MOCA LIVE

MOCA LIVE: Creating the Strangest Possible Worlds, Keeping AI Weird, PsiPsiKoko, and Creating Narratives with Frenetik Void and Julian Brangold

Max and Colborn are joined by the two brilliant Argentine artists, Julian Brangold and Frenetik Void, for a chaotic discussion of all things AI, starring their strange, provocative, oddly-endearing AI-assisted collaborative project, PsiPsiKoko (which you have to see to believe). The conversation ranges from using AI as a tool vs. treating it as a collaborator, to the homogeneity of most AI artwork today, the way AI is changing how quickly artists can imagine new worlds, and more.
 
See PsiPsiKoko for yourself here: https://www.instagram.com/psipsikoko/?igshid=NGVhN2U2NjQ0Yg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

Current Events: Are We Actually Back?, Bitcoin at 40k, Another Lame Male-Dominated List, ROBNESS on Ebay, and Aliens

Max and Colborn start off discussing what Bitcoin breaking $40,000 (at long last) means for crypto and crypto art, if anything at all. They go on to discuss Observer's male-dominated list of blockchain art power brokers, ROBNESS taking his JPEG talents to Ebay, why crypto art won't make the traditional art world play by it's own rules, and aliens. 

MOCA LIVE: Crypto Art’s Artificial Rift, A Cloying Need for Mainstream Acceptance, The Importance of Exhibitions, and Chaos Theory with Clay Devlin

Joining Max on the show this week is Subjective.art curator and creative director, Clay Devlin. The two talk about Clay's now-extensive experience curating IRL exhibits that bring together physical, digital, and crypto artists and audiences, the roots of crypto art's crisis of individualism, how connected crypto art really is to mainstream artistry, curation stories, advice to would-be curators, and more. 

Current Events: A Refik vs. Jerry Bloodbath, Matt Kane and Operator’s Performative Brilliance, and Destroying Ourselves with Seriousness

This week, Max and Colborn talk about the seeming blood-feud between artist Refik Anadol and critic Jerry Saltz, how multi-layered performances by Matt Kane and Operator are stretching the crypto art paradigm ever-higher, why crypto art continues to take itself so seriously and how that's hurting us, and more!

The Foundational Texts of Crypto Art: Hugo Ball’s ”Dada Manifesto”

A wild and wacky podcast as Max and Colborn attempt to breakdown a wacky and wild document: Hugo Ball's 1918 "Dada Manifesto," which may or may not have elevated modernism to new heights in Europe. This is a text about nonsense, the absurd quite literally, giving things names and taking them away, the invention of an entirely new language. As crypto art everyday fights further to solidify its own existence, the "Dada Manifesto" feels more important than ever to analyze, dissect, and understand. Why don't we do so together? 

MOCA LIVE: Crypto’s Pumping, the Prodigal Sons are Returning, Everyone is Fighting, and Maybe Pak Started A War

Max and Colborn are here for the return of the cryptocurrency market, and here also for the supposed return of many uncommitted crypto art folks who may or may not have gone MIA during the bear market. Many people don't like that, they think of these people are opportunists. Others celebrate them as mental-health-prioritizing geniuses. We break down both sides, trace this conversation to its core, and litigate whether our feelings change depending on who exactly we're talking about. Also is this all Pak's fault? Enjoy. 

The Foundational Text’s a Crypto Art: F.T. Marinetti’s ”The Futurist Manifesto”

For this one, Colborn and Max go way back to 1909, because it was there that F.T. Marinetti announced an intention to embrace speed, technological advancement, violence, militarism, growth, and acceleration at all costs. Yes, The Futurist Manifesto —patron document of Futurism— is somewhat freaky, but throughout he course of our conversation, it's clear what Marinetti's vision aligns itself with crypto art's present moment in some pretty eerie ways.
Also we keep misremembering Marinetti's name, so that'll be fun to listen to. Shame on us!

MOCA LIVE: Is Crypto Art Killing Culture, The Plight of the Anonymous Artist, and Bridging the Digital/Physical Divide with Gossamer Rozen

Gossamer Rozen is our guest this week, and as such, this is a conversation about two things Gossamer has embraced throughout their career: culture and dualism. Culture: Gossamer's artistry almost universally speaks in the language of specific cultures, ones Gossamer can trace their own roots back to, or ones they admire. Dualism: Gossamer moves back and forth between digital and physical artistry with a rarely afforded fluidity. We talk at length about all these things, their pros and cons and intricacies, their places in crypto art at-large, and more. Enjoy. 

The Foundational Texts of Crypto Art: Artnome’s ”What is CryptoArt?”

Journey far back to 2018, and listen as Colborn and Max discuss what is perhaps crypto art's most important single text (and that which gave it its name): Artnome's 2018 article "What is CryptoArt?" In this podcast, Colborn and Max break down the 10 characteristics common to all crypto art, which Artnome theorized at the time, breaking down how they've changed, how they've stayed the same, and how important they'll be going forward.
Link: https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/1/14/what-is-cryptoart

MOCA LIVE: Does the World Still Need Photography (YES!), Mastering Many Mediums, The Plight of the Multimedialist, and The Old World Embracing New Technologies with Aaron Huey

I can sit here and list superlatives for the photographer-turned-Olympic-multimedialist Aaron Huey all day, so I'll say only this: This was a cant-miss opportunity to dive into the mind of a 30-time National Geographic photographer/Nonprofit founder/new technology explorer and discuss so many thing in such great detail. We talk Metaverse, AI, the blockchain, death of legacy media, and more from two perspectives: that of the old photography world, and that of someone with an internal mandate to innovate.