Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
Artist duo working on film, memory and language, makers of the first NFT, Quantum
Biography
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy make multimedia works that examine the genres and conventions of filmmaking, memory and language. They build subjective databases of narrative material and create miniature film sets that stage live cinematic events. Their work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou, MoMA, the BFI in London, the Beall Center, the San Jose Museum of Art and the Sundance Film Festival, and is in the collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the 21c Museum. Awards include a Creative Capital Award (2003) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011). They also made the 2001 Gate Page 201: A Text Algorithm, and Kevin McCoy made Circler for CODeDOC. Public Key / Private Key explores museum ownership and donor roles by donating a 16mm film to the Whitney on behalf of the public, with fifty donors chosen through blockchain based digital certificates that they can transfer.
Links
Connections to 100 collectors
Not on this list because of a market.
On it because collectors noticed.
See more about Jennifer & Kevin McCoy on 100 collectors:
Ready to join?
Want conversations like this with artists like Jennifer & Kevin McCoy? That's what 100 collectors membership is for.
Not sure yet? See what membership includes →