created, transmitted, and verified. Butcher’s projects have generated more than USD 1 billion in sales volume on the Ethereum network since 2021. Dr. Jeni Fulton&nbsp;is Art Basel’s Head of Editorial, leading the fair’s global content strategy and its digital magazine. She is the series editor for the&nbsp;Art Market Report&nbsp;and&nbsp;Survey of Global Collecting, co-published by Art Basel and UBS. She lectures on the art market, contemporary art history, and art and technology at Zurich’s University of the Arts, and teaches in the Executive Master’s in Art Market Studies at the University of Zurich.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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