TL;DR:

• Marfa: Three major events with glitch Gallery, including Justin Aversano's Moments of the Unknown, the shiddy county fair with diewiththemostlikes, and the first live generative art game show using Juno. Bryan Brinkman takes the crown.

• Juno: Artists are experimenting with interactive works such as Samba, CIPHER, and Hope You Can See It in My Eyes. Try Juno and build dynamic digital art → https://juno.transient.xyz/

• Product Updates: Metadata editing is now live for 721 and 1155 tokens. New navigation, improved discovery and filters on Transient.xyz, and smoother browsing. Burn and Redeem for editions is coming next.

• Transient Curated: Diane Lindo's Imagination continues to shine with 10 of 14 collected. New highlights from Ana María Caballero, Paul Reid, and Giulio Aprin, including museum placements, major collectors, and a five-year 100-photo Sahara series.

• Featured Drops: A strong month across the ecosystem including Carlo the Curator's Pephistory sell out, Guido Di Salle's Anachronism, Hash Inc's Plinths, Cory Van Lew's interactive 777 MENU, and Philheal's narrative world in Ripples.

Marfa

From Marco, our co-founder:

The energy in Marfa was undeniable. We’ve believed in the power of bringing people together for a long time, and it’s clear that the world is finally emerging from the purely online, post-COVID era. There’s a real, collective desire for in-person connection again. We’ve seen it at Heft and Offline Gallery in NYC, and Art Blocks Weekend in Marfa was no exception.

We put on three events with our great partners at glitch Gallery →

'Moments of the Unknown' exhibition by Justin Aversano with glitch Gallery

Moments of the Unknown is a cinematic portrait of humanity. Over 366 days, Justin traveled across the seven seas and seven continents to create ten-second portraits of people from all over the world. To express the unity of humanity and honor their diverse cultures, woven together through moving images and the passage of time worldwide.

shiddy county fair in collaboration with diewiththemostlikes and glitch Gallery

The agenda? Slow burn bbq, beerz + wizard staffs, xxxtreme activities, gristle buddee depravity, a relay race, and dread. The green team obliterated the relay race and took the trophy of dunking die into the abyss. Thanks to ApeChain and glitch Gallery. 

‘Prompt Me If You Can’, the first-ever, live generative art game show

In collaboration with glitch Gallery and ApeChain, twelve artists went head-to-head in Juno, with live audience participation and voting. The artists: Bryan Brinkman, Mitchell Chan, DCA, Emily Edelman, Efdot, Tribute Labs (Priyanka and Aaron), Dave Krugman, Maya Man, Steve Pikelny, Rebecca Rose, Tyler Hobbs, and Vinnie Hager. The room was lively as AKAStevey and Ben Roy offered live commentary on the competition. 

At the end of four hotly contested rounds, Bryan Brinkman was crowned the ‘greatest generative artist of all time’. To everyone else, there’s always next year!

Juno

Artists are reimagining what digital art can be with Juno. Newly crowned champion Bryan Brinkman built a living dance in Samba (2025), Tana Marie hid binary puzzles in CIPHER, and ColourAddict turned surreal portraiture into a puzzle in Hope You Can See It in My Eyes. Each piece shows how creators are using Juno to bring their ideas to life through interactivity, logic, and motion. Your next experiment is one click away.

Product Updates:

We’ve been busy polishing the experience so you can create, discover, and collect with ease.

• Self-service Metadata updates: Artists can now update title, description, thumbnail, main media, and traits for ERC-721 and ERC-1155 tokens on contracts deployed after March 23, 2025. 

• Discovery updates on Transient.xyz: 

  • Improved Navigation: new Home button in the top bar

  • Filter by Sale Status, Chain, and Sort by Newest, Oldest, Trending, Price

  • Improved Discoverability for Transient Curated and Featured Exhibition pages 

  • Various improvements to token pages and collection pages

• Coming soon: Burn & Redeem for editions. 

Transient Curated:

October brought a rich spectrum of Curated releases, from handcrafted stop-motion and poetic stills to mythic narrative and documentary portraiture across the Sahara.

• Imagination by Diane Lindo continues to enchant. The series of hand-crafted stop-motion videos blends punk energy with surreal reflection, and 10 of the 14 works have already been collected. Every piece is lively, oscillating between fantasy and the subconscious.

• Pace Stills by Ana María Caballero: Following the acquisitions of her work Ropa Sucia by Museo Reina Sofía and Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, a digital edition of Caballero’s new work Pace was collected by HEK Basel. A small number of Pace digital works are available through Transient Curated. Please enquire to view the exhibition page or for more information.

• Farewell and a Black Sail by Paul Reid sailed to its new home, collected by Basileus for 3.33 ETH. As Canto II in ARIADNE’S THREAD, it deepens the Minotaur’s journey beyond myth into memory. The next Cantos are already stirring.

• People of the Sahara by Giulio Aprin captures five years of life across Mauritania, Libya, and Algeria through 100 striking black-and-white photographs. Each image reflects trust, time, and genuine encounters with the desert’s communities. It is a rare, human portrait of vastness and resilience. Collect the series now, with all works available for 0.088 ETH each.

Featured Drops:

From reimagined art history to living compositions and narrative worlds, these recent drops show the range of creativity unfolding across our ecosystem.

• Pephistory by Carlo the Curator reimagines the entire history of art through a playful and reverent lens. Across nine chapters and 100 works, Carlo transforms masterpieces from Giotto to Picasso into witty reinterpretations featuring the modern pop-culture symbol Pepe the Frog. It is both a love letter and a satire, a reminder that humor and history can coexist in the same frame. The collection sold out, with all 100 pieces collected for a total of 1.06 ETH.

• Anachronism by Guido Di’Salle is a 333-piece series that reinterprets the Renaissance through the lens of machine vision. This collection blends AI generation with artistic intuition, transforming classical art into a reflection on technology, memory, and reinterpretation, while exploring how art history might fracture under the influence of foresight. Presented in collaboration with AOTM Gallery, Anachronism bridges centuries of creative evolution and poses a single, enduring question: what happens when the tools of progress gaze back at us? Post-mint listings are available directly from the artist on OpenSea.

• Plinths by Hash Inc explores the emotional architecture of being human through seven sculptural forms, each representing a distinct state between euphoria and depression. Exhibited at glitch Marfa, the series bridges the digital and physical spaces, with every plinth paired with its onchain blueprint. All seven works were acquired for 1 ETH each.

• 777 Menu by Cory Van Lew transforms a simple animated image into an interactive digital artwork built with Juno. Collectors can toggle layers of color, glow, and texture to create their own visual remix, turning the piece into a living composition. 777 MENU sold 10 editions in 48 hours, totaling 0.77 ETH.

• Ripples by Philheal unfolds as an interactive storytelling experiment across the world of Ala, where each 1/1 artwork reveals a chapter from the captain’s log of an explorer crossing mythic lands. Every bid grants a map fragment edition that can be burned to assemble a complete map, uncovering hidden locations and stories within the series. Five of ten works remain, each available at a 0.1 ETH reserve.

Media & More:

• Friday Art Shares: We feature our favorite artworks every Friday via our Art Share Threads: Week 1, Week 2, and Week 3. 

• The ‘greatest generative artist of all-time’ reveal from Prompt Me If You Can

• ‘People of the Sahara’ video: A short video exploring Giulio Aprin’s newest collection of photographs and the five-year journey through the desert it took to take them.

Keep creating. Reply with your ideas or questions!

All the best,

The Transient Labs Team