On Thursday, a collection of tokenized artwork from the Musée d’Orsay’s first-ever commission of an on-chain exhibition will hit the market—the product of two experimental artists, months of coordination by the museum’s leadership, and thousands of exhales from unknowing strangers.
The pieces, five single-edition NFTs minted on the Tezos blockchain collectively titled “The Convergence of Breath,” are the fruits of an art installation (and partial social experiment) now on display at Musée d’Orsay, which features in the museum’s ongoing, digital-themed exhibition, “Le Code d’Orsay.”
The installation, a steel sculpture titled “Sigma Lumina,” was created by the French artist and DJ Sébastian Devaud (aka Agoria) in collaboration with the artist Johan Lescure.
When hit by the perfect alignment of light from above, the sculpture produces a QR code in its shadow; curious museum patrons who scan the QR code are then directed to mint a unique, free NFT riffing on other Impressionist works on display at the Orsay—but if, and only if, they breathe into their phones to help generate it.
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