Colborn Bell is the face of the institution. As your avatar roams the virtual galleries, clicking on artworks calls up info, including a link to their listing on OpenSea, the NFT marketplace, and the price they were acquired for, in Ether (though M○C△’s works are not actually for sale).Īmid the tsunami of interest around NFTs and the metaverse, the Museum of Crypto Art-and its so-called Genesis Collection, 200 pieces by 200 artists who laid the foundations for the scene’s meteoric rise-has become a touchstone. Some of the art is also shown on the ceiling. Works are hung like paintings on its virtual walls, but without the constraints of real weather, they are displayed on both the outside and the inside of the museum. The dream architecture of M○C△’s building seems to float, and its galleries are bisected by an odd, impossibly torqued spiral stair. None of this happens in real space, though: To find it, you have to venture into the cartoon landscape of Somnium Space, an online world. According to him, cryptoart is making the crypto space, which is quite complex to understand, more tangible and visible.Enter the Museum of Crypto Art (M○C△) right now and you will find a show of about 50 artworks by many of the big names of the NFT space, drawn from its permanent collection: Frenetik Void’s Superyó, a surrealist image of a giant head Dmitri Cherniak’s Wreck a Man, his pastel abstraction evoking the art of in-demand mystical painter Loie Hollowell Trevor Jones’s Cubist Satoshi, an animation in which the facets of a Cubist painting reassemble themselves into the face of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and, of course-the pièce de résistance-CryptoPunk #6926, a blocky, 16-bit image of a smoking punk in a hoodie. With these funds, he looks to make MOCA a place for artists that look to help define NFT standards and institute policies.īell believes that the NFT space is an art movement that adds a visual language to the principles of the crypto market. Per Colborn Bell, the co-founder of MOCA, the museum has already highlighted seven solo artist shows through an incubator program. With the raised $1.5 million, MOCA is looking to create a runway for the museum to further foster and showcase cryptoart. Apart from this, the token facilitates the curation of museum assets by the community. As such, MOCA holders can vote on art pieces added to the museum’s Genesis Collection, which has 160 portraits, and future exhibits. The coin runs on Polygon and it serves as a governance and utility token. Launch of the MOCA token on May 26 this year. I'm looking forward to collaborating with MOCA in bringing the best crypto artists to the rest of the world.” “MOCA is an institution in cryptoart and I'm happy to invest and participate in its future direction. Sandeep Nailwal and Jaynti Kanani, the co-founders of blockchain scalability platform Polygon, also took part in this funding round.Įxplaining why he had invested in MOCA, Suji Yan said, Reportedly, the funding round was spearheaded by the founder of Yield Guild Games (YGG), Gabby Dizon, and Coingecko’s Ong Chong Eu.Īccording to the announcement, other investors behind the $1.5 million investment were Suji Yan, the founder of Mask.io, a platform that lets social media users encrypt their chats and posts, Daniel Maegaardaka, also known as Danny NFT, Andrew Steinwold, Eric Clark Su, the Metapurse fund, Bitscale Capital, and Mantra XR. The project announced this news on June 24, noting that the funding round was spearheaded by multiple leading founders in the NFT and DeFi space. The Museum of Crypto Art (MOCA), a Metaverse-native museum for digital art and innovative ideas, has secured a $1.5 million investment.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |