Jennifer & Kevin McCoy x Artwrld
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Land Sea and Sky Minting Soon
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy’s collection, Land Sea and Sky, marks the artists' debut collaboration with an NFT platform following the sale of the first-ever NFT, minted by Kevin McCoy in 2014.
The collection consists of 310 animated collage works – 300 short-form works available for random mint and 10 long-form works with audio available at a fixed price.
March 7 at 11 AM EST: Allowlist registration opens
March 29 at 10 PM EST: Allowlist registration closes
March 31 by 3 PM EST: Allowlist winners notified
April 5 at 11 AM EST: Collectors of Artwrld’s previous drops will automatically be given first access to the McCoy’s collection. Artwrld collectors will also be able to mint during the allowlist mint.
April 5 at 12 PM EST: Allowlist minting is live
April 6 at 12 PM EST: General public minting is live
Contact us directly if you are interested in acquiring a long-form collage work.
Landscape Collages
Discover the Collection
Expanding upon their previous work with landscapes and the built environment, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy have devised a series of enigmatic collages embedded in the vernacular of the American West. Using formal cut-outs inspired by the compositional aesthetics of 20th-century landscape photography, the artists have created a series of landscapes derived from five databases of AI-developed source images. Using StableDiffusion, the artists generated hundreds of landscape images, which were then sorted into five different descriptive databases - Land, Sea, Mountains, Trees, and Sky. Searching these categories, custom scripts generated recombinant landscapes based on compositional structures from archetypal 20th-century landscape photographs, intertwining early 20th-century visual constructs of nature with 21st-century technology.
Activating distinct elements of each collage with image processing, the interaction of the layers juxtaposes established media processes like photography and collage with the rapidly evolving technology of AI. In the McCoys’ quest for AI-generated images that look more like memory than fantasy, their hand-crafted prompts evoke cross-country road trips, Ektachrome film, and the strange, hazy yellow-green tint of their childhood snapshots. The resulting images sit in the uncanny valley of distant memory.
Meet the Artists
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are digital media artists whose works extends from film and video to installation and generative software. Their work often seeks to situate new technologies within our contemporary culture, using new tools to question their impact both on an individual and collective level.
The McCoys' work has been widely exhibited in the US and internationally, including notable exhibitions at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the British Film Institute-Southbank in London, and The Sundance Film Festival. Their work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the 21C Museum, and the Speed Museum. They received a Creative Capital award in 2003, the Wired Rave Award for Art in 2005, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011, and a Headlands Alumni Award in 2014. In 2022 Kevin received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for co-developing the technology that eventually became known as the NFT.
The McCoys have selected Rhizome as the official nonprofit partner organization for the collection to receive a portion of proceeds from both primary and secondary sales. Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.
FAQ
Yes, every collage work has been assembled by the artists.
For Artwrld collectors or members of the allowlist who mint before the public drop, the short-form collage works will be available for .2 ETH.
During the public drop, this price will increase to .35 ETH.
The long-form collage works are 6.5 ETH each. Email us at info@artwrld.com for more details.
March 7 at 11 AM EST: Allowlist registration opens
March 29 at 10 PM EST: Allowlist registration closes
March 31 by 3 PM EST: Allowlist winners notified
April 5 at 11 AM EST: Collectors of Artwrld’s previous drops will automatically be given first access to the McCoys' collection. Artwrld collectors will also be able to mint during the allowlist mint.
April 5 at 12 PM EST: Allowlist minting is live
April 6 at 12 PM EST: General public minting is live
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