M○C△ WEEKLY 10/27

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• Bridging Worlds | Digital Art Beyond Borders (RightClickSave)

• Exclusive: XCOPY Unpacks His “Cope Salada” Collection on Shape (NFTNow)

• Feral File Wants to Trigger a ‘Cultural Shift’ by Beaming Digital Art Into People’s Homes Every Day Through Phones and Smart TVs (ArtNews)

Metaverse

• FINRA says rules still apply in the metaverse (CoinTelegraph)

• Epic wants people to make more games. It’s creating–and owning–the marketplace. (TubeFilter)

• Apple is reportedly ending Vision Pro production – is VR and AR's time in the home cinema spotlight already over? (WhatHiFi)

• Survey says half of developers consider VR market on decline or in stagnation (GameDeveloper)

AI

• Dana-Fiona Armour wins Sigg Art Prize for work that integrates artificial intelligence (TheArtNewspaper)

• OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December (TheVerge)

• An AI chatbot pushed a teen to kill himself, a lawsuit against its creator alleges (AP)

• New Biden policy takes a big swing at AI — and sets political traps (Politico)

Finance

• Majority of Americans aren’t confident in the safety and reliability of cryptocurrency (PewResearch)

• Senegal’s Cryptocurrency City Has Evaporated (ForeignPolicy)

• Unsubstantiated Tether investigation report shakes crypto market (CoinTelegraph)

• U.S. will be ‘more pro-crypto’ after this election, no matter who wins, says Ripple CEO Garlinghouse (CNBC)

Potpourri

• MetaBirkins NFT creator, Hermes square off in US trademark appeal (Reuters)

• Maurizio Cattelan’s Infamous Banana Will Be Sold at Sotheby’s. The Estimate: $1 Million (ArtNet)

• For the First Time Ever, a Humanoid Robot Is Selling Art at Sotheby’s (ArtNet)

• Gen X are the biggest spenders on art as ‘speculative’ millennials drop back, latest UBS/Art Basel survey finds (TheArtNewspaper)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from HiddenForces

Art From M○C△’s Collection

SparkleBoss™ [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅2020)̲̅$̲̅] (2019), by WizardX. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

Stone (2024) by VioletBond. Open to offers, soon to be burned???.

Traditional Art Banger

El Perro (The Dog) (1819-1823), by Francisco Goya. Held by Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Quote of the Week

“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”

-Edgar Degas

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