Today we're launching the Kickstarter for
@kentocards, the project the whole team at
@objktcom has been building for the past year.
Kento is a new category of collectible card. Physical cards, sold in booster packs, printed with holographic boards, hot foil and spot varnish. Each one carries a digital original by the artist, hidden behind a scratch-off panel on the back.
We built it around the artists. Every artist was paid a commission up front, and every artist receives a share of each pack sold. Backing the campaign doesn't just support the project, it directly supports all 40 artists in the set.
And what a set it is. It spans net-art pioneers like
@UBERMORGEN_COM (making internet art since 1995, shown at the
@newmuseum ,
@SFMOMA and the
@CentrePompidou ) and
@albertinmeunier , whose work entered the Pompidou's collection in 2024. Artists whose pieces hang in museum collections from Atlanta to Dartmouth. GIF makers like
@haydiroket , whose loops have been viewed more than 15 billion times on GIPHY. Generative botanists, pixel poets, glitch artists who showed at
@tate Britain, viral animators, and two artists who joined the set through our open call.
The cards give each work a frame, but the originals span everything the web can hold: illustration, photography, pixel art, generative code, 3D models, animation, and fully interactive pieces that run in the browser. Explore the whole set at
kento.art.
@Kickstarter has already named the campaign a Project We Love. Extremely proud of everyone involved. The campaign is live now, and your support means a lot. 👇
kickstarter.com/projects/obj…