MOCA LIVE

Colborn and Max discuss the recent incursion by Sotheby's Auction House into crypto art, and what its seeming success says about the space as a whole. Why are so many artists attracted to Sotheby's auctions? What niche is Sotheby's filling? What is mainstream acceptance doing to us!?!? All of that and more on this week's episode. 

Freshly returned from attending the NFTParis conference, Colborn talks with Max about his reinvigorating experience at this most recent crypto art convention, about IRL events in general, about the importance of sharing physical space, and about much more. 

Max and Colborn are joined by Gisel Florez, one of crypto art's most enduring photographers and collectors, to discuss curation, her collecting sensibilities, and the ethos behind her new project, MoonLanguage. 

For Valentine's Day Week (???) 2023, Colborn and Max talk about the things they love most about crypto art: The artists, the movements, the spirit of community, the Metaverse, and much more. Get ready to fall in love all over again. 

Max and Colborn are joined by performance artists OONA and Lori Baldwin to discuss Milking the Artist (their controversial Art Basel performance), Twitter algorithms, why Dalí gets way more credit than he deserves, the history of feminist performance art, and much more. 

What's really up with all these Open Editions hitting the crypto art market? Colborn and Max break down what Open Editions mean for crypto art, the conditions that have led to their proliferation, and others ways artists are keeping the lights on during an extended crypto winter.

In episode 2, Colborn and Max discuss the effects of social media (i.e. Twitter), influencer culture, and content expectation on crypto art. Content vs. Art? Influencers vs. Collectors? How to navigate such strangeness? We posit some ideas. 

In the inaugural MOCA LIVE, hosts Colborn Bell and Max Cohen flit around the crypto art universe, discussing the state of the market today, originality vs. mimicry, interesting stuff happening on Solana (it's true, I swear!), and some of what's changed since crypto art's humble beginnings.