MOCA LIVE

MOCA LIVE: Magic, Culture, and Andrés Zighelboim

Our guest this week is Andrés Zighelboim, the renowned surrealist painter, and our conversation defies any attempt to capture it in a single sentence. Listen for a discussion on macro and micro cultures, on mysticism and magic, on tales from the early days of crypto art, and much much more. 

MOCA LIVE: Emi Kusano, the 80’s, & the Machine

This week, Max and Shivani talk with Japanese photographer, musician, and crypto artist Emi Kusano about her wild 80's-centric aesthetic, her radical approach to AI artistry, her fashion sense, and what it's like to be a crypto art in Japan. We have a lot of fun in this podcast, and hopefully you have a lot of fun listening to it. 

MOCA LIVE: The Death of PFPs

That's it, folks, it's a wrap: PFPs are dead in the water, and today, Max and Colborn talk about why. Why PFP projects are flawed at their core, how they have no choice but to alienate their holders, and other musings from the autopsy of the world's most notorious NFT asset class. Some shots get fired in this one. Did YOUR favorite project catch a bullet? Listen and find out!

MOCA LIVE: How YOU Can Survive a Crypto Art Crisis

It's our 20th episode! Max and Colborn are together in the same place, talking shop about the spiritual and mental challenges of living through one insane crypto cycle after another. But, I swear, this is a celebratory podcast. Please enjoy. 

MOCA LIVE: Is AI Biased Against Literally Everyone? with Linda Dounia

Max is joined by MOCA's director/curator, Shivani Mitra, and the artist/curator/designer, Linda Dounia, to talk about how bias in AI is everywhere, how it touches everything, and how degrading it will be to so many arena —artistic, political, cultural—if left unanalyzed and unchallenged. Let this podcast be an analysis and challenge both. 

MOCA LIVE: The Brightest and Bleakest Crypto Art Futures (,or VisionPro’s and Cons)

Inspired by the announcement of Apple's new VisionPro AR/VR headset, Colborn and Max discuss crypto art's future in a world where we more-or-less have computers taped to our heads 24/7. The potential goods of that world, sure, but also the many, many, *many* potential bads. We might be listening back to this one in a few years saying "We told you so." 

MOCA LIVE: Generative Art is Having a(nother) Moment with Operator

It's been a big few weeks for generative art, and to talk about the what's, why's, how's, and should's of it all, Colborn and Max are talking with Dejha Ti and Ania Catherine, who together make-up the experiential art duo Operator. We discuss Operator's recent work (Human Unreadable), how algorithmic artistry can continue expanding across mediums, and why exactly generative looms as large as it does in the crypto art canon. Come for Operator's genius, stay for...well... you're probably staying for Operator's genius too.

MOCA LIVE: Is Crypto Art a Joke?

A loaded title for a loaded podcast. This one start Max and Colborn with a simple question —Is Crypto Art a Joke?— and spins out into a much wider conversation about internet culture at large. Get ready to bounce around from traditional art to mimetics, from sincerity in television and videogames to Susan Sontag. Enjoy. 

MOCA LIVE: Oh Boy, We’re Talking About Ethics

Max and Colborn are back together and talking about the moral responsibilities artists face when achieving monumental success in crypto art. Should high-selling crypto artists have an ethical mandate to help keep this space alive? Why is it worth keeping alive in the first place? Ultimately, who is in charge of preserving crypto art going forward, and where, and in what form? Big topics, lengthy pontifications, and, yes, some Celtics/Lakers talk at the end. 

MOCA LIVE: The First Inevitable AI Conversation (and a bit about Miladys)

Max is joined by MOCA Director Shivani Mitra, and by crypto artist Earthsample, to dig under the nails of AI: AI culturally, AI as it relates to crypto art, AI as a paradigm shift that might, yes, push society forward into something security-seeking, but might instead encourage it away from technology altogether. Near the end of this pod, the conversation turns to Milady NFTs and, naturally, devolves into chaos. This is a fun one.