1/ This is MOCA's before-and-after moment. What did we say earlier this year?
MOCA 2.0 meant:
-leaning into agentic AI
-vastly expanding our toolkit
-making crypto art accessible in its entirety.
Today we launch The Vibe Studio. It is all all of the above and more.
Letโs talk Vibe Studio, whatโs inside, and how it elevates MOCA and Art DeCC0s to new heights.
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There is a single object that contains the entire founding canon of digital art.
Hackatao's *Crazy Diamond $1M* (July 2020). Every top SuperRare artist of the first $1M era hand-drawn into its faces. Not a list. A literal monument.
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Certain creative processes require slowing down.
So much can be done fast these days.
But digestion of the world through your own body, with your own instincts, remains biological.
Owning your own thoughts requires time.
The feed is in overdrive.
We all know why.
Everybody knows
The inspiration behind this piece came from a tweet I saw some time ago from @basileus_eth . I connected deeply with the idea and immediately started imagining how I could reinterpret it through my own using African aesthetics and myself as the subject, since self-portraiture has always been a strong part of my practice.
To bring the work to life, I had to physically place myself into different imagined moments. I photographed myself in multiple positions imagining myself riding a horse, falling to the ground, rolling, reacting to impact almost as though the horse was charging toward me. Every angle and pose was intentional, created to give the final image a movement and emotion.
@TOBYDPHOTOGRAPH That was a collaboration between myself and @Moxarra for some contest hosted by @MuseumofCrypto โ Mox did the art and I provided the inspiration, leadership, and life modeling โ we stand by that work โบ๏ธ
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Don't miss out on this week's WIPMeetup. 3pm EST.
Alright, brosef, @reneil1337's on today with something about AI stuff + we might force @juxton to talk about something too because that's what friends are for.
So zip it and git yer butt in here!
3 PM ET | 12 PM PT | 8 PM UTC
Get in discord ๐ https://t.co/ITAoqRu7TY
Alright, brosef, @reneil1337's on today with something about AI stuff + we might force @juxton to talk about something too because that's what friends are for.
So zip it and git yer butt in here!
3 PM ET | 12 PM PT | 8 PM UTC
Get in discord ๐ https://t.co/ITAoqRu7TY
In conversation with Kevin McCoy for SLEEK
What happened to NFTs?โจโจAM When we first met a few years ago, I told you that you had changed my life, and I was not happy about it. (laughs) Because suddenly, being a curator in digital art became tied to the expectation of selling work. Curation was no longer primarily about creating context, but increasingly about selecting artists who performed well in the market.
KMC We saw those dynamics play out: curation becoming tied to sales and digital art becoming increasingly centred around ownership and wallets. To go back to Vuk ฤosiฤโs conversation with you, one of the key figures of the 1990s https://t.co/PfN23Jeog9 movement, he said: we had the browser, NFTs got the wallet. He meant it critically, in the sense that the artwork became reduced to the wallet. And that is true.
As an artist, especially in that early Ethereum moment, producing work that ultimately ended up in a wallet did not feel great. It did not feel like making work had felt before. When you make work for a gallery exhibition, people experience it together. There is a social dimension and a physical presence to it. Doing a drop on a platform and having the work end up in peopleโs wallets was not the same experience.
@senseofbodies@ALCrego_ crunch time at @MuseumofCrypto we are pushing our cortex product over the finish line while also refining soulweaver to ensure web3 native utilization ๐ณ๏ธ๐ https://t.co/2ctKtvAAur