Melanie Clemmons & Zak Loyd

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 is a new media artist who works in video and installation, net art, digital fabrication and live visual performances. She explores internet culture, speculative futures and digital ethics.

Clemmons has exhibited her work at, among others: HeK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland (via Lorna Mills' Ways of Something); Dieglan Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland; Scope BLN, Berlin, Germany; the Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan (via Lorna Mills' Ways of Something); Light Year, Brooklyn; Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles; LRLX, San Francisco; Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland; Denver Digerati's Supernova, Denver; Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin; Museum of Human Achievement, Austin; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; AURORA, Dallas; and many additional DIY spaces and venues. She is an Associate Professor at SMU in Dallas, TX.

Zak Loyd (Texan, b. 1986) is a new 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 exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; the Dallas Museum of Art; Remote Control Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; and Mock Jungle, Bologna, Italy, among others.

Loyd received his M.F.A. degree in Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. He is a lecturer of New Media Art in the Studio Art Department at the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design, where he also manages the program's studio facilities.