Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)

2024

Agoria Exhibits and Performs at Musée d’Orsay

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Agoria Exhibits and Performs at Musée d’Orsay

Also in February, electronic musician and digital artist Agoria brought Le Code d’Orsay to the Musée d’Orsay in a surreal convergence of one of the world’s great, historic collections, contemporary generative art, blockchains and biology. The exhibition also featured Σ Lumina, an interactive steel sculpture co-created with Johan Lescure, which produced shadows in the shape of scannable QR codes. These codes could then be used to mint an NFT on fxhash using the Tezos blockchain. Delightfully, the work incorporated visitors’ breaths to alter the visual composition in real time. If a world-class-museum-worthy work of art wasn’t enough, Agoria also composed an original tribute to the museum, which he performed during a DJ set in its historic nave amongst ancient statues.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

Sources

People

Agoria, Johan Lescure

Movements

generative art, Interactive Art, Tezos Art

Filed under

Ideas
biology, Electronic Music, music, NFT Art, participation, sculpture
Technologies
blockchain, NFTs, QR code, Tezos
People
Agoria, Johan Lescure
Works
Lumina, Σ Lumina
Exhibitions
Le Code d'Orsay
Organisations
fx(hash), fxhash, Musée d'Orsay
Places
Paris

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