Museum of the Moving Image & Tezos Foundation Launch Blockchain Art Initiative
New York — The Museum of the Transferring Picture (MoMI) and the Tezos Basis have introduced a serious new partnership that can remodel how artists have interaction with blockchain know-how.
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Extending their 2024 collaboration Museum With out Partitions, this expanded program will highlight blockchain as a dwelling creative medium by a two-year cycle of commissions, workshops, and fellowships hosted on MoMI’s Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall from November 2025 to January 2027.
A New Chapter for Blockchain Artwork
The initiative will fee 5 artist pairs to create tasks utilizing Tezos’s FA2 commonplace — a versatile, multi-asset sensible contract framework designed to assist complicated and interactive digital works. Alongside the installations, this system will host public occasions, performances, and a FA2 Fellowship aimed toward serving to artists and builders experiment with blockchain in new inventive methods.
The opening fee, created by James Bloom and Gottfried Jäger, bridges previous and current—revisiting Jäger’s groundbreaking generative images from 1967 and translating it into a contemporary networked paintings. Subsequent pairings embody:
Sarah Good friend (Canada) and Yehwan Music (South Korea/US), exploring video games, techniques, and selfhood.
Linda Dounia (Senegal/Lebanon) and Rhea Myers (UK), specializing in speculative archiving and blockchain as artwork.
Jonas Lund (Sweden) and Yoshi Sodeoka (Japan/US), dissecting the aesthetics and ethics of networked techniques.
Every challenge will push the FA2 commonplace to its inventive limits, turning blockchain into an expressive, interactive materials quite than only a technical device.
“Because the days of hic et nunc, I’ve hoped to see extra artists have interaction with the Tezos blockchain itself as a performative and behavioral part of their work. With this initiative, we’re fostering a brand new inventive route the place blockchain isn’t simply the medium—it’s a part of the artwork’s conduct.”
Regina Harsanyi, Affiliate Curator of Media Arts at MoMI
The FA2 Fellowship and Microgrant Program
On the coronary heart of the initiative is the FA2 Fellowship, pairing chosen artists with Tezos builders for hands-on experimentation. Contributors will attend 4 periods that culminate in a ultimate fee alternative for show at MoMI. Finishing this system additionally unlocks eligibility for microgrants starting from $500–$1,000, supporting artists in creating and increasing their blockchain-based tasks.
All through the cycle, artists may also launch eight “manufacturing artifacts” — open-source sketches, generative instruments, or code fragments — freely collectible on the Tezos blockchain, providing the general public a glimpse into every artist’s inventive course of.
“Artists have all the time led the adoption of recent media. By way of this partnership, we’re giving them the instruments to make blockchain interactive, experimental, and alive. Museum of the Transferring Picture is the right accomplice to understand this imaginative and prescient.”
Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, Head of Arts at Trilitech (Tezos R&D Hub)
Constructing on a Shared Imaginative and prescient
This new collaboration follows the success of Museum With out Partitions, the 2024 initiative that allowed museum guests to mint and gather free digital artworks on Tezos. That program helped democratize artwork possession and showcased code-based creativity by Compositions in Code: The Artwork of Processing and p5.js.
Now, the FA2-centered partnership deepens that mission—bridging up to date artwork and decentralized know-how whereas empowering artists to rethink what digital creation can imply.
