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MOCA: Museum of Computer Art

MOCA: Museum of Computer Art is a nonprofit US educational corporation chartered by the NYS Department of Education that operates the Museum of Computer Art at http://moca.virtual.museum. It is a member of the University of the State of New York and enjoys IRS 501 (c) (3) tax exempt status. It was awarded .museum top-level domain (TLD) status by the Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma) in 2002. It can also be accessed as museumofcomputerart.com and museumofcomputerart.org.

Founded in 1993, its categories of hosted art include 3-D renderings, fractals, mathematical and algorithmic art, enhanced photography, animation, mixed media, digital video and computer-painted and -drawn art. It hosts hundreds of digital artists and thousands of their images. It is free to artists and viewers. It provides a contemporaneous and historical record as to what it views as the best in digital art.

Don Archer is MOCA director and administrator. He operates MOCA out of his studio in Brooklyn and Prattsville, NY (USA). He is responsible for the commentary and notes accompanying many of the exhibits.

MOCA conducts a series of digital art contest each year, notably its annual Donnie Contest, and has published 19 print catalogs of its various contests and exhibits in collaboration with Blurb, the online publisher.

MOCA accepts work from both beginning and advanced artists. It hosts such leading digital artists as Alessandro Bavari, Peter Ciccariello, Andrew Cole, Vincenzo Corrado, Bjoern Daempfling, Thomas Demuth, Lisle Drake, Bernard Dumaine, Werner Hornung, Dolores Glover Kaufman, Karin Kuhlmann, Peter Mc Lane,  Janet Parke,  Helga Schmitt,  Renata Spiazzi, Jay Wilson, and Shige Yamada.