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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This expanded program extends their partnership with Museum Without Walls in 2024 and will spotlight blockchain as a living artistic medium through a two-year cycle of committees, workshops and fellowships hosted at MoMI’s Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall from November 2025 to January 2027.
A new chapter for Blockchain art
The initiative will commission five artist pairs 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 the installations, the program will host public events, performances and an FA2 Fellowship, aimed at helping artists and developers experiment with blockchain in new creative ways.
The opening commission, created by James Bloom and Gottfried Jäger, bridges the gap between past and present, revisiting Jäger’s groundbreaking generative photography from 1967 and translating it into a modern network artwork. Following links include:
Sarah Friend (Canada) and Yehwan Song (South Korea/USA), investigate games, systems and individuality.
Linda Dounia (Senegal/Lebanon) and Rhea Myers (UK), focused on speculative archiving and blockchain as art.
Jonas Lund (Sweden) and Yoshi Sodeoka (Japan/USA), who dissect the aesthetics and ethics of networked systems.
Each project will push the FA2 standard to its limits, making blockchain an expressive, interactive material rather than just a technical tool.
“Since the days of hic et nunc, I have hoped that more artists would engage with the Tezos blockchain itself as a performative and behavioral component of their work. With this initiative, we are advancing a new creative direction in which blockchain is not just the medium, but part of the behavior of art.”
Regina Harsanyi, Associate Curator of Media Art at MoMI
The FA2 Fellowship and Microgrant Program
At the heart of the initiative is the FA2 Fellowship, which pairs selected artists with Tezos developers for hands-on experimentation. Participants will attend four sessions culminating in a final commission opportunity for viewing at MoMI. By completing the program, you will also be eligible for micro-grants ranging from $500 to $1,000, which will support artists in developing and expanding their blockchain-based projects.
Throughout the cycle, artists will also release eight “production artifacts” – open-source sketches, generative tools or code snippets – that will be freely collectable on the Tezos blockchain, giving the public a glimpse into each artist’s creative process.
“Artists have always been at the forefront of 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 realize this vision.”
Aleksandra Artamonovskaya, Head of Art at Trilitech (Tezos R&D Hub)
Building on a shared vision
This new partnership follows the success of Museum Without Walls, the 2024 initiative that allowed museum visitors to store and collect digital artworks on Tezos for free. That program helped democratize art ownership and showcased code-based creativity through Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js.
Now the FA2-focused partnership deepens that mission: bridging contemporary art and decentralized technology while empowering artists to reimagine what digital creation can mean.