A 100,000-square-foot museum in a Kansas college town of 55,000 people is about to host one of the most significant generative art exhibitions assembled to date.

The Museum of Art + Light in Manhattan, Kansas will open EMULATION: Selections from the Art Blocks 500 on March 4, 2026, bringing together 10 internationally recognized artists who write code as their primary creative medium. The show marks Art Blocks’ completion of its 500th flagship project in late 2025, closing what the Ethereum-based platform calls “a foundational era in on-chain generative art.”

The museum opened on November 8, 2024, with an inaugural exhibition called Code & Canvas: Defining Digital Art in the Age of Blockchain, featuring Art Blocks founder Erick Calderon and generative artist Tyler Hobbs. EMULATION goes considerably wider, drawing from five years of projects across Art Blocks’ Curated, Playground, Factory, Presents, Collaborations, and Explorations categories.

The roster spans a wide range of approaches to code-based art. Kelly Milligan, Carolina Melis, Harvey Rayner, Grant Oesterling, Anthony Hiley-Mann (MountVitruvius), Sterling Crispin, Licia He, Iskra Velitchkova, Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez, and Loie Hollowell work across algorithmic drawing, interactive systems, textile translation, machine intelligence, and conceptual abstraction, according to the museum’s press release. Each piece is generated by the artist’s algorithm at the moment of execution, meaning no two outputs are alike.

“This exhibition highlights artists who are using code not as a novelty, but as a deeply intentional medium,” Erin Dragotto, the museum’s executive director, said in the press release. “One capable of carrying history, emotion, and experimentation forward in meaningful ways.”

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Feb 17, 2026