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Kevin McCoy

Featured in 1 editorial and mentioned in 4 more. Mentioned in 1 podcast episode. The subject of 2 Timeline moments and mentioned in 4 more (2008 to 2021). Appears alongside 173 other people.

Kevin McCoy is a media artist and one half of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, whose work extends from the moving image and software to drawing, painting and installation. Their work Quantum played a pivotal role in early NFT history.

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Once I clicked into that fundamental concept of digital scarcity—that this system makes digital information unique in the sense that I can send you my Bitcoin and I don't have it anymore. Then it was a pretty short step—given my background as a digital artist and art and technology person into net.art—to imagine you could make an artwork unique like that.

Kevin McCoy, Kevin McCoy on Bridging net.art and Blockchain

Net.art was just an element in a broader form of digital experimentation and digital creativity that was happening and that broader ethos was very much about decentralization, anti-authoritarianism, bottom-up approaches and anti-surveillance. Then I started seeing with Bitcoin, especially at that early time, a very cypherpunk, anti-authoritarian project.

Kevin McCoy, Kevin McCoy on Bridging net.art and Blockchain

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