Chain Reactions

A partnership

MoMI × Tezos Foundation.

The Museum of the Moving Image and the Tezos Foundation have launched a new series of artist commissions exploring blockchain as a creative material — featuring installations on the Museum's Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall, live events, and a public workshop track: the FA2 Fellowship.

The series centers on FA2 smart contracts — the standardized framework in the Tezos ecosystem that lets anyone create and manage digital assets. Chain Reactions is one of the projects developed within this program.

The Commissions

Each MoMI × Tezos commission is accompanied by a process image that visitors can collect at no cost — in person at the Museum or online. Minting is powered by objkt.

The FA2 Fellowship

The Fellowship invites a broader community of artists to learn about and play with FA2 through hands-on instruction, mentorship, and guided development. Participants who complete four sessions qualify to apply for microgrants to develop their projects further. The program culminates in two finalists being commissioned to present a collaborative project at the Museum.

Live Events

Complementing the commissions and Fellowship is a series of two live events, featuring performances and time-based work that extend the conversation around blockchain, artists, and authorship into shared physical space.

Built on

Museum Without Walls

The FA2 program builds on Museum Without Walls, the MoMI × Tezos collaboration launched in June 2024. That partnership introduced an annual exhibition series and an interactive station in the Museum lobby — letting visitors mint and take home digital "fragments" from artists at no cost, opening art collection through blockchain technology.

  1. 2024

    Museum Without Walls launches

    MoMI and the Tezos Foundation launch an annual exhibition series and an interactive lobby station where visitors can mint and take home artist fragments at no cost — democratizing collection through blockchain.

  2. 2024–25

    Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js

    A series of diptychs pairs Processing pioneers Marius Watz, LIA, and Robert Hodgin with p5.js artists Aleksandra Jovanić, Sarah Ridgley, and Melissa Wiederrecht, celebrating code as a creative material.

  3. 2025

    The FA2 cycle begins

    A deepening of the institutions' shared commitment to blockchain's role in contemporary art — through artist commissions, the FA2 Fellowship, and live events. Chain Reactions is part of this cycle.