McCoy's profile
McCoy Chance is a Baltimore-based interdisciplinary artist, musician, and educator working across experimental video, hybrid analog and digital media, installation, film, archival material, and live performance. His practice centers on hybrid video systems and repair-based collaboration, treating discarded and abandoned electronics as active, Living objects rather than obsolete things from another time. Through electronic signal chains, hands-on intervention, and collective making, Chance considers what is kept, what is abandoned, and what an electronic afterlife can look like within the realities of global electronic waste circulation. He also examines how these systems shape our current technological world and impact the environment.
Chance’s work often begins in the analog realm, building textures through circuitry, feedback, and the touch of wires. A piece might start with a television pulled from a neglected attic, a session with musicians improvising in front of CRTs, or a conversation with a second-generation repair professional in Baltimore who is still down to talk about signal, failure, and repair. He is drawn to the potential of breakdown and restoration, using repair and experimentation to find traces of memory within the signals he works with.
Chance is an adjunct professor and faculty member at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Visual Arts) and Stevenson University (Film and Moving Image). He received his MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts from UMBC in Spring 2025. Chance’s interactive CRT installations, films, and performances have been screened and exhibited at BINNAR International Festival of the Arts at Casa do Território Museum (Portugal), Lviv Art Palace and Art Museum (Ukraine), The Peale Museum, Area 405, UMBC, the MICA Brown Center, and on Manhattan Neighborhood Network as part of The Americas Film Festival. His films have screened nationally and internationally in Venezuela, Spain, Canada, India, Ukraine, Portugal, Colombia, California, New York, and Baltimore.
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