Cups by Shaq
This stereogram is part of a series of thrift-store “discoveries” attributed to a fictional 1998 copyright by Shaquille O’Neal. By embedding uncanny imagery, here, an inverted female figure flanked by goblets, within a nostalgic Magic Eye format, the work plays with post-truth aesthetics and invented provenance. The piece treats the thrift frame as a conduit for alternate cultural memory, suggesting a world where celebrity ephemera, occult symbolism, and digital illusion quietly blur together.
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 narratives. 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.
Media: stereogram, framed
Size: 18”x23”
Year: 2020
Title: Cups by Shaq
Artist: Zak Loyd
Media: stereogram, framed
Size: 18”x23”
Year: 2020
Cups by Shaq
This stereogram is part of a series of thrift-store “discoveries” attributed to a fictional 1998 copyright by Shaquille O’Neal. By embedding uncanny imagery, here, an inverted female figure flanked by goblets, within a nostalgic Magic Eye format, the work plays with post-truth aesthetics and invented provenance. The piece treats the thrift frame as a conduit for alternate cultural memory, suggesting a world where celebrity ephemera, occult symbolism, and digital illusion quietly blur together.
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 narratives. 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.
Media: stereogram, framed
Size: 18”x23”
Year: 2020
Title: Cups by Shaq
Artist: Zak Loyd
Media: stereogram, framed
Size: 18”x23”
Year: 2020