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…
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…
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.”
Within the next few months, we’ll take a…
Activating NFTs on app.museumofcryptoart.com will reward communities! From now until December of 2022, we’ll be distributing 100,000 $MOCA tokens (roughly 1% of the total supply) to project treasuries, providing instant utility and rewards for their members. …
The museum experience has traditionally been distant: a governing body or institution curates a collection of artworks based on its own, sometimes archaic, internal metrics (for instance, the prestigious French Salon once considered the Impressionists — Monet, Manet, Degas, Cezanne, etc. — puerile and unskilled), displays its works in some…
Don’t try finding consistency in Fabiello’s Floyd’s Facets, the Milanese artist’s first and only piece housed in MOCA’s permanent collection. Floyd is art in constant flux, ceaselessly shifting between placements and colors. Throughout the animated piece’s five-second loop, Floyd’s face fractions itself into fractals, as pieces of himself break from…
Intro: Art as Labor, Art’s Inherent Value, Art’s Financial Value, Art as Art
Art is a product of creative labor, it is social currency, it is based on cultural relevance, it is inherently relative, and as such, its value is a complex, multi-layered, and open-ended proposition. …
M○C△ has launched V1 of its Self-Expression Oracle and the Member’s Pass. These systems allow collectors to curate their NFTs as they see fit and easily share them with whoever they’d like via social media.
Discord integration with Collab.land is currently in the process of being implemented. …
As M○C△ grows and further establishes itself as a centralized destination for those interested in digital art, it will evolve to meet the needs of artists, collectors, and members. …
As the flow of history reshaped the world, this was reflected in the status and nature of museums. Museums are “a way to organize time and space…as times and spaces change, so do museum spaces.” (Steyerl, Duty Free Art) The challenges faced by museums, historically, are not necessarily relevant to…
