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

2021

objkt.com Founded

Invention

Six colorfully dressed, hand-drawn lizard characters appear against different pastel backgrounds.
OMGiDRAWEDit (George Goodwin), Tezzardz, 2021. Selection from the collection first released through objkt.com. Artwork: George Goodwin / OMGiDRAWEDit. Official Tezzardz project preview. Image source.

Co-founded by Timothy Mc Alister and launched as an NFT platform on the Tezos blockchain, objkt.com quickly becoming the largest digital art marketplace for NFTs on Tezos, akin to OpenSea on Ethereum. Initially starting as an auction site, it expanded into a full marketplace, especially after HEN’s usability challenges and instability following the departure of its founder. One of the earliest releases was a collaboration with artist and illustrator George Goodwin on the early Tezos PFP project Tezzards, helping to congeal the early Tezos art community. The platform played a pivotal role in shaping the Tezos art ecosystem, providing a decentralized space for artists and collectors to engage, mint, trade and showcase their work.

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

People

George Goodwin, Timothy Mc Alister

Movements

NFT Art, Tezos Art

Filed under

Ideas
art market, Blockchain Art, collaboration, collecting, community, decentralization, NFT Art, Tezos Art
Technologies
blockchain, Ethereum, Illustrator, NFTs, PFP, Tezos
People
George Goodwin, Timothy Mc Alister
Works
Tezzards
Organisations
Hic et Nunc (HEN), objkt.com, OpenSea

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