Tezos announces giveaway of 3,200 NFTs at India Art Fair

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Tezos announces giveaway of 3,200 NFTs at India Art Fair

The Tezos platform has announced a giveaway of 3,200 NFTs at the India Art Fair this year.

The Art Fair is scheduled to open for public view on February 9. Tezos will display a large-scale computational art installation at the fair titled Computational Convergence. The installation will showcase generative NFT artwork by four artists: Kartick Dondeti, Pixelkar, Aranya and KALA. Visitors can collect the NFTs on their phones, and collect them on the TezosBlockchain.

We have kept the collection system simple. The process will be facilitated via a QR code, leading to a 3 step process. Tezos India's team will be there to assist people in creating a wallet and collecting the algorithmically generated work. These works can be collected free of cost until sold out, when they are available on the secondary market via fx hash and objkt.com. Varun Desai, head of Tezos India Art and Culture, told Business Today. fxhash is an open platform where artists can publish Generative Tokens that are stored on the Tezos blockchain.

Generative art on the blockchain is a type of digital art that is generated using algorithms and mathematical processes and recorded on a platform. This combination of generative art and the use of blockchain technology creates a new way for artists to sell their work and collectors to acquire unique digital assets. In the case of generative art on a blockchain, the artwork is stored as an NFT Non-Fungible Token on a blockchain, which allows for the ownership and authenticity of the artwork to be verified and recorded on a decentralized ledger. At the fair, Tezos India will have four 8 foot-high kiosks with 800 editions of digital generative NFT art from each artist, totaling 3,200 unique algorithmically generated masterpieces that fair visitors can freely collect via smartphones during this year's India Art Fair.

Tezos India is organising a workshop called Computational Thinking for artists who want to explore how to apply computational techniques to enhance artistic practice and create more innovative works, Desai said. The installation will feature a giant infographic on the history of computational art. This project aims to raise awareness of art forms by showing the whole spectrum of computational art practice over the decades, with an emphasis on fx hash on the TezosBlockchain.

The artists are the ones who are most famous for their work.

All four artists have strong fundamentals in computational art. Karthik Dondeti is an architect and generative artist based in Bangalore. Pixelkar is a computational artist from India who combines art, design, and technology in his work. Kala is a multidisciplinary new media artist who works with art and technology, according to Desai.