Compositions in Code: MoMI’s New Exhibit Celebrating Processing and p5.js
The Museum of the Transferring Picture (MoMI) is able to current its newest set up, Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js, from March 6 to August 24 on the Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall. As the ultimate venture in a partnership collection with the Tezos Basis, this exhibition highlights how code-based instruments and blockchain expertise intersect in right now’s artwork world.
Guests will get to expertise and even accumulate fragments of the featured artworks as MoMI strives to make digital artwork and the inventive potential of code extra accessible.
Artist-Pleasant Programming with Processing and p5.js
Processing, first launched in 2001 by Casey Reas and Ben Fry, is well known for remodeling how individuals view code as a inventive medium. Providing a simplified, sketchbook-like surroundings that gives fast visible suggestions, Processing lowers the barrier to experimenting with generative and interactive design.
In later years, Lauren Lee McCarthy’s p5.js library took these core rules and tailored them to JavaScript, making it even easier for artists to provide and share web-based items. These open-source instruments assist to spark new concepts and invite a broader vary of creators.
Compositions in Code Exhibit
Organized by MoMI’s Affiliate Curator of Media Arts, Regina Harsanyi, Compositions in Code options six artists displayed as three diptychs. Early Processing adopters—Marius Watz, LIA, and Robert Hodgin—are paired with p5.js-based practitioners Aleksandra Jovanić, Sarah Ridgley, and Melissa Wiederrecht.
Their contributions showcase how this generation-spanning neighborhood has approached code as a medium, every drawing on shared foundations but providing distinct visible types. As a part of the exhibition, each artist will make a section of their displayed work obtainable without charge, both onsite or on-line by way of Tezos.
Some examples from Processing
Tezos Blockchain: A House for Digital Artwork
The Tezos blockchain has emerged as a well-liked selection for artists working with Processing and p5.js, because of platforms like fxhash, objkt, and EditArt. These marketplaces permit digital creators worldwide to showcase, promote, and accumulate works in a community-driven surroundings.
Museums and galleries like Serpentine, Musée d’Orsay, and LAS Artwork Basis have additionally embraced Tezos to broaden their Web3 choices. And, via MoMI’s set up, audiences can witness firsthand how revolutionary expertise and inventive coding unite to reshape the way forward for artwork.
Opening Reception
Based in 1985 and positioned in Astoria, New York, MoMI dedicates itself to exploring the historical past, expertise, and impression of the shifting picture in all types. On Thursday, March 6, at 7:00 p.m., MoMI will host a gap reception in partnership with the Tezos Basis and the Processing Basis.
The night will embrace a panel dialogue with artist Marius Watz; Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, Head of Arts at Trilitech (a part of the Tezos ecosystem); and Roopa Vasudevan, a mentor from the Processing Basis.
As the ultimate set up within the collection, Compositions in Code showcases the far-reaching impression of inventive coding via Processing and p5.js. Each environments empower artists to deal with software program as a visible experimentation canvas whereas revealing the surprising great thing about algorithms at play.
