Artist Talk: Lick Pic
Sarah Friend and Yehwan Song join Associate Curator of Media Arts, Regina Harsanyi for a conversation on "Lick Pic", the current Schlosser Media Wall commission on display at Museum of the Moving Image, sponsored by the Tezos Foundation.
"Lick Pic" connects collecting, commerce, and screen dependence through a shared theme of desire. Triggered by sales on the contemporary marketplace objkt, documentation of selected objects from MoMI’s collection rotate alongside three fictional variants, testing what is perceived as the genuine object of desire. Across the way, Song’s “licking machines” make lustful devotion literal: mechanical tongues slowly smear pixels across touchscreens, dissolving the image.
On the occasion of the installation, the talk traces the work’s focus on economy of ownership as an erotic act, foregrounding the frictions between museum custody and the market’s pulse, with both artists present for the discussion.
Collect a free process image from Lick Pick https://liveminting.objkt.com/claim/42336e1b-2630-463e-98c6-aa201823a31c
About MoMI x Tezos
After a successful 2024-2025, the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the Tezos Foundation expanded their partnership for 2025-2026. The partnership features a new series of artists commissions exploring blockchain as a creative material, with a focus on FA2 smart contracts, a standardized framework in the Tezos ecosystem that allows anyone to create and manage different digital assets.
In addition to artist projects, a public workshop track, the FA2 Fellowship, invites a broader community of artists to engage with FA2 through hands-on instruction, mentorship, and guided development. Complementing these two components, the program also includes a series of two live events, featuring performances and time-based pieces.
Learn more:
https://movingimage.org/event/lick-pic/
https://momixtezos.art/
This program is part of Open Worlds 2026 at MoMI. Programmatic support for Open Worlds 2026 is provided by the NY City Council, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Bank of America, the William Fox Jr. Foundation, NYSCA, and the Office of the Queensborough President.