NEW YORK — The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the Tezos Foundation have announced a major new partnership that will transform the way artists interact with blockchain technology.
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Expanding on the 2024 collaboration Museum Without Walls, this expanded program will spotlight blockchain as a living art medium through a two-year cycle of commissions, workshops, and fellowships to be held at MoMI’s Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall from November 2025 to January 2027.
A new chapter in blockchain art
The initiative will ask five artists to create projects using Tezos’ FA2 standard, a flexible, multi-asset smart contract framework designed to support complex and interactive digital works. In addition to installations, the program will also feature public events, performances, and the FA2 Fellowship aimed at helping artists and developers experiment with blockchain in new and creative ways.
The opening commission, created by James Bloom and Gottfried Jaeger, bridges past and present, revisiting Jaeger’s groundbreaking generative photography from 1967 and translating it into a contemporary networked artwork. Subsequent pairings include:
Sarah Friend (Canada) and Yehwan Song (Korea/USA) explore games, systems, and selfhood.
Linda Dounia (Senegal/Lebanon) and Leah Myers (UK) focus on speculative archives and blockchain as art.
Jonas Lund (Sweden) and Yoshi Sodeoka (Japan/USA) analyze the aesthetics and ethics of networked systems.
Each project pushes the FA2 standard to its creative limits, turning blockchain from just a technical tool to an expressive and interactive material.
“Since the days of hic et nunc, I had hoped that more artists would engage with the Tezos blockchain itself as a performative and behavioral element in their work. With this initiative, we are fostering a new creative direction in which blockchain is not just a medium, but part of the action of art.”
Regina Harsanyi, Momi Media Arts Associate Curator
FA2 Fellowship and Microgrant Program
At the heart of this effort is the FA2 Fellowship, which pairs selected artists with Tezos developers for hands-on experimentation. Participants will attend four sessions and ultimately have the opportunity for a final committee to exhibit at MoMI. Completing this program will also make you eligible for small grants ranging from $500 to $1,000 to support artists in developing and scaling their blockchain-based projects.
Throughout the cycle, artists will also release eight “production artifacts” (open-source sketches, generation tools, or snippets of code) that can be freely collected on the Tezos blockchain, giving the public a glimpse into each artist’s creative process.
“Artists have always led the way in the adoption of new media. Through this partnership, we are giving them the tools to make blockchain interactive, experimental, and alive. Museum of the Moving Image is the perfect partner to bring this vision to life.”
Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, Head of Art at Trilitech (TEZos R&d Hub)
Build on a shared vision
This new collaboration follows the success of Museum Without Walls, a 2024 initiative that allows museum visitors to mint and collect free digital artwork on Tezos. The program contributed to the democratization of art ownership and introduced code-based creativity through Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js.
Now, the partnership around FA2 deepens that mission, bridging contemporary art and distributed technology while empowering artists to reimagine what it means to create digitally.
