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Here for the Art for Real

Examining MakingIt 24/7, a Crypto Art Collective as Grounded in the Past as it is the Future By Maxwell Cohen Tabbed Out (2023), by SubtleBubble. In collection of robapuros Imagine the cro-magnon artist, dutifully wiping a finger through some concoction of berry juices and mud, tracing lines on the sweeping red walls of a sandstone cave. The […]

From Our Collection: Alotta Money’s “Last Luncheon On the Grass”

by Maxwell Cohen From Our Collection is a monthly essay series featuring analysis of the pieces in the Museum of Crypto Art’s Genesis Collection. All essays originally published on the MOCA Forum, where we invite you in to read, explore, and comment on our 240+ crypto art essays. “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (1863), Édouard Manet. Oil on […]

Breastfeeding the Blockchain

OONA and Lori Baldwin’s “Milking the Artist” Provides Crypto Art Some Much Needed Nourishment By Maxwell Cohen I. The Context We’re certainly an arrogant art movement, aren’t we? We uniformly preach crypto art’s importance. As a new paradigm for artists. As an unprecedented aesthetic movement. As the next big thing. We’re striking fear into the traditional art […]

The Concept of Qualia in Practice:

Claire Silver Discusses a Few of Her Works The following is the condensed and lightly-edited transcription of a conversation between Claire Silver (@ClaireSilver12) and Maxwell Cohen (@cohenthewriter) recorded in November 2022. Cohen: I was hoping we could go through a few of your works, and I’d love to know: Is there a story behind them, is there […]

Claire Silver Remembers Everything

And Helps us Do the Same (an Essay in III Parts) By Maxwell Cohen Part I: Old Memories I remember my childhood as orange. Or blue. And I best remember autumn: crisp air and the smell of leaf mold, baking spices, bakery-scented candles. Also, eating winter snow whilst waiting at the bus stop. Tulip planters on the porch […]

The Concept of Qualia: A Sitdown with Claire Silver

CohentheWriter Interviews the AI Art Virtuoso By Maxwell Cohen What else can I say about Claire Silver that others (and others and others) haven’t already? Few artists will throughout their lifetimes become as synonymous with an art movement as Ms. Silver has with AI Artistry throughout just the past few years. Today, her pink-haired Cryptopunk is among […]

The Discovery of Math: A Sitdown with Daïm Aggot-Hönsch (Part 1)

CohentheWriter Chats with the Algorist, Apeirographer, and AI Artist Whenever we talk about “generative” or “algorithmic” art, we’re really talking about different expressions of computer software. And at their most basic level, computers conduct themselves in the binary language, ones and zeroes. All that artistry — and to a greater extent than we realize — yet another manifestation of mathematics. […]

M○C△ Into 2022

After a year of building and expanding, our team is moving forward with a grand vision for the future. □︎❒︎ ⬥︎♏︎ ︎●︎●︎ ◆︎⬧︎⧫︎ ♎︎□︎ ⬧︎□︎❍︎♏︎ ♍︎❒︎♋︎⌘︎♓︎♏︎❒︎ ⬧︎⧫︎◆︎♐︎♐︎ ⧫︎♒︎♋︎⧫︎ ⬥︎♏︎ ⬥︎□︎■︎ ︎⧫︎ ⧫︎♏︎●︎●︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎ ♋︎♌︎□︎◆︎⧫︎ Community Ladder, Phase 2 The Community Ladder gets over $400,000 in $MOCA into the hands of the most active NFT communities and their […]

the wound of the two-dimensional space

by Ludovica Rosi Sarah Meyohas, Speculations The space is in a critical period. Art continues its natural evolution. Ideas change, and thinkers and artists express them. “All things are born of necessity and are of value in their age.” The system which directs society and the living conditions of each individual is transformed. A new […]

M○C△’s PRESENTLY DECENTRALIZED FUTURE

At its inception, the Museum of Crypto Art was focused on preservation and recognition. We wanted to ensure that the crypto art world as it existed before December of 2020 — its creators, collectors, works, and touchstones — were recorded forever. We hoped that incoming artists and audiences would eternally use M○C△ as an encyclopedia of who was here […]

Enter the M○C△verse
We invite you to visit our very own virtual world! The Mocaverse is a web-based, multiplayer application built through Hyperfy.io. Here, we host art exhibitions and community events, and we innovate new ways to connect crypto art with the burgeoning Metaverse. We invite you to visit our very own virtual world! The Mocaverse is a web-based, multiplayer application built through Hyperfy.io. Here, we host art exhibitions and community events, and we innovate new ways to connect crypto art with the burgeoning Metaverse.
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