Onchain Artist Residency
Origin Of Primary Source
Open Call
Origin Of Primary Source: A three-month remote residency exploring contemporary art, blockchain documentation and creative archives.
Residency source document
Origin Of Primary Source
Working within OOPS as a conceptual framework, the residency invites practices that consider how artworks are produced, documented, translated, and encountered through digital systems.
Applications close on August 15, 2026
The Onchain Artist Residency is an open call for artists to engage with questions of technology, mediation, documentation, and access. Structured as a remote residency with designed online community engagements, it supports the development of research-led practices at the intersection of contemporary art and digital culture.
At the centre of this edition is OOPS, a framework that brings attention to origin, source material, archival form, and the systems through which artworks are organised and made legible. The residency is especially relevant for artists interested in how blockchain and related digital infrastructures might function not only as technical tools, but as conceptual and curatorial conditions.
What the residency is about
Selected artists will be invited to work across interrelated disciplines:
- The role of technology in shaping artistic production.
- Blockchain as a mode of documentation and archival practice.
- The translation of references and source materials into digital formats.
- The development of methodologies for organising creative data.
- The use of datasets to open new ways of accessing, interpreting, and experiencing artworks.