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Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are a Brooklyn, New York-based married couple who make art together. They work with interactive media, film, performance and installation to explore personal experience in relation with new technology, the mass media, and global commerce. They often re-examine classic genres and works of cinema, science fiction or television narrative, creating sculptural objects, net art, robotic movies or live performance. They were awarded a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship.〔http://www.gf.org/fellows/17102-kevin-mccoy〕〔http://www.gf.org/fellows/17101-jennifer-mccoy〕 ==Artwork== In 1999, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy undertook the "World Views" residency programme on the World Trade Center's 91st floor. From this residency, the artists developed a series of interventions into global capitalism. For example, the McCoys created web-based banner ads satirizing corporate aesthetics and jargon. The artists then used the Doubleclick.com network to distribute 1 million of these banner ads over one month, from mid-August to mid-September 1999. Doubleclick.com, which sponsored the project, did not inform sites on which the ads were displayed that they were playing host to an artistic intervention.〔(Internet Retrograde: The Rise of Infomercials ) 1999〕 The McCoys are well known for their database pieces, in which they break down a series of films or TV shows into individual shots, and categorise them according to a classification schema of their own making. For example, the piece 'Every Shot Every Episode' (2001) was a collection of 10,000 shots from the Starsky and Hutch television series that were categorised according to 278 categories such as 'every plaid', 'every sexy outfit', 'every yellow Volkswagen'. Shots relating to each category were then burned to video CD and installed on a shelf in the gallery along with a small, specially designed video player. In 2002, the McCoys created "Horror Chase." According to their website (mccoyspace.com) " This work is based on the climatic chase sequence from Evil Dead II. The artists re-enact the scene on a specially designed stage set. Each shot in the sequence is individually digitized. Custom computer software selects these clips at random, playing them back in a seamless but continuously variable way, changing the speed and direction of play. The images are projected at cinematic scale and the computer hardware is installed in a black briefcase, which forms part of the installation."〔http://www.mccoyspace.com/project/45/〕 In 2004, the dormant Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center (now Jetblue Terminal 5) at JFK Airport briefly hosted an art exhibition called Terminal 5〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Municipal Art Society New York, February 9th, 2004 )〕 curated by Rachel K. Ward〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Designobvserver.com, Tom Vanderbilt, January 14, 2005 )〕 and featuring the work of 18 artists〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The Architects Newspaper, September 21, 2004 )〕 including Jennifer & Kevin McCoy. The show featured work, lectures and temporary installations drawing inspiration from the idea of travel — and the terminal's architecture.〔 The show was to run from October 1, 2004 to January 31, 2005〔 — though it closed abruptly after the building itself was vandalized during the opening party.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Architectural Record, John E. Czarnecki,, October 11, 2004 )〕 More recently, the McCoys have been creating works that use miniature dioramas similar to model railroads or dolls' houses. Live video cameras are embedded in each diorama, capturing the miniature figures and landscapes from various angles. The resulting video feeds are then sequenced by special computer software which acts as the film editor, creating a real-time animated film sequence to be projected on the gallery wall. 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.' The 'Traffic' series (2004) were recreations of moments from the artists' personal histories when they had a particular memory of viewing specific films. For example, Traffic #1: Our Second Date recreates the McCoys' second date when they went to see a film by Jean-Luc Godard at a cinema in Paris. "I'll Replace You," (2008) offered a glimpse of the private life of the McCoys. The McCoy's staged scenes of their daily routines such as waking up, getting their children ready, teaching, meeting up with friends, etc.Kevin and Jennifer are 'replaced' by actors. Fifty actors were hired. In 2012 at Project Space in Seattle, WA set up a project called "Northwest Passing." The artists borrowed work from collectors of northwest art. They then hired actors who knew nothing of the work to give improvised tours. Use of the term passing refers to actors 'passing' as experts, Jennifer and Kevin 'passing' as northwest artists, and the art itself 'passing' as northwest art. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jennifer & Kevin McCoy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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