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Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are New York-based digital media artists whose works extend from film and video to installation and generative software that uses blockchain technology to create long-term ecosystems for images to live, die, and evolve. The McCoys’ work has been featured in exhibitions at the Pompidou Center, MoMA, the British Film Institute, and the Sundance Film Festival, and is held in the collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In 2014, Kevin McCoy minted the world’s first digital art NFT.

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.

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.

We no longer occupy earth and sky but Google Earth and the Cloud. 

 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. 

The short-form works are sold out but can be acquired on the 

 if you are interested in acquiring a long-form collage work. 

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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.

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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.

 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.

Jennifer & Kevin McCoy's Land Sea and Sky Long Form