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The exhibition Chance Encounters in New Mediums: Generative Art, presented by Tezos, lets visitors co-create a new generative artwork that is minted as an NFTin real-time.
At this year’s Art Basel in the Swiss city Basel, the pioneering exhibition Chance Encounters in New Mediums: Generative Art, presented by Tezos, is highlighting the modern resurgence of generative art. Tezos, an energy-efficient blockchain, is converting the generative art into a live artistic process in which the element of chance is embraced and engraved onto the blockchain in this one-of-a-kind interactive display. Visitors get to co-create a new generative artwork that is instantly minted as an NFT and it’s given to participants in real-time as part of the interactive experience. The exhibition is headed by Herbert W Franke, a visionary early generative art pioneer and science fiction writer, with his 1979 MONDRIAN software, courtesy of Herbert W Franke and Susanne Päch. The TI-99/4, the first 16-bit home computer, was used to produce MONDRIAN, a dynamic generative software. A 21:21 minute sequence of the dynamic generative program captured at a solo show at ZKM in 2010, now minted as an NFT on Tezos is on display.
For generative artists, blockchains like Tezos are helping to re-imagine the digital canvas. Art, like technology, is in a perpetual state of change. The show looks at how art and technology are evolving together, and how artists around the world are redefining what generative art might be in this new medium. The Tezos art exhibition encourages visitors to immerse themselves in this environment and learn first-hand about the importance of NFTs in the arts and beyond. The generative art platform fx(hash) is at the heart of the show. It is a one-of-a-kind tool in the field of NFT art, allowing collectors to interact with generative art in a whole new way via the blockchain technology. The interactive aspect of the exhibit, powered by fx(hash), allows visitors to scan a QR code to start the process of producing a new artwork created autonomously by one of the artist’s algorithms. Each contact with the exhibit is a chance encounter; an opportunity to initiate the development of a new generative artwork that is instantly minted as an NFT and given to visitors.
