M○C△ WEEKLY 9/29

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• 🔥🚨ART DECC0s🚨🔥: Why the Hell Would MOCA Release a PFP Project? (A conceptual explainer courtesy of yours truly)

• The Web3 fashion brand combining generative AI, NFTs and on-demand manufacturing (VogueBusiness)

• Community-Curated Digital Art Show Comes to Queens (HyperAllergic)

• Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world (TheArtNewspaper)

Metaverse

• Meta Unveils New Smart Glasses and Headsets in Pursuit of the Metaverse (NewYorkTimes)

• Meta is giving its metaverse avatars a glow-up (TheVerge)

• How metaverse platforms could solve the loneliness epidemic (CoinTelegraph)

• The Computers Of The Future And Insights From The ‘Godmother Of The Metaverse’ (ForbesAfrica)

AI

• You Don’t Hate AI, You Hate Capitalism (ArtNews)

• OpenAI as we knew it is dead (Vox)

• AI Can (Mostly) Outperform Human CEOs (HarvardBusinessReview)

• AI helps uncover hundreds of unknown ancient symbols hidden in Peru’s Nazca Desert (CNN)

Finance

• Crypto mogul known as ‘The Godfather’ used L.A. deputies for extortion, feds allege (LosAngelesTimes)

• U.S. Sanctions Two Crypto Exchanges for Facilitating Cybercrime and Money Laundering (TheHackerNews)

• US Seizes Crypto Domains Tied to $800 Million in Illicit Transactions (Decrypt)

• Binance founder CZ could get out of prison today, BOP guidelines suggest (CryptoBriefing)

Potpourri

• Protestors who poured soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers sentenced to prison (TheArtNewspaper)

• Let’s All Laugh at How Cursed Google’s Generative-Art ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Is (ArtNet)

• No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity’s Problems (Wired)

Tweet of the Week

(criminally underseen) Tweet from Julian Brangold.

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Digital Carpet No.1 (2018), by Janne. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection

Art in the Wild

Cattle (2024), by Norman Harman. From collection LOWEKCHO. Currently for sale.

Traditional Art Banger

The Sleep of Endymion (1791), by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. Oil on canvas. 1.98 x W: 2.61 m. In collection of The Louvre Museum, Paris.

Quote of the Week

“Patience, too, is an exertion of energy.”

-Auguste Rodin

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