ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ By Julian Brangold Buenos Aires, 5pm, heading to the pre-opening of a big art fair. I angst ever so slightly. It’s been a while. Meet friends, hop in the car. Drive. Our names are supposed to be on a list… The girl pretends they’re there anyway. Go ahead. Let’s…

It’s Up to Us to Make Sure it isn’t a Nightmare by Maxwell Cohen 1. A Brief History of How Things Are By the time you read this, everything will have changed. From yesterday, from last week, certainly from the month before. …

By Max Cohen (@cohenthewriter) Not counting his physical face. Which is kind. And blue-eyed. And hugged tight by a well-shaven beard. His hair is neat. His teeth are Invisaline straight. His gaze is straight forward, and his greetings elongated: “Heyyyyyyyyy Max,” he says to me, his pitch falling an octave…

Rene Schmidt is M○C△’s Most Important Asset, and May One Day Threaten Humanity Itself — Of course I don’t think Rene Schmidt is a supervillain, that’d be preposterous. It’s just that, well, if in 20-years or so, a global hack of all the most vital financial and militaristic computer systems sent humanity sputtering back to the Dark Ages, and if a team of highly-trained operatives…

GiselxFlorez Won the Genesis M○C△ROOM; She Tells Us Why — 100 years from now, when the Crypto Art movement is being cataloged and recollected, Gisel Florez’ figure will undoubtedly appear enormous within it. …

Gargantuan artworks and neon shapes flicker far away like distant bug-zappers, attracting meta-wanderers who teleport in atop moonlit fields — Imagine standing at the inception of a new architectural era. Imagine spatial experiences built without the constraints of materiality, gravity, or weather. Architecture freed from itself, from all its former fetter. This is the promise inherent in the Metaverse’s proliferation: A complete reconceptualization of what architecture is, what it can…

or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bored Apes — Prologue: An Admission of Guilt This is not the piece I wanted to write. This is not the piece I wanted you to see. I wanted to write about how the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), and the many Profile Picture projects (PFP’s) it spawned, were the collective Trojan Horse that would wheedle Contemporary Art…

After a year of building and expanding, our team is moving forward with a grand vision for the future. — Community Ladder, Phase 2 The Community Ladder gets over $400,000 in $MOCA into the hands of the most active NFT communities and their members. Phase 1 entailed the distribution of 33,333 $MOCA among the top-10 most activated projects in M○C△’s Community Collection. On December 31st 2021, Phase 1 officially concluded — thank you to…

ROOMs are an important early puzzle piece of the metaverse that will bring a growing audience the grand aesthetic possibilities of architecture, and new social experiences around Crypto Art. — M○C△’s vision is to bring metaverse architects, designers, artists, and enthusiasts together to create worlds, museum wings, and exhibits of revolutionary style and scope. We want to challenge the very idea of “Architecture” just as we’ve challenged the concept of a “Museum.”