MOCA LIVE

MOCA LIVE: A Metaverse State of the Union, WIPMeetup Memories, and Evolving Online Communities with Rizzle and Niftytime

Today's episode is all about the Metaverse, and who better to speak about it with than the hosts of the longest-running web3 Metaverse meetup (and crypto art OGs), Rizzle and Niftytime. From their early history with TheWIPMeetup, to building a Metaverse audience, to a long debriefing on where the Metaverse is today, Rizzle and Niftytime evoke five years spent building this still-unfinished, still-revolutionary way of being online. 
Click to find:
Rizzle
Niftytime
TheWIPMeetup

MOCYah or MOCNah: A Billion Dollars is a Sickness, Choosing Rich, More Degeneracy, the Kevin Rose Coffin

Today's MOCYah or MOCNah tackles all the degeneracy in crypto and crypto art of late. That means Crypto Nick and choosing rich! It means Darkfarms1's logic-defying $BOME token! It means Kevin Rose being hopefully, mercifully gone from our lives for good! And it means a whole lot more discussion of Solana vs. Eth, cycles of degeneracy, and much more more! 

MOCA LIVE: Crypto Art Going Wrong (and Right) in Reality, Lessons from a Performance, and Prioritizing Participation with OONA

On her record-breaking 3rd MOCA LIVE appearance, performance art extraordinaire OONA joins Max and Colborn to talk live performances, live events, how they go so right and so wrong, maximizing participation/discourse/creativity we meet face-to-face IRL, and so much more. Prepare for laughs, nihilism, and maybe even a few good ideas. 

MOCA LIVE: Redefining Crypto Art Curation, and All About TASCHEN with Robert Alice

Max and Colborn take a long look at crypto art curation with the curator and writer of TASCHEN's On NFTs, Robert Alice. With Mr. Alice's art historical, curatorial, and cultural expertise on full display, the three discuss the nitty-gritty creation of a giant crypto art book, decentralizing curation, whether or not crypto art is dead, and stories from ON NFTs inception. 

MOCYah or MOCNah: SHLOMS' Sunset, NFTParis, TASCHEN and Morrow Curations, and Art Prices in ETH or USD

Max and Colborn are back, and this time, they're playing for keeps. Listen and marvel as your two hosts affix the label of MOCYah or MOCNah to all the latest current events, from SHLOMS' latest performance art, the vibes at NFTParis, the curatorial decisions made by TASCHEN and Morrow Collective, and the return of a fan favorite argument "ETH or USD." 

MOCA LIVE: The Web3 Censorship Crisis with Natrix

Today, Max is joined by the multifaceted artist, foundational crypto art writer, and censorship whistleblower, Natrix, to take on the dirtiest topic in "web3": How censorship —by platforms, by Twitter, and by the culture itself— infects everything that happens here. It's a conversation that ranges from Natrix's own experiences being censored, why censorship comes for sex workers first, and the only way we can collectively push back against censoring, centralized forces. 
Natrix's Work Mentioned:
"It's Not Web3 Without Sex Worker Sovreignty" 
Sisteen Chapel of Smut
Cryptosexuality 2.0
Fembots
OnlyMemes
"Black and white and red all over"
 

MOCA LIVE: An Entirely New AI Art-Form, Technocrats vs. the Treehuggers, and Artists Becoming Worldbuilders, with Aleqth

This week's MOCA LIVE is a revelation about all things AI. Max and his guest, the artist and Makingit24/7 member Aleqth, explore a unique perspective on the philosophy, subtleties, and possibilities of AI artistry. From marketplaces for custom-designed datasets and the unstoppable proliferation of symbols, to the evolution of artists into worldbuilders, and the coming politicization between AI technocrats and technology naysayers, this is a madcap, jam-packed episode. It's an early 2024 highlight. 

MOCYah or MOCNah: The VisionPro Crystal Ball, The Auction Houses Advancing, Botto's Big Sale, and Ownership in the AI Age

Max and Colborn finally return and to a newly-formatted weekly podcast: MOCYah or MOCNah! Taking on stories, topics, sales, and tidbits from around crypto art, and separating them into one of two overly simplistic bins: Good or bad, and why. Getting the Yah/Nah treatment today: Apple's newly-released VisionPro, auction house sales of poetry and NFT rocks, a big sale for early Botto AI work, and the Yuga/Proof acquisition. 

MOCA LIVE: Taming the AI Beast, Magnified AI Education, Open-Source Models, Martians, and More with Gene Kogan and Vanessa Rosa

Max welcomes the artists/researchers/educators Gene Kogan and Vanessa Rosa to the podcast for another AI-centric episode. This time the conversation gets in the weeds about using AI to create connections between mediums, the layperson's changing understanding of AI, the necessity of AI education, where we can find the artist's heart in an AI artwork, chatbots, practical advice for creatives, and much more. 
 
Find Gene Kogan at: https://genekogan.com/
His projects:
Eden: https://eden.art/
Abraham: https://abraham.ai/
https://medium.com/@genekogan/artist-in-the-cloud-8384824a75c7
Why Is a Raven Like a Writing Desk: https://vimeo.com/139123754
Find Vanessa Rosa at: https://va2rosa.com/
Her project 
Little Martians: https://www.littlemartians.world/

MOCA LIVE: Turning the World Into Meat, Celebrating Art Through Parody, the Twitter Abyss, and Crypto Art's Seriousness Problem with Diewiththemostlikes

On an episode covered in flies beside a highway off-ramp sex shop, Max and Colborn talk to provocateur and ground-beef purveyor, Diewiththemostlikes, about remixing eons of art in his own image, the power of parody, the social media abyss, the importance of keeping comedy in crypto art, and how looking deeply into the void is actually a kind of superpower.