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

2021

HEN Discontinued

Artwork · Europe

Colored circles form a branching geometric tree on a fine gray grid, with small numerical annotations.
Matt DesLauriers, spanning tree sketch 01, 2021. OBJKT #466 remained accessible after HEN’s website closed. Artwork: Matt DesLauriers. Reproduced from the artist’s November 2021 account of the platform’s closure. Image source.

In November, HEN founder Rafael Lima unexpectedly pulled the plug on the platform he created amid internal debate and pressure. Displaying the resiliency of decentralized Web3 organizations, HEN was quickly ported to alternative front-ends that were able to continue operations as usual. The resourcefulness and agility of the community is exemplified by Tezos members such as NftBiker, who started providing collecting and art tools, as part of a maturing ecosystem. This also saw the prominence of platform objkt.com increase. The community front-end Teia was formally launched in February 2022.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

NftBiker, Rafael Lima

Movements

Tezos Art

Filed under

Ideas
Blockchain Art, collecting, community, decentralization, NFT Art, Tezos Art, tools
Technologies
Tezos, Web3
People
NftBiker, Rafael Lima
Organisations
Hic et Nunc (HEN), objkt.com, Teia

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