DEAR MOCA: Or, Actually, Something a Little Different
In probably too many words
Please enjoy today’s DEAR MOCA column. Have questions you’d like answered? Have a thought you want us to respond to? Email us at hello@museumofcryptoart.com or submit your questions to our dedicated Google Form.
Dear M○C△,
Well, actually, there’s no question this week, at least not from you beautiful people. In fact, I have a question for you, so let’s try this again—
Dear You (Yes, you!),
I’ve been putting together this column for about three months. Personally, as the writer of these columns (and this should come as no surprise), I really love them. I’ve never before had a chance to write about crypto art’s very specific or incendiary cultural shifts and moments. I’ve previously tended towards a long-view of things, looking back on epochs or making larger-scale prognostications about the future. So this column is a new way of looking at things, engaging in a hair-trigger way with the hair-trigger sensibility of crypto art. To me, that feels truer to the movement’s spirit, and it let’s less things pass unobserved or unanalyzed.
But is it working?
What I mean is that, for this week’s Dear M○C△, I want to know from you whether this weekly newsletter is working in its current form. The questions I generally get asked, and those I tend to respond to, are about today, right now, and what’s on our collective mind. Do you think this is the right way to go about these newsletters, or should I focus more on something else?
Like artworks and artists specifically?
Like broader or longer-gestating cultural trends?
Like events or bombshells from outside crypto art specifically?
So that’s my first question: Content.
My second question is about form. Does this Call-and-Answer style of newsletter work for you? Do you think there’s a better way to go about reacting to what’s happening in crypto art? I really want everyone who reads this newsletter to be involved as much as possible in its evolution, because if I’m not doing this for ya’ll, then why do it?
The holidays were slow for everyone, and I’m currently out of reader-submitted questions, so if you have ideas on ways the newsletter can improve, different angles you’d like me to take, or any other ideas, I’d really love to see them! You can submit information, questions, comments, or denigrations to our email —hello@museumofcryptoart.com— or directly on our dedicated Google Form. Feel free to leave a comment on this post as well, if that’s easier.
Otherwise, I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing: Answering your questions, getting to the heart of the matter, being perhaps a touch too opinionated.
Looking forward to doing this for you and with you throughout 2024. Our’s is an exciting place to be in, at an exciting time to be in it, and I’m excited to be here for it.
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Digital Art Museum,
M○C△