K e v i n   H e c k a r t 

Kevin Heckart lives on, and makes work for the Internet. His 127.0.0.1 is located in Kansas City, Missouri. Most well known for being the creator of the visual aesthetic of "seapunk". Heckart is a self taught Internet artist thus his body of work is fluid, moving between mediums of immersive 3D rendered art to simple .gifs.  Visually the works adopt the style of 90's computer gaming while simultaneously appropriating fragments of internet culture. There is a distinct surrealism that occurs between this mashup allows the viewer to be put in a minimalistic fantasy world. This flexible fantasy can be explored by the viewer online, but remains on the screen, leaving the audience to abruptly recognize the synthetic nature of the body of work as a whole. 



Publications/Press:

AdR Shopping Seapunk -- AdR Factory -- May 2013

Weird Vibes Ep. #14: The Year Seapunk Broke - MTV Hive - March 2013

AZEALIA BANKS GOES SEA PUNK -- FROM Magazine -November 2012

The great Seapunk debate -- SCOUT NETWORK BLOG: observations from the frontlines of popular culture -- November 2012

A Seapunk Primer: Behind Rihanna's "Sh*tty Windows '95 Screen Savers" -- Refinery 29 -- November 2012

Seapunk Makes Big Splash With Ultrademon & DJ Kiff Album And Video -- Mass Appeal -- September 2012

"Dive into Seapunk" WAD #53 - Cocktail issue - June-July 2012 -- WAD Magazine

Clubbers’ Decktionary: Seapunk -- The List (Issue 696) -- April 2012

Seapunk, a Web Joke With Music, Has Its Moment -- New York Times -- March 2012

The Abyss: #seapunk #splishsplash #oceangang -- Cluster Mag -- December 2011

Seapunk: The New Web and the Evolution of the Visual Music Genre -- Lunavega.net -- October 2011

Trendwolves European Youth Trend Report 2013-- Trendwolves 2013. Hard Cover Book

Events/Exhibitions:

2013  Clusterfuck Zoo  - Transfer Gallery - Brooklyn, NY

2014  THE MASSAGE Magazine Issue 9  -  Exhibition / Release in Tokyo, Japan

2014  Ways of Something: a contemporary remake of John Berger’s BBC documentary  - Transfer Gallery - Brooklyn, NY

Education:

2009       A.A.S. in Web Development  Butler Community College   El Dorado, KS