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Art on Tezos Friday Recap 🔔 → TezCon 2026 returns to Seattle on July 11 with an open-mic program for art and action, featuring live performances, Voices of Iran, panel talks, DJ sets, artist presentations, and community jam sessions. 🌲🎙️ → Projects by @ChiaraPassa1 and @mishaderidder × @miragenesi have been selected for exhibition at @MovingImageNYC through the MoMI × Tezos Foundation partnership. 🏛️✨ → @TeiaCommunity opened submissions for #ComputationalJewelry with @Song11Ting, connecting digital art, physical jewelry, and women’s health ahead of an exhibition in Beijing. 💎💜 → @TheTezos presented "Echoes From Venezuela", a growing collection featuring 34 Venezuelan artists. Curated by @MiRetratito, @StrokeDriven, and @AuRo404, the initiative supports artists directly through #Tez4Venezuela. 🇻🇪🎨 → Only a few days remain to join #Art4LifeTez, organized by @paraxenod and @CinziaGabrielPH, with 1,700 tez awarded across 10 selected artists. 🩸🎨 Deadline July 13. → The Human Interface, curated by @_second_guess was presented at @Romenewmedia in San Lorenzo on July 7, bringing together artists exploring AI, digital identity, memory, and the evolving relationship between humans and technology. 🤖🧠 → Art on Tezos introduced the first "Totally Not A Cabal" collector pair, sharing how @tinoch invited @jedi6900 into the Tezos art ecosystem and what shaped their collecting journeys. 🤝🖼️ → Deadline approaching: Artists have until July 14 to join the 3rd Annual #CINDTezos minting event by @malsheep56, celebrating Disability Pride Month through works by CIND artists and allies. ♿💖 → Discover the newest "Art on Tezos: Curated" selection by @fabriziobrarez, featuring five works exploring the fragile space between appearance and disappearance. 🌫️✨ → @greekdx examined "hello world" by @qubibien through @Automatdotart, co-collected last year on Tezos by Giannis Sourdis and @thefunnyguysNFT, and its connections to the history of computer art. 💻📚 → @TezosCommons announced a special in-person Artz Friday from Seattle, featuring a live interview with the organizers of TezCon ahead of the event. 🎙️🌲 → Brarez published a new edition of Seen By Brarez, this week spotlighting @ArtWojak. 🔍🖼️ → "SMELLS LIKE PROTEIN" by @no_hygiene announced, where online body horror, shitposting, and cursed supermarket aesthetics collide. Coming July 15 to dropart. 🥩🫦 → New on OBJKTOR: @objktlabs spoke with @_pixellare about collaboration, abstraction, pixels, and the idea that abstraction can produce knowledge rather than escape reality. 🟪🧠 → @ForgetDali published a new article on @0009ine, exploring how textiles, memory, graffiti, and urban culture shape his practice. 🧵🏙️ → objkt featured @James_Glohe as Collector of the Week #52, discussing collecting, community, Tezos, and why people often stay for the relationships built around the art. 💬🖼️ → @AntrumArtSpace opened submissions for Waves Syntax, inviting visual, sonic, digital, and interior interpretations of waves for a new collective collection. 🌊✨ Don't Miss: → a new @tezvendsmachine takeover by @nefetesudaca on July 11, combining vaulted works with newly minted 1/1s. 🎟️⚡ → "Ghost of the Brush", curated by @ilyabliznets for @accomparts, exploring composition, color, form, and atmosphere through digital practice. 🖌️✨ → "Thank You for Sharing Your Pain" by @m_blehaut, curated by The Second-Guess. 🤖🫂 → "Your Existence is Canceled: Issue 2", presented by @cubedekant. 🖼️ → "P.i.x.e.l.l.a.n.d.i.a." by p.i.x.e.l.l.a.r.e., curated by @postanika and presented through objktlabs, transforming photographs into pixel compositions that unfold over time. 🟦📷 → Beyond Silence: Iranian Artists by @OneLoveArtDAO, curated by @svofshahr and @MShahraminia, exploring resilience, hope, censorship, isolation, and personal triumph. 🇮🇷🖼️ → New on @dropdotart: - Emanaciones by @BarbaraBezina - PlateShifters by @flintpope - Paradox Post-Photography Archive by @UzupisMUC → New on @bootloader_art: - Slider, 2026 by @jczobele - 6/:+(/-/ P////< by @llllll__lllllll Image: "stats of wrong karma" by @ttiimmees

I’ve spent a lot of time with “hello world” by @qubibien over the past 8-9 months, first as a collector and then as a researcher. The deeper I looked, the more I felt that “hello world” wasn’t just a beautiful generative artwork. It was a meeting point for decades of experimentation in computer art. Really happy to finally share this with everyone.

