Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)
2023
MoMA Announces NFT Acquisitions
In October, along with its MoMA Postcard launch, a major breakthrough in on-chain generative art history took place when The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) expanded its digital art collection to include NFTs. The acquisitions included works by Refik Anadol and Ian Cheng, underscoring MoMA’s commitment to artists exploring emerging technologies, building on a legacy of innovative exhibitions like The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age (1968), Information (1970) and Thinking Machines (2017).
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
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NFT Art, Blockchain Art, artificial intelligence
Filed under
- Ideas
- collecting, digital art, institutions, legacy, museums
- Technologies
- NFTs, on-chain, on-chain generative art
- People
- Ian Cheng, Refik Anadol
- Works
- MoMA Postcard, Postcard
- Exhibitions
- Information, The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age
- Organisations
- MoMA, October, Thinking Machines
Related moments
- 2017 · Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989 at MoMA
- 1970 · Information exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art
- 1968 · The machine, as seen at the end of the mechanical age at MoMA
- 2023 · MoMA Postcard Launched
Echoes across time
- 1973 · France Hosts International Computer Art Events
- 1968 · "On the Path to Computer Art” by the Parallel Group
- 1988 · Computers and Art at the IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York
Le Random editorials
- Ian Cheng on Composing with Systems, Peter Bauman, January 12, 2026
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