MOCA WEEKLY 3/10

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• Art Blocks New Chapter: Elevating Generative Art and Artist Empowerment (RedLion)

• Is AI art sacrilegious? (CreativeBloq)

• Refik Anadol on his immersive AI-generated art (Financial Times)

• Robert Alice Made NFT History, Now He’s Writing About It (Coindesk)

Metaverse

• Web3 Watch: Yuga Labs demos ‘Otherside’ metaverse, users left with mixed feelings (Blockworks)

• Metaverse experiences with major brands, artists and DJs drive The Sandbox’s resurgence (CoinTelegraph)

• Majority of social media posts about metaverse show positive sentiment (CoinTelegraph)

• Game Changers: 3 Predictions for Technological Transformation in 2024 & Beyond (Meta Quest Blog)

AI

• OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted ‘absolute control’ of the company (TheVerge)

• Stability AI Employees Banned From Midjourney (PirateWires)

• Dressed in saree, meet India’s first-ever AI teacher robot named ‘Iris’ (BusinessToday)

• Microsoft Paint may get Midjourney-like AI art generation feature (ReadWrite)

Finance

• ‘Playing politics to win’: Crypto spends big on Super Tuesday (Politico)

• Crypto exchange daily volume rises to nearly $100 billion for first time since 2021 (TheBlock)

• Bitcoin: How Super Tuesday gave political 'opportunity' to crypto users (YahooFinance)

• Daily DApp Users Surges To New High In February As DEX Activity Soars (TheDefiant)

Potpourri

• Binance made crypto perfume in a baffling attempt to woo women (TechCrunch)

• EFF, ACLU and 59 Other Organizations Demand Congress Protect Digital Privacy and Free Speech (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

• Vera Molnar, Mother of Computer Art, Pioneered the Future of Abstraction (Artsy)

• Do Kwon to Be Extradited to South Korea After March 23, Lawyer Says (CoinDesk)

• ‘Dragon Ball’ creator Akira Toriyama dies at 68 (NBCNews)

Tweet of the Week

Kevin McCoy, creator of the first-ever NFT, describes his concept for the project in an email from November 2013.

Art From M○C△’s Collection

h໐ຟ r໐๓คຖtiŞ (2021), by Planttdaddi. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection

Art in the Wild

Bad Bunny, Dead Bunny (2023), by CyberYuyu. In Collection of NonFunGerbils

Traditional Art Banger

Où es-tu ? Que fais-tu ? (1931), by Bernard Rancillac. Oil on canvas, 178 x 195 cm. In collection of Le Centre Pompidou

Quote of the Week

“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
― Audre Lorde

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