LoVid is a generative art duo based in New York. Their interdisciplinary practice spans performances, participatory public art, handmade technologies, textiles, prints, App-art, experimental video, and immersive installation. They frequently juxtapose media and physical objects, handmade engineering and traditional art or craft.
Renowned for blending technology, craftsmanship, and diverse media, their art combines DIY electronics, video art, and live performances. Their projects explore the digital world's physical and emotional impacts, questioning how technology alters our perceptions and communication. The duo creates immersive and interactive art, utilizing self-built electronic devices, video, and sound. Their work is engaging and provokes thought about digital culture's influence on society.
Their style bridges old and new media, reflecting a deep appreciation for craftsmanship. They emphasize the tangible aspects of electronic media, particularly noted for their unique 'live video' productions using custom-made instruments.
Beyond visual art, LoVid engages in community-focused projects and educational workshops, demonstrating their commitment to sharing their knowledge and passion for creative experimentation with technology.
LoVid’s interdisciplinary work is collected and shown internationally. They have exhibited worldwide, including Netherland Media Art Institute, ICA London, Museum of Modern Art, and Daejeon Museum Korea. Their work is in the collection of museums, including Whitney Museum of American Art, Parrish Art Museum, Heckscher Museum, and The Butler Institute for American Art.
Reaction Bubble was a 2017 collaboration between LoVid, ceramicist Matt Towers, and choreographer Deborah Goffe that used ceramic sculptures, video, interactive technology and dance to explore interactions influenced by physical distances.
LoVid installation of Hugs on Tape, featuring digital