Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)
2021
HEN Discontinued

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
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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- 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