Jennifer & Kevin McCoy

The McCoys are influenced by Lev Manovich and his theories on digital culture and their work often re-examines classic cinema, science fiction, or television through sculptural objects, net art, robotic movies or live performance.

[2][3] In 2014, Kevin collaborated with Anil Dash to co-create Monegraph, short for “monetized graphics.”[4] The work "Quantum", was included in Sotheby's "Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale" in June 2021.

[10] Articles about their work have appeared in Art in America,[11] Artforum, The Wire, dArt International, Spin Magazine, Feed, and The Independent.

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.

From this residency, the artists developed a series of interventions into global capitalism including works such as web-based banner ads satirizing corporate aesthetics and jargon.

[16] The McCoys are best known for their database pieces, in which they break down a series of films or TV shows into individual shots, and categorize them according to a classification schema of their own making.

Shots relating to each category were then burned to a DVD and installed on a shelf in the gallery along with a specially designed video player.

In Soft Rains (2003), the McCoys recreated archetypal scenes from cinema in this miniature form, making references to films such as Goldfinger, Friday the 13th, and Blue Velvet.

Soft Rains consisted of 6 installations: "Beach Adventure," "Cabaret," "Dinner Party," "The Loft," "The Spa," and "Suburban Horror.