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Sharing this as a standalone post for my own records. Here is a interview Anika Meier and I did for Sleek Magazine
sleek-mag.com/article/what-h…
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Kevin McCoy
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Kevin McCoy
@mccoyspace
An artist in New York City. Professor at NYU. Chair, Department of Art and Art Professions
- May 2014. I was way ahead of my time but I was right
- 23 years ago, in 2001 @whitneymuseum organized a huge exhibition “Bitstreams: Art in the Digital Age” Let’s look through the exhibition guide of this important moment in digital art and I’ll add a few comments. 1/15
- Yesterday he hit his success metrics (which includes high market cap) and got a big options payout. He now wants to make the tax exposure for exercising those options as small as possibleTesla's Elon Musk says Tesla's share price is too high. Tesla's share price falls bloom.bg/2yhtqVy
- 10 YEARS AGO TODAY: I had an idea how blockchains could create unique ownership and provenance for digital art. @anildash and I called the idea Monetized Graphics - or Monegraph. This artwork Quantum was the first one of this kind. Now thankfully many many ppl share this vision
GIF - Thanks to @michael_connor for finding my 2013 email pitching my idea for blockchain based ownership for digital art. The first working examples came a few months later in 2014
- Found this quote from a 1977 @nytimes article about AI. These are totally my motivating questions as an artist
- Digital art never was monkey picturesWe still need to dissociate digital art from "monkey pictures" if we want to move forward in a meaningful way.
- Really happy to announce this publicly. Thanks to @PostmastersNYC @whitneymuseum @ChristianePaul2 + museum trustees and supporters who rallied behind this acquisition. I truly love this piece and Jenn and I couldn’t be happier with entrusting it to this institution
- Some pages from Alexander Galloway’s 2004 book “Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization” from MIT Press This book had a big influence on me The cover is a photo by Charles Peterson who did all the early album covers for Sub Pop Records. Charles and I went to high
- Just a reminder to NFT folks, in general, traditional galleries run shows for 6 weeks, with at least a week between shows. So maybe 7 shows a year, plus a summer group show. Then 2 or 3 fairs where they show 5 or 6 gallery artists. The volume is way less than in NFTs
- I’ve put works on-chain every year since 2013
