CREATORS
JENNIFER AND KEVIN MCCOY
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are New York-based digital media artists whose works extends from film and video to installation and generative software. Recent work includes generative software that uses blockchain technology to create long-term ecosystems for images to live, die and evolve. The McCoys' work has been widely exhibited in the US and around the world - including exhibitions at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The British Film Institute Southbank in London, The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, The Sundance Film Festival and more.
Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. They received a Creative Capital award in 2003 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011. Their work is represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York.
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WRITER
ANNIE J. HOWELL
Annie J. Howell is a screenwriter and director. Her most recent credit is for the film YELLOW ROSE, starring Tony-nominee Eva Noblezada (“Hadestown”), which she wrote with director Diane Paragas. That film is the recipient of eight Grand Jury Prizes for Best Narrative Feature, as well as two Audience Awards, and is distributed by Sony Pictures Worldwide. Howell also wrote the screenplay for LITTLE BOXES, starring Melanie Lynskey and the late Nelsan Ellis, which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and was the highest sale to date out of that festival (sold to Netflix). She has co-written and co-directed two features with Lisa Robinson: SMALL, BEAUTIFULLY MOVING PARTS and CLAIRE IN MOTION. Each film premiered at SXSW and played festivals and select theaters. She is the recipient of the Sloan Feature Film Prize, an IFP Emerging Narrative Award for Best Feature, a Nantucket Screenwriters Colony residency, and a San Francisco Film Society/Rainin Foundation grant, amongst other awards. She has taught at institutions such as Duke University, The New School, Ohio University, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Vermont College of Fine Arts and The City College of New York.
ILLUSTRATOR and ART DIRECTOR
PETER ROSTOVSKY
Peter Rostovsky is a Russian-born artist and writer who emigrated from the former Soviet Union as a refugee in 1980. His fine art has been shown widely in the US and abroad and exhibited at museum venues such as PS1/MoMA, The Walker Art Center, MCA Santa Barbara, Artspace, The Blanton Museum of Art, S.M.A.K., as well as a host of private galleries. His writing—often under the pen name David Geers—has appeared in the magazines October, Fillip, BOMB, The Third Rail Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, Unbag, and Frieze, and spans cultural theory, art criticism, and fiction. Meanwhile, his illustrated fiction and comics-based work has appeared in the Third Rail Quarterly, Unbag, Topic, and in Devil’s Due’s much publicized “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force,” where his contribution was highlighted by the New York Times, Vice, and other media outlets. He is currently working on two forthcoming graphic novels.