Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 9: AI Era (2010s)
2014
Kathleen and Arthur Breitman Propose Tezos

Arthur Breitman, writing as L.M Goodman, released two Tezos papers in 2014 that proposed and described the Tezos blockchain for the first time. The chain would go on to ICO in 2017 and play a significant role in the history of NFTs with its grassroots digital art community beginning with HEN in early 2021. Seven years before Tezos would greatly influence digital art and NFTs, Breitman’s whitepaper detailed a new decentralized ledger utilizing—like Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum—“smart contracts” to automate and secure digital agreements. Unlike Ethereum, Tezos was Their vision for Tezos included features for seamless upgrades and improved security measures, setting it apart from prominent blockchain projects by avoiding hard forks through on-chain governance.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Arthur Breitman, Kathleen Breitman, L.M. Goodman, Vitalik Buterin
Movements
generative art, NFT Art, Tezos Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- community, digital art, generative art, NFT Art, Tezos Art
- Technologies
- blockchain, Ethereum, hard fork, initial coin offering (ICO), NFTs, on-chain, on-chain governance, smart contracts, Tezos
- People
- Arthur Breitman, Kathleen Breitman, L.M. Goodman, Vitalik Buterin
- Works
- Tezos Whitepaper
- Organisations
- Hic et Nunc (HEN)
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