Melanie Clemmons and Zak Loyd: Trophy Club Nissan
January 6 - February 17, 2024
Golf, 2023, AI generated video art, custom digital frame, 6.5 x 4.5 in.
Trophy Club Nissan features new work generated with emergent large language models and deep learning, text-to-image AI platforms. The collaborative output between the artists and technology is translated across various media, including post-photographic prints, video art, programmable LED signs, printed fabric, and laser-etched surfaces. ‘Trophy Club Nissan’ draws inspiration from the cultural milieus of middle-class suburban life in North Texas and focuses on how current AI models might perceive how such communities are molded by algorithmic filter bubbles and their effects on identity, aesthetics, and everyday behavior.
Melanie Clemmons and Zak Loyd have partnered since 2009, creating immersive video, laser, and XR installations, crafting internet-based art, and delivering visual experiences for live music in both physical and virtual venues.
Melanie Clemmons (she/her) is a new media artist working in video and installation, net art, and live visual performances. She critically explores internet culture, speculative futures, and digital ethics. Melanie collaborated with renowned activist-artists Pussy Riot on music videos and live performance visuals, and her work has been showcased nationally and internationally in exhibitions, tours, and artist residencies. She is an Associate Professor at SMU in Dallas, TX.
Zak Loyd (he/him) is a media artist and educator interested in the mystical implications of video art histories, machine learning technologies, internet culture, and post-truth politics. His intermodal work includes video, installation, performance, crypto-art, and prose. He has shown at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Rhizome; The Dallas Museum of Art; Remote Control Gallery, Prague; and Mock Jungle; Bologna, among others. He received his MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices from the University of Colorado. He is currently a Visual Art Technician and Adjunct Faculty in New Media Art at the University of North Texas.