MOCA LIVE

Max is joined by MLow, one of the most irrepressibly positive figures in recent crypto art, to talk about the art of interviewing, stories good and bad from the dozens of interviews MLow has done with crypto artists big and small, why critical thought is so vital, and the responsibility on the shoulders of every interviewer/writer/critic doing this kind of work. 

The one and only Matt Kane joins Current Events to talk about ALL his own contributions to crypto art current events this week. That means diving deep on his performance art project "Contractual Obligations" and the way he's challenging our expectations of what a "Matt Kane artwork" even is. Plus, interest mounts for early AI art, MOMA Postcards are confusing, and why Matt has such a powerful connection to Halloween candy. 

Max is joined by poet, artist, and founder of Sovrn.art, Ezra Shibboleth, for a conversation on the cutting-edge of everything. Tokens, and their many forms. Artistic expectations, and how Matt Kane has spent this past week subverting them (with fiery results). Building a successful platform in a bear market, and what that requires of its founders. The very apocalypse itself, and how humans might react. 

On today's Current Events, we talk about Pudgy Penguins pivoting into plushie sales, the value crypto art, the mechanisms by which culture is programmed from the top-down, the problem with Beeple throwing Cryptopunks party, and how Fewocious could drop a 20,000 piece PFP project in the dark heart of a bear market. And, of course, the Boston Celtics.

An abstract conversation about abstract art, how fitting when your guest is the profound OG talent WGMeets. WG is an abstract artist with a whole range of visual styles, and our conversation with WG covers the whole range of abstract topics: Making abstract art, marketing abstract art, the abstract artist's unique fingerprint, finding and staying true to an abstract vision. Rule of thumb: If you have a chance to hear WGMeets riff on what he does best, take it. 

Welcome to the first episode of Current Events with Max and Colborn, where your hosts dive into everything that happened in the world of crypto art, NFTs, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, AI, etc. each week. Up first: Rolling Stone's hit-piece on NFTs, a weeklong celebration of NFTs and blockchain in South Korea, and MoMA's newest crypto art collaboration including a list of participants we can't help but admire. Catch new episodes of Current Events every Tuesday. 

Our first-ever guest, the anonymous performance artist OONA, returns to the podcast to talk about the incredible eruption of blockchain performance art over the course of 2023. OONA's unique insights from years spent creating blockchain-based performance art encompass perspective, provocativeness, creative sales mechanics, and much much more. Visit @museumofcrypto or @madebyoona on Twitter to learn more about "AND" the collaborative performance art exhibition mentioned often in this podcast!

Max is joined by the last and loudest person to flame his writing, the artist Hidden Forces, for a discussion about everything Max has gotten wrong (and other things he's gotten right) in his recent essays about collectorship. Their conversation starts with 20th century art history, hops onto the burden-laden shoulders of crypto art collectors, and ends with a redefining reassessment of crypto art's cultural value. 

This episode is all about MOCA: Who we are, what we're about, and what this unique institution means to Max, to Colborn who founded it, to the entire crypto art ecosystem. It is very personal, and so is our call for your support, which you'll hear all over this episode. Please visit us on Twitter to learn how you can help us survive and thrive into the future.

An all-time MOCA LIVE conversation between Max, Colborn, and Polyannie, the one-of-a-kind crypto art OG, erotic art extraordinaire, porn performer, and mega insightful human. To talk about sex work in crypto art, you have to talk with a sex worker in crypto art. Polyannie brings insight, fire, and in-depth knowhow to a conversation about sex, porn, and sex work that's too often lacking in the space.

Also, please follow this link to learn more about the MOCA Fundraiser: https://app.manifold.xyz/c/moca-fundraiser-2023, or reach out to one of us from the team on Twitter!