Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

Lecture at VCU on Monday, October 10, 2011.

• 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 comm
• • They were awarded a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship.
• • Jennifer- Was always interested in what went on behind the scenes- ie the background in order to give respect to the work that went into the things that went on behind the scenes.
    • You want to take things that you've seen and make new things from them.
    
    
    
    

"Horror Chase"

• Evil Dead- inspired sequence

-Didn't like the way the shots ended up in the original film.

   So they rebuilt the set.

  -Shot sequences of chases in the set, and entered it into the software.

-the software creates essentially a giant flip book that changes the effects of the video.

The piece stays inside the tight space, but plays more or less endlessly.

-As a viewer you stay inside a fairly claustrophobic environment, but the changes in lenses and acts. So the variations become clearer everytime you watch it.

They wanted the set to be on view with the video.