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Automat Research is live. Long-form writing on the artists, movements, and works that define digital art. First: qubibi, Hello World. automat.art/research

It might not feel like it but imo the digital art & NFT space is positioned better than ever On the art/artist side, we're seeing: A clear rise in thoughtful, novel and well executed releases that celebrate the networked opportunities that blockchains uniquely provide — and also a rise in those leveraging the skill/creativity/functionality unlocks that AI offers Few examples: - Birds by @nicedayJules x @mungimungimungi - Windows by @dave_krugman - GLiFS by @EfdotStudio - Economy of Words by @jackbutcher x @visualizevalue - Vessel by @stephensantoro_ x @producedbydav - Normies by @serc1n - Terminal Pro by @DXRGai - BrinkWorks by @bryanbrinkman - "Artificial After All" by @hanrgb along with his collab w/ @jalilwahdat + @yougogirl_eth "Hello World Computer" - Psychic Hotline by @oliviapedi w/ @Romenewmedia - @beeple taking over Art Basel and IRL with robots, AI and live performance art + collectible releases Amongst collectors & patrons: • @AdamWeitsman continues to put the space on his back as a patron and builder • @batsoupyum x @musicalnetta deploying both capital, attention and tremendous care to artists • @redbeardnft traveling to a new city/country basically every week to champion digital/crypto artists to major institutions & collectors • @RogerDickerman and team continuing to provide incredible, unwavering coverage of the digital art market via @24_Hours_Art • Dan Sundheim quietly rotating some SpaceX IPO profits into 30+ @cryptopunks On the platform/team side: • Big recent updates from @verse_works that make the market easier to understand + engage with • Major improvements by @SuperRare, experiments with liquid editions / editions, feed UX • @raster_art providing a very clean UX that unifies profiles & work across chains and platforms • @gondixyz continuing to add features that support the secondary art + collectible market • @nodefnd thoughtfully stewarding Punks while supporting other great artists and building bridges to IRL • @opensea's new mobile app development is very strong and could be a great first touch for new collectors/enjoyers • @punk6529 Memes evolving from a curated artist drop into a decentralized networked society • Rekt by @osf_rekt continuing to ship sellout products and global IRL presence evolving from an NFT collection • @Rhynotic x @token_works endless experimentation at the intersection of mad science x NFT infra • @derekedws, @magey_mage and @maltefr_eth continue to intentionally invest in and support artists via @glitchmarfa while nurturing the full set holder community • @artblocks_io + @ArtOnBlockchain representing generative art at Basel, continuing to support great releases and provide space for the community to connect at Marfa 2026 • Just announced + one to watch: @Automatdotart Outside of our 𝕏 bubble we see: • @eli_schein putting on yet another phenomenal Zero 10 exhibition at Basel, this time alongside @trevorpaglen — leading to +$4M (est.) in Artist sales in collab with galleries like @artblocks_io, @fellowshiptrust and @AspreyStudio — many of which seem to be to trad. collectors & institutions • @ArtBasel x UBS reported that digital art's share of the art market increased by 200% from 2024 to 2025 • Awareness, trust and use of stablecoins and neobanks is up only • Signalling taste is up only • Preference for true asset ownership is up only • The TCG market is growing while increasingly behaving like savvy crypto users & digital collectors (See my 𝕏 article for more info) • Teams like @fomo onboarding thousands of new, real users daily, realizing crypto wont grow strictly from CT — a strat that will surely catch on • Massive platforms like @RobinhoodCrypto coming onchain in the wake of @HyperliquidX's success and regulatory + infra clarity/easing • Major AI companies hiring & building teams of digital artists & creators to help create new media formats, technologies and steward taste in an agentic, internet-native world — also seeing creatives with deep roots in the NFT space playing key roles at growing orgs like Prime & Nous • A wave of newly minted millionaires & billionaires in the wake of AI IPOs • Digital products & digital creator patronage outside of crypto are on the rise, signalling both increased valuing of the intangible & preference for directly supporting creators The thread is tangled but the scene it's weaving is clear. The maturation of this space has been steadily accelerating since it first made global waves in 2021 Those within it — artists, patrons, participants, platforms and teams — continue to evolve and build more useful, beautiful and interesting things that exceed previous standards of being "good enough" for CT There are vast numbers of people not yet "here" that are increasingly signalling preference & openness for what crypto, blockchains and digital assets uniquely offer Bridges and infra are being built to and from this industry to support, connect and empower both groups Despite the setbacks and volatility crypto & digital art markets have endured, the stage has never been set this optimally before The future is bright and exciting

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