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6529 Network Museum
The 6529 Network Museum is the public art museum of the 6529 Network. Its permanent Collection brings together digital art and photography held by the Network on Ethereum.
Visitors can explore accepted gifts alongside acquisitions still underway, then follow each work through its artist, project, and accession history.
Current acquisitions
The permanent Collection currently comprises works from three completed acquisitions: The System in Seven States, Conflict at Its Edges, and A Gift of Themes and Variations #210. Keys and Gates is in progress; its sixteen selected photographs await minting and accession.
A Museum curatorial grouping reads seven accessioned Casey Reas works through related computational systems without claiming an artist-defined canonical group.
Accessioned into the permanent Collection
The program’s selected group brings together photographs of access, exclusion, permission, surveillance, custody, autonomy, and exit; selection is complete, while acquisition and minting remain pending.
Selected through an acquisition program; unminted
Five photographs made between 1952 and 2016 approach conflict through borders, religious and domestic space, smoke, ruins, and the uncertain aftermath of violence. Accessioned together from two Magnum Photos 75 curations, they test what documentary evidence can show and what remains unresolved.
Accessioned into the permanent Collection
The Museum accepted Themes and Variations #210, one unique output from the project's fixed edition of 500. The accession records the work as a visual composition and a live, browser-rendered generative program.
Accessioned into the permanent Collection
The Museum's collection, decisions, and institutional records are available for public inspection. Governance and execution are moving progressively on-chain.
How the Museum worksThe Museum collects significant works of digital art, with a particular focus on art native to computation, networks, and the blockchain.
Artists
Read the artist and practice profile, then move through the projects and works held in the collection.
Explore the artistAcquisitions
A public photography program about access, exclusion, permission, surveillance, custody, autonomy, and exit.
Explore the programResearch
Read collection essays, artist research, source records, and the Museum's study of contemporary and digital-art institutions.
Read ResearchAbout the institution
The collection is held by the 6529 Network and governed through TDH. Its artworks are held on Ethereum, while its decisions, records, and operating systems are moving progressively on-chain.
The Museum is building a durable public collection and record, independent of any single website, operator, or interface.
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