« The archive opens out of the future, which is only a philosopher’s way of saying what the platform’s coroner and the entomologist and Hamlet, backing out of the battlements with his frightened friends, all say in their own idiom. The work is not finished. The ghost will re-enter. We should go. Together.»
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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.
The Meta-Museum
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, in addition to the within the walls of the Museum of Crypto Art itself absorbed by the museum’s ‘cortex’ engine for information retrieval and storage – and accessible through natural language input.
