MOCA LIVE
Come take a (sometimes boisterous, other times blasphemous) tour around the crypto art world with the Museum of Crypto Art’s founder, Colborn Bell, and lead writer, Max Cohen.
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Episodes
Thursday May 04, 2023
Thursday May 04, 2023
Max, and special guest Anubis3100, go deep into the why's and what-now's of crypto art's latest foray into memecoin speculation. We talk our person memecoin histories, how this hyper-investment might affect crypto art downstream, and why the memetics never seem to stop.
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Colborn and Max are joined by MOCA's resident metaverse architect, untitled,xyz, to talk blockchains: Tezos, Solana, Polygon, Steemit, Ethereum, and how crypto art has adapted to each ecosystem. This pod's got stories, it's got insights, it's a whole lot of fun.
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Max and Colborn are back talking about post-NFTNYC feelings and insights and events. A bunch of folks gathered at MOCA's Church (we have a church) for a weekend getaway, our hosts rediscovered the meaning of friendship, and an Async.Art love-fest quickly devolves into $Pepe/Franklin/Celtics-fueled chaos.
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Max and Colborn talk about NFTNYC 2023 week *during* NFTNYC 2023 week. They discuss some trends —good and bad— regarding display (Times Square billboards, anyone?), curation, and togetherness (aww).
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Colborn and Max are joined by artist/curator/superhuman/MOCA-programming-director Julian Brangold to discuss MOCA's latest exhibition, crypto art in Argentina, the effects of decentralization on crypto art's aesthetics, and the role collectors play in encouraging local, personal artistry. A good conversation by smart cookies.
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Friday Mar 24, 2023
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.
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
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.
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
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.
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
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.
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
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.