Work
Somewhat of an Archive.
Mostly stuff written at the Museum of Crypto Art, some other goodies sprinkled in. The work is organized by raison d’être rather than chronology — essays and criticism, reporting, fiction, and my platform/product writing.
Essays
Long-form
The Church of Wembanyama
Did Michael Jordan doom American religion? An argument, via graphs and vibes, that modern sports fandom has replaced so much of what religion once exclusively offered.
The Rabbis We’re Being Trained to Forget
A long-form, meticulously researched analysis of AI bias and data corruption in Torah Scholarship.
The Endless Ceasefire
Long-form exploration of political suppression in the art, value collapse, and the limits of a community built on belief.
A Brief History of Virtual Values
Heavily reported feature on the lengthy, surprising lineage of virtual world-building, from the first co-op videogames, to Philip Rosedale’s Second Life to the Metaverse as we knew it.
Where Have All the Good Collectors Gone, or There Never Was a Lambo
Dozens of interviews inform this takedown of crypto art’s capital-c Collector mythos.
The Collectors Who’ll Kill Crypto Art
A polemic on the difference between art Collectors and Buyers, the history of modern art dealership, and how to keep thieves out of a kingdom’s coffers.
Matt Kane Is Eternal
On artwork meant to outlive its artist, its audience, the species itself.
un_MUSEUMs
On what an internet-based institution is, what it could be, and how MOCA attempted to get there.
Criticism
Close readings
An Exhaustive Reenactment of Matt Kane’s Moral Performance
Authoritative reporting of the greatest performance artwork in crypto art history, Matt Kane’s “Moral Performance.”
Do Anne Spalter’s AIs Have Eyes?
On what AI art sees when an artist asks it to look, and what it cannot.
Claire Silver Remembers Everything
A close reading of an artist whose practice is, fundamentally, a memory device.
From Our Collection: XCOPY’s Cracked
On XCOPY’s “Cracked” and what it captures about the precise moment crypto art knew itself.
Fiction
A novel, mostly
Bananas! The Novel
My 2020 novel. Is it very good? Eh, it has moments. Is it very important? To me, more than anything else.
Product & Platform
Brand storytelling
In 2025, M○C△ Changes (Almost) Everything (Again)
Platform relaunch announcement. Less press release than exploration of why institutions rebuild themselves.
The Vibe Studio Arrives At Last
Launch feature for a revitalized brand ecosystem — a product story laden with history, culture, and technical innovation.
MOCA Proudly Introduces: The Library
Launch announcement for MOCA’s AI-powered curatorial archive, as heavy on the theory as the tech specs.
The 100-Million-Word Birth of Art DeCC0 Agents
A developmental feature on the theory, bottom-up creation, and important creation of agentic AI personalities.
Preserving Art and Culture: The Imperative of Decentralized Storage
Collaboration with Filecoin Foundation on the necessity for decentralized storage in cultural preservation.
Blogs & Newsletters
Independent
Dispatches from the Roof
Daily blog written during the first months of the Covid pandemic.
Jewless
A culturally-Jewish Jew’s Jewish awakening.
The Museum of Crypto Art
Many formats, a hundred topics, all about art and tech and the places culture bursts out from within them.
Full archives
Newsletter & blogYou can find much (much) more of my writing in MOCA’s Substacks, while a longer archive, with everything categorized and searchable, lives on Medium.