The Museum of the Shifting Picture (MoMI) is able to current its newest set up, Compositions in Code: The Artwork of Processing and p5.js, from March 6 to August 24 on the Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall. As the ultimate venture in a partnership sequence with the Tezos Basis, this exhibition highlights how code-based instruments and blockchain know-how intersect in immediately’s artwork world.
Guests will get to expertise and even gather fragments of the featured artworks as MoMI strives to make digital artwork and the artistic potential of code extra accessible.
Artist-Pleasant Programming with Processing and p5.js
Processing, first launched in 2001 by Casey Reas and Ben Fry, is widely known for reworking how individuals view code as a artistic medium. Providing a simplified, sketchbook-like surroundings that gives speedy visible suggestions, Processing lowers the barrier to experimenting with generative and interactive design.
In later years, Lauren Lee McCarthy’s p5.js library took these core ideas and tailored them to JavaScript, making it even less complicated for artists to supply and share web-based items. These open-source instruments assist to spark new concepts and invite a broader vary of creators.
Compositions in Code Exhibit
Organized by MoMI’s Affiliate Curator of Media Arts, Regina Harsanyi, Compositions in Code options six artists displayed as three diptychs. Early Processing adopters—Marius Watz, LIA, and Robert Hodgin—are paired with p5.js-based practitioners Aleksandra Jovanić, Sarah Ridgley, and Melissa Wiederrecht.
Their contributions showcase how this generation-spanning group has approached code as a medium, every drawing on shared foundations but providing distinct visible kinds. As a part of the exhibition, each artist will make a section of their displayed work out there without charge, both onsite or on-line through Tezos.
Some examples from Processing
Tezos Blockchain: A Residence for Digital Artwork
The Tezos blockchain has emerged as a well-liked alternative for artists working with Processing and p5.js, due to platforms like fxhash, objkt, and EditArt. These marketplaces enable digital creators worldwide to showcase, promote, and gather works in a community-driven surroundings.
Museums and galleries like Serpentine, Musée d’Orsay, and LAS Artwork Basis have additionally embraced Tezos to develop their Web3 choices. And, by means of MoMI’s set up, audiences can witness firsthand how modern know-how and inventive coding unite to reshape the way forward for artwork.
Opening Reception
Based in 1985 and positioned in Astoria, New York, MoMI dedicates itself to exploring the historical past, know-how, and influence of the shifting picture in all varieties. On Thursday, March 6, at 7:00 p.m., MoMI will host a gap reception in partnership with the Tezos Basis and the Processing Basis.
The night will embody a panel dialogue with artist Marius Watz; Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, Head of Arts at Trilitech (a part of the Tezos ecosystem); and Roopa Vasudevan, a mentor from the Processing Basis.
As the ultimate set up within the sequence, Compositions in Code showcases the far-reaching influence of artistic coding by means of Processing and p5.js. Each environments empower artists to deal with software program as a visible experimentation canvas whereas revealing the surprising great thing about algorithms at play.
