Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)
2022
A Community Finds its Voice

In the beginning of 2022, a nascent on-chain generative art community began to find its voice as organizations like Right Click Save, TENDER and Waiting To Be Signed joined Outland—first publishing November 30, 2021—in giving voice to artists and collectors with suddenly much to say. In 2021, these voices had been fairly insular, mostly kept to Art Blocks, fxhash and DAO Discord channels. Led by Editor-in-Chief Alex Estorick, Right Click Save is part of ClubNFT, which was founded by Jason Bailey (Artnome) and had artist Danielle King as its CFO. Together with Outland—led by Editor-in-Chief Brian Droitcour—they served as invaluable platforms for digital art’s written discourse in these critical early years.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Alex Estorick, Brian Droitcour, Danielle King, Jason Bailey
Movements
generative art, NFT Art, Blockchain Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- art criticism, community
- Technologies
- DAOs, on-chain, on-chain generative art
- People
- Alex Estorick, Brian Droitcour, Danielle King, Jason Bailey
- Organisations
- Art Blocks, Artnome, ClubNFT, Discord, fx(hash), fxhash, Outland, Right Click Save, TENDER, Waiting To Be Signed
Related moments
Echoes across time
- 1983 · Portrait of the Artist As a Young Computer by Grace Glueck
- 1986 · Ken Knowlton Asks Why It Isn’t Art Yet?
- 1952 · Founding of the Independent Group (IG)
Le Random editorials
- Jason Bailey, Georg Bak & Kate Vass on the Art Form of Our Generation, Peter Bauman, May 29, 2024
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 10—On-Chain Era (2020s) with Erick Calderon, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Itzel Yard & Rafael Lozano-Hemmer — listen with transcript on Le Random (02 Sep 2024, 63 min). Chapter 10’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify