In 2023, Art Blocks and Bright Moments announced a partnership to launch groundbreaking art through the interactive and in-person network of galleries and community experiences pioneered by Bright Moments.
By holding virtual and in-person events around the globe, each project is given the opportunity to emerge in a unique environment, making accessibility and IRL viewership a core component of the opportunity to engage with the works.
About Bright Moments
Bright Moments is a digital art gallery that started in Venice Beach, and has gone on to establish crypto art communities around the world through the creation of live IRL minting experiences.
Organized as a DAO, Bright Moments is on a journey to mint 10,000 CryptoCitizens and work with generative and AI artists to help them produce iconic real-world experiences of their art. Find out more at www.brightmoments.io.
Art Blocks × Bright Moments Partnership
923 Empty Rooms by Casey Reas
923 Empty Rooms is a new artwork that builds on Casey Reas’ previous work, An Empty Room—commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2023—which is about simulation and the history of visual representation and abstraction. His ideas about kinetic art and a “binary plastic language” are central, but the project also contains longer threads into the history of perspective and cubism.
The essence of 923 Empty Rooms is the selection of one shape or “colorform” for each Bright Moments location: Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Tokyo. The underlying algorithm combines these six colorforms to create 923 outputs represented as a single onchain collection.
Beginning on August 14th, 923 Empty Rooms will be available on the Art Blocks website via dutch auction. The collection will be minted over the course of six days, with each day representing ⅙ of the collection associated with a specific colorform.
Collectors can visit Bright Moments galleries throughout the week to view the longform outputs of the 923 Empty Rooms algorithm. The global exhibition begins in Tokyo and concludes in Los Angeles on August 19th:
- Monday, August 14: 154 Tokyo colorforms
- Tuesday, August 15: 154 Berlin colorforms
- Wednesday, August 16: 154 London colorforms
- Thursday, August 17: 154 New York colorforms
- Friday, August 18: 154 Mexico City colorforms
- Saturday, August 19: 153 Los Angeles colorforms
“When I hear the name Casey Reas, I think of generative art. I mean, I don’t know if there’s anybody more central to the space than Casey is.” —Tyler Hobbs
“It’s amazing seeing what Casey’s been doing with LACMA and with his ’Empty Room’ project, and I’m excited to see how he continues to take this project and expand on it in different ways.” —Matt DesLauriers
“To me, Casey is like the godfather of all the things that we do on a daily basis” —Erick Calderon
“In generative art now, longform generative art, you don’t see the whole system. You see random littles bits and pieces of the algorithmic space. I think what’s interesting about his approach for ’923 Empty Rooms’ is it’s the complete expression of all the combinations that are possible.” —Jeff Davis
Each Bright Moments gallery will receive the primary colorform associated with its location, leaving 917 total algorithmic combinations available for collectors—New York, Berlin, London, Mexico City and Tokyo will have 154 combinations with the primary colorform, while Los Angeles will have 153.
At the conclusion of the final sale, any wallets holding a “full set” with a colorform from each city will be added to a claim list for a special mint from the artist to commemorate the collection.
Interested in minting this week? You can find out more here.
Metropolis by MPKOZ
Metropolis is a long-form generative art collection exploring the node-based systems that enable and possess modern society. These literal and theoretical systems are critical to computing, blockchains, logistics, and, most apparently, the formation and function of cities. The style of Metropolis is heavily influenced by cubism and abstract expressionism. Technically, the project emulates painting photorealistically within an on-chain algorithm.
Metropolis extended beyond online distribution via individual exhibitions at the five Bright Moments gallery locations around the world. The five primary traits—New York City, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Los Angeles—stylistically represent their respective city. While Metropolis had a total count of up to 1000 mints, only the first 500 were made available for sale. The first 500 pieces came with the ability to mint a second unique, but visually related piece, for free—creating a diptych. To claim the second mint, the owner generated a QR code via the Bright Moments portal and took it to the Bright Moments gallery in the city dictated by its respective city trait on the date of the city’s exhibition.
