In 2023, the Museum of Crypto Art (MOCA) held a fundraiser to which more than 700 artists and creators contributed works.
The individual pieces were later combined into a colorful mosaic, an echo, perhaps coincidental, of The Million Dollar Homepage, which began selling its 1,000,000 pixels of screen real estate on August 26th, 2005.
My contribution, later titled Vault of the Museum of Crypto Art, is a photograph taken in the Copenhagen Metro in June 2023 with a Nikon D3 from 2007 and a 55mm f/2.8 lens from around 1989.
I think the work triggered something nostalgic, which turned into ICE | July | 1982, inspired on the one hand by William Gibson’s cyberpunk literature from the early 1980s, where black ICE first surfaces in Burning Chrome, and on the other by thoughts of archives and archiving.
The Meta-Museum / The Net Art Extinction Time Line
Vault of the Museum of Crypto Art is documented in the Net Art Extinction Timeline, maintained by Marc Schütze at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, after the digital art platform Foundation closed down in April 2026.
