MOCA LIVE

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. 

Current Events and Company: A RarePepes Super Show!

Goodbye Current Events (for the moment), hello Current Events and Company! Colborn and Max are joined by a whole cavalcade of guests to discuss all things RarePepe, from the OG project's inception and influences, its expansion into every tiny little facet of crypto culture, its incredible memetic longevity, and the true value of the original RarePepes, the Nakamoto card that started it all.
Today's guests are:
Eleanora Brizi  (@eleonorabrizi)
Samuel Holt (@CryptoPunkart)
Louis (@MemeConscious)
Aaron McCann (@WburgPizza)

MOCA LIVE: Crypto Art's Past, Present, and Frustrating Future with Moxarra and Eleanora Brizi

On today's podcast, Colborn and Max are joined by the curator, Eleanor Brizi, and the OG crypto artist, Moxarra Gonzalez, to talk about crypto art's humble beginnings, it's most important early figures, Moxarra's position as crypto art's resident journalist, the tired and the trite and most exciting parts of crypto art's present, and much more. 

Current Events: The Bitcoin Spot ETF Super Show!

After the SEC announced this week that Bitcoin Spot ETFs can be traded on the U.S. stock exchange, Max and Colborn do a deep dive into what these ETFs are, why it took so long for their approval, and what this means for crypto and crypto art in both the short-term and long-term. Then the two revisit some of the best and worst Bitcoin ETF tweets in the new segment, MOCYa or MOCNah?  

MOCA LIVE: Preserving Every Single Thing, Warring Over Data, Keeping Receipts Forever, and Stories from the Early Internet with Danny O’Brien

On today's podcast, Filecoin Senior Fellow Danny O'Brien joins Max and Colborn to explore the good, the bad, the dangerous, and the experimental aspects of preserving absolutely, positively everything on the internet. Danny takes us through the cultural wonders of preserving an art movement, the fight Filecoin is fight, the good and bad of having every online post live forever, his days as an early internet freedom fighter, and much more on this truly eclectic episode. 

Current Events: Steamboat Willie Copyright, Ordinal Madness Continues, A $10000 Buzzsaw, and the Inaugural MOCYah/MOCNah

On the first Current Events of 2024, Max and Colborn hit all the stories they missed over the holidays, including crypto art's reaction to the Steamboat Willie copyright ending, the continued fervor around Ordinals, the U.S. Government's new law requiring KYC for all large crypto transactions, and Avalanche courting the PFP ecosystem. They end with the first MOCYah/MOCNah good and bad tweets of the week

MOCA LIVE: The First Annual New Years Resolutions Show!

On 2024's inaugural podcast, Max and Colborn are back with their professional, personal, and crypto-art-wide New Years resolutions! Join us for a wide-ranging and joyful ol' discussion about returning to the art, radical abundance, determining our own values, and much more! 

The MOCA LIVE 2023 Awards Show Extravaganza!

It's the First Annual MOCA LIVE Awards Show! We give out awards for all sorts of things —good, bad, ugly, completely FUBAR— that happened in 2023. It's a trip down memory lane, for better and for worse, with your uproarious hosts, Max and Colborn. Join us for laughs, tears, a frankly unsettling amount of curse words, and our thoughts on a pretty nutso year in crypto art.