In 2023, Art Blocks and Bright Moments announced a partnership to launch groundbreaking art through the interactive and in-person network of galleries and community experiences pioneered by Bright Moments.
By holding virtual and in-person events around the globe, each project is given the opportunity to emerge in a unique environment, making accessibility and IRL viewership a core component of the opportunity to engage with the works.
About Bright Moments
Bright Moments is a digital art gallery that started in Venice Beach, and has gone on to establish crypto art communities around the world through the creation of live IRL minting experiences.
Organized as a DAO, Bright Moments is on a journey to mint 10,000 CryptoCitizens and work with generative and AI artists to help them produce iconic real-world experiences of their art. Find out more at www.brightmoments.io.
Art Blocks × Bright Moments Partnership
923 Empty Rooms by Casey Reas
923 Empty Rooms is a new artwork that builds on Casey Reas’ previous work, An Empty Room—commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2023—which is about simulation and the history of visual representation and abstraction. His ideas about kinetic art and a “binary plastic language” are central, but the project also contains longer threads into the history of perspective and cubism.
The essence of 923 Empty Rooms is the selection of one shape or “colorform” for each Bright Moments location: Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Tokyo. The underlying algorithm combines these six colorforms to create 923 outputs represented as a single onchain collection.
Beginning on August 14th, 923 Empty Rooms will be available on the Art Blocks website via dutch auction. The collection will be minted over the course of six days, with each day representing ⅙ of the collection associated with a specific colorform.
Collectors can visit Bright Moments galleries throughout the week to view the longform outputs of the 923 Empty Rooms algorithm. The global exhibition begins in Tokyo and concludes in Los Angeles on August 19th:
- Monday, August 14: 154 Tokyo colorforms
- Tuesday, August 15: 154 Berlin colorforms
- Wednesday, August 16: 154 London colorforms
- Thursday, August 17: 154 New York colorforms
- Friday, August 18: 154 Mexico City colorforms
- Saturday, August 19: 153 Los Angeles colorforms
“When I hear the name Casey Reas, I think of generative art. I mean, I don’t know if there’s anybody more central to the space than Casey is.” —Tyler Hobbs
“It’s amazing seeing what Casey’s been doing with LACMA and with his ’Empty Room’ project, and I’m excited to see how he continues to take this project and expand on it in different ways.” —Matt DesLauriers
“To me, Casey is like the godfather of all the things that we do on a daily basis” —Erick Calderon
“In generative art now, longform generative art, you don’t see the whole system. You see random littles bits and pieces of the algorithmic space. I think what’s interesting about his approach for ’923 Empty Rooms’ is it’s the complete expression of all the combinations that are possible.” —Jeff Davis
Each Bright Moments gallery will receive the primary colorform associated with its location, leaving 917 total algorithmic combinations available for collectors—New York, Berlin, London, Mexico City and Tokyo will have 154 combinations with the primary colorform, while Los Angeles will have 153.
At the conclusion of the final sale, any wallets holding a “full set” with a colorform from each city will be added to a claim list for a special mint from the artist to commemorate the collection.
Interested in minting this week? You can find out more here.
Metropolis by MPKOZ
Metropolis is a long-form generative art collection exploring the node-based systems that enable and possess modern society. These literal and theoretical systems are critical to computing, blockchains, logistics, and, most apparently, the formation and function of cities. The style of Metropolis is heavily influenced by cubism and abstract expressionism. Technically, the project emulates painting photorealistically within an on-chain algorithm.
Metropolis extended beyond online distribution via individual exhibitions at the five Bright Moments gallery locations around the world. The five primary traits—New York City, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Los Angeles—stylistically represent their respective city. While Metropolis had a total count of up to 1000 mints, only the first 500 were made available for sale. The first 500 pieces came with the ability to mint a second unique, but visually related piece, for free—creating a diptych. To claim the second mint, the owner generated a QR code via the Bright Moments portal and took it to the Bright Moments gallery in the city dictated by its respective city trait on the date of the city’s exhibition.
In 2023, Art Blocks and Bright Moments announced a partnership to launch groundbreaking art through the interactive and in-person network of galleries and community experiences pioneered by Bright Moments.
By holding virtual and in-person events around the globe, each project is given the opportunity to emerge in a unique environment, making accessibility and IRL viewership a core component of the opportunity to engage with the works.
About Bright Moments
Bright Moments is a digital art gallery that started in Venice Beach, and has gone on to establish crypto art communities around the world through the creation of live IRL minting experiences.
Organized as a DAO, Bright Moments is on a journey to mint 10,000 CryptoCitizens and work with generative and AI artists to help them produce iconic real-world experiences of their art. Find out more at www.brightmoments.io.
Art Blocks × Bright Moments Partnership
923 Empty Rooms by Casey Reas
923 Empty Rooms is a new artwork that builds on Casey Reas’ previous work, An Empty Room—commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2023—which is about simulation and the history of visual representation and abstraction. His ideas about kinetic art and a “binary plastic language” are central, but the project also contains longer threads into the history of perspective and cubism.
The essence of 923 Empty Rooms is the selection of one shape or “colorform” for each Bright Moments location: Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Tokyo. The underlying algorithm combines these six colorforms to create 923 outputs represented as a single onchain collection.
Beginning on August 14th, 923 Empty Rooms will be available on the Art Blocks website via dutch auction. The collection will be minted over the course of six days, with each day representing ⅙ of the collection associated with a specific colorform.
Collectors can visit Bright Moments galleries throughout the week to view the longform outputs of the 923 Empty Rooms algorithm. The global exhibition begins in Tokyo and concludes in Los Angeles on August 19th:
- Monday, August 14: 154 Tokyo colorforms
- Tuesday, August 15: 154 Berlin colorforms
- Wednesday, August 16: 154 London colorforms
- Thursday, August 17: 154 New York colorforms
- Friday, August 18: 154 Mexico City colorforms
- Saturday, August 19: 153 Los Angeles colorforms
“When I hear the name Casey Reas, I think of generative art. I mean, I don’t know if there’s anybody more central to the space than Casey is.” —Tyler Hobbs
“It’s amazing seeing what Casey’s been doing with LACMA and with his ’Empty Room’ project, and I’m excited to see how he continues to take this project and expand on it in different ways.” —Matt DesLauriers
“To me, Casey is like the godfather of all the things that we do on a daily basis” —Erick Calderon
“In generative art now, longform generative art, you don’t see the whole system. You see random littles bits and pieces of the algorithmic space. I think what’s interesting about his approach for ’923 Empty Rooms’ is it’s the complete expression of all the combinations that are possible.” —Jeff Davis
Each Bright Moments gallery will receive the primary colorform associated with its location, leaving 917 total algorithmic combinations available for collectors—New York, Berlin, London, Mexico City and Tokyo will have 154 combinations with the primary colorform, while Los Angeles will have 153.
At the conclusion of the final sale, any wallets holding a “full set” with a colorform from each city will be added to a claim list for a special mint from the artist to commemorate the collection.
Interested in minting this week? You can find out more here.
Metropolis by MPKOZ
Metropolis is a long-form generative art collection exploring the node-based systems that enable and possess modern society. These literal and theoretical systems are critical to computing, blockchains, logistics, and, most apparently, the formation and function of cities. The style of Metropolis is heavily influenced by cubism and abstract expressionism. Technically, the project emulates painting photorealistically within an on-chain algorithm.
Metropolis extended beyond online distribution via individual exhibitions at the five Bright Moments gallery locations around the world. The five primary traits—New York City, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Los Angeles—stylistically represent their respective city. While Metropolis had a total count of up to 1000 mints, only the first 500 were made available for sale. The first 500 pieces came with the ability to mint a second unique, but visually related piece, for free—creating a diptych. To claim the second mint, the owner generated a QR code via the Bright Moments portal and took it to the Bright Moments gallery in the city dictated by its respective city trait on the date of the city’s exhibition.
In 2023, Art Blocks and Bright Moments announced a partnership to launch groundbreaking art through the interactive and in-person network of galleries and community experiences pioneered by Bright Moments.
By holding virtual and in-person events around the globe, each project is given the opportunity to emerge in a unique environment, making accessibility and IRL viewership a core component of the opportunity to engage with the works.
About Bright Moments
Bright Moments is a digital art gallery that started in Venice Beach, and has gone on to establish crypto art communities around the world through the creation of live IRL minting experiences.
Organized as a DAO, Bright Moments is on a journey to mint 10,000 CryptoCitizens and work with generative and AI artists to help them produce iconic real-world experiences of their art. Find out more at www.brightmoments.io.
Art Blocks × Bright Moments Partnership
923 Empty Rooms by Casey Reas
923 Empty Rooms is a new artwork that builds on Casey Reas’ previous work, An Empty Room—commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2023—which is about simulation and the history of visual representation and abstraction. His ideas about kinetic art and a “binary plastic language” are central, but the project also contains longer threads into the history of perspective and cubism.
The essence of 923 Empty Rooms is the selection of one shape or “colorform” for each Bright Moments location: Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Tokyo. The underlying algorithm combines these six colorforms to create 923 outputs represented as a single onchain collection.
Beginning on August 14th, 923 Empty Rooms will be available on the Art Blocks website via dutch auction. The collection will be minted over the course of six days, with each day representing ⅙ of the collection associated with a specific colorform.
Collectors can visit Bright Moments galleries throughout the week to view the longform outputs of the 923 Empty Rooms algorithm. The global exhibition begins in Tokyo and concludes in Los Angeles on August 19th:
- Monday, August 14: 154 Tokyo colorforms
- Tuesday, August 15: 154 Berlin colorforms
- Wednesday, August 16: 154 London colorforms
- Thursday, August 17: 154 New York colorforms
- Friday, August 18: 154 Mexico City colorforms
- Saturday, August 19: 153 Los Angeles colorforms
“When I hear the name Casey Reas, I think of generative art. I mean, I don’t know if there’s anybody more central to the space than Casey is.” —Tyler Hobbs
“It’s amazing seeing what Casey’s been doing with LACMA and with his ’Empty Room’ project, and I’m excited to see how he continues to take this project and expand on it in different ways.” —Matt DesLauriers
“To me, Casey is like the godfather of all the things that we do on a daily basis” —Erick Calderon
“In generative art now, longform generative art, you don’t see the whole system. You see random littles bits and pieces of the algorithmic space. I think what’s interesting about his approach for ’923 Empty Rooms’ is it’s the complete expression of all the combinations that are possible.” —Jeff Davis
Each Bright Moments gallery will receive the primary colorform associated with its location, leaving 917 total algorithmic combinations available for collectors—New York, Berlin, London, Mexico City and Tokyo will have 154 combinations with the primary colorform, while Los Angeles will have 153.
At the conclusion of the final sale, any wallets holding a “full set” with a colorform from each city will be added to a claim list for a special mint from the artist to commemorate the collection.
Interested in minting this week? You can find out more here.
Metropolis by MPKOZ
Metropolis is a long-form generative art collection exploring the node-based systems that enable and possess modern society. These literal and theoretical systems are critical to computing, blockchains, logistics, and, most apparently, the formation and function of cities. The style of Metropolis is heavily influenced by cubism and abstract expressionism. Technically, the project emulates painting photorealistically within an on-chain algorithm.
Metropolis extended beyond online distribution via individual exhibitions at the five Bright Moments gallery locations around the world. The five primary traits—New York City, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Los Angeles—stylistically represent their respective city. While Metropolis had a total count of up to 1000 mints, only the first 500 were made available for sale. The first 500 pieces came with the ability to mint a second unique, but visually related piece, for free—creating a diptych. To claim the second mint, the owner generated a QR code via the Bright Moments portal and took it to the Bright Moments gallery in the city dictated by its respective city trait on the date of the city’s exhibition.
In 2023, Art Blocks and Bright Moments announced a partnership to launch groundbreaking art through the interactive and in-person network of galleries and community experiences pioneered by Bright Moments.
By holding virtual and in-person events around the globe, each project is given the opportunity to emerge in a unique environment, making accessibility and IRL viewership a core component of the opportunity to engage with the works.
About Bright Moments
Bright Moments is a digital art gallery that started in Venice Beach, and has gone on to establish crypto art communities around the world through the creation of live IRL minting experiences.
Organized as a DAO, Bright Moments is on a journey to mint 10,000 CryptoCitizens and work with generative and AI artists to help them produce iconic real-world experiences of their art. Find out more at www.brightmoments.io.
Art Blocks × Bright Moments Partnership
923 Empty Rooms by Casey Reas
923 Empty Rooms is a new artwork that builds on Casey Reas’ previous work, An Empty Room—commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2023—which is about simulation and the history of visual representation and abstraction. His ideas about kinetic art and a “binary plastic language” are central, but the project also contains longer threads into the history of perspective and cubism.
The essence of 923 Empty Rooms is the selection of one shape or “colorform” for each Bright Moments location: Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Tokyo. The underlying algorithm combines these six colorforms to create 923 outputs represented as a single onchain collection.
Beginning on August 14th, 923 Empty Rooms will be available on the Art Blocks website via dutch auction. The collection will be minted over the course of six days, with each day representing ⅙ of the collection associated with a specific colorform.
Collectors can visit Bright Moments galleries throughout the week to view the longform outputs of the 923 Empty Rooms algorithm. The global exhibition begins in Tokyo and concludes in Los Angeles on August 19th:
- Monday, August 14: 154 Tokyo colorforms
- Tuesday, August 15: 154 Berlin colorforms
- Wednesday, August 16: 154 London colorforms
- Thursday, August 17: 154 New York colorforms
- Friday, August 18: 154 Mexico City colorforms
- Saturday, August 19: 153 Los Angeles colorforms
“When I hear the name Casey Reas, I think of generative art. I mean, I don’t know if there’s anybody more central to the space than Casey is.” —Tyler Hobbs
“It’s amazing seeing what Casey’s been doing with LACMA and with his ’Empty Room’ project, and I’m excited to see how he continues to take this project and expand on it in different ways.” —Matt DesLauriers
“To me, Casey is like the godfather of all the things that we do on a daily basis” —Erick Calderon
“In generative art now, longform generative art, you don’t see the whole system. You see random littles bits and pieces of the algorithmic space. I think what’s interesting about his approach for ’923 Empty Rooms’ is it’s the complete expression of all the combinations that are possible.” —Jeff Davis
Each Bright Moments gallery will receive the primary colorform associated with its location, leaving 917 total algorithmic combinations available for collectors—New York, Berlin, London, Mexico City and Tokyo will have 154 combinations with the primary colorform, while Los Angeles will have 153.
At the conclusion of the final sale, any wallets holding a “full set” with a colorform from each city will be added to a claim list for a special mint from the artist to commemorate the collection.
Interested in minting this week? You can find out more here.
Metropolis by MPKOZ
Metropolis is a long-form generative art collection exploring the node-based systems that enable and possess modern society. These literal and theoretical systems are critical to computing, blockchains, logistics, and, most apparently, the formation and function of cities. The style of Metropolis is heavily influenced by cubism and abstract expressionism. Technically, the project emulates painting photorealistically within an on-chain algorithm.
Metropolis extended beyond online distribution via individual exhibitions at the five Bright Moments gallery locations around the world. The five primary traits—New York City, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Los Angeles—stylistically represent their respective city. While Metropolis had a total count of up to 1000 mints, only the first 500 were made available for sale. The first 500 pieces came with the ability to mint a second unique, but visually related piece, for free—creating a diptych. To claim the second mint, the owner generated a QR code via the Bright Moments portal and took it to the Bright Moments gallery in the city dictated by its respective city trait on the date of the city’s exhibition.
