MOCA LIVE: Will AI Save the Metaverse, un_MUSEUMs, and New Visions for Architecture with Untitled,xyz
In the dark, away from attention, the metaverse grows, thrives even, with the introduction and assistance of AI. AI agents peopling metaverse worlds. AI-generated avatars. But one of the most interesting possibilities of an AI-integrated metaverse is AI architecture, not just for the speed with which virtual 3D structures can be created but the newfound intricacy. It's an entirely new avenue for artistry, both in 3D worlds, and also full-stop, a new frontier.
Today, Colborn and Max talk with MOCA’s resident Metaverse architect, Untitled,XYZ about UnMuseums, a collection of AI-generated architectures and his final flourish for MOCA ROOMs. The nitty-gritty of process, conception, outcome, and consequence, expect all of that and more on today’s episode of MOCA LIVE.
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MOCA LIVE: How MOCA 2.0 Changes Everything, The Ultimate Art DeCC0s Roadmap, and the MOCA Endgame with Reneil1337
MOCA is evolving, and we want you along for the ride. 2025 is a year of great change for your favorite crypto art museum, and in this episode, Max and MOCA's co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Reneil1337, dive deep on all the exciting changes. A 10,000-piece PFP turned Agentic AI deployment interface? Supporting ai16z and Hyperfy in all kinds of creative ways? A new vision for $MOCA token? We reveal all that and more. Come find out what's got us all so jazzed up.
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MOCA LIVE: A PolyMarket Exit Poll, Our Bet-on-Everything Future, Social Media Persuasion, and Crypto's Near Future
The U.S. Presidential election ends, and all sorts of new questions arise. Ours? Just how influential is PolyMarket, the crypto-based app that brought election betting to the general public? Max and Colborn talk PolyMarket's origins, its seed investments, its political inclinations, and most importantly, its effect (if any) on the elections it revolves around. What does PolyMarket's rise tell us about the electorate? Can betting on election be ethical? This, social media's forcible politicization, the future for crypto in a second Trump term, and much more.
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MOCA LIVE: A Shaky Foundation, Platform Desperation, Saying Goodbye to Middlemen, and Choosing a "Local" Crypto Art
Today, Max and Colborn look into the vociferous response to former minting platform, Foundation, realigning itself as a social-media-based business (and one that looks a whole lot like the site our own Colborn helped to build), and try to tease out its meaning. Is a slow rug inevitable? Are all remaining platforms doomed to grasp at any nearby straw? What does a business need to survive in crypto art, and more importantly, how do the rest of us build-up the kind of crypto art we want to see? Can we reestablish a middle class through force-of-will alone?
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MOCA LIVE: A Borderline Pathological Level of Ambition, Conceptual Artistry, and Reaching Audiences with Kevin Esherick
Today, a conversation all about conceptual art with the conceptual artist, essayist, and AI dilettante/explorer, Kevin Esherick. Having tackled dense conceptual topics in AI, generative aesthetics, things relating to life and the self and the spirit alike, Kevin is the perfect person to discuss making conceptual art communicable online, the way inspiration affixes itself to a certain medium, ambition, effort, AI, and his latest project, I'm With You, releasing soon.
Find Kevin here: https://x.com/kev_esh
And learn more about I'm With You here:
https://x.com/kev_esh/status/1838950210669580396
https://verse.works/series/im-with-you-by-kevin-esherick
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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