Land Sea and Sky by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

“Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's use of AI produces an artwork that is different from most AI works we see out there. Their deep understanding of art history, photography and digital art movements make this work an important staple of the state of AI art in 2023 and a poetic re-appropriation of American landscapes, which I dearly miss. Finally it's exciting to be a guardian of the first NFT collaboration between Kevin and Jennifer.”

What I love about this work

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Artist Name: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

Artwork Title: 13C-34Land-56Mountains-44Sea-23Sky

Series Size: 300

Creation Date: April 2023

Genre: Video Art, AI Art

Platform: https://www.artwrld.com/   

Blockchain: Ethereum

Partner: Artwrld

Link to the NFT: 

https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xf383ae76ca7e6e85070cb869d5604a217dcd789d/69 

Description:  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.

Links: 

• Official Website: https://www.artwrld.com/projects/land-sea-sky 

• Artnet Article: https://news.artnet.com/market/jennifer-kevin-mccoy-nft-artwrld-ai-2284552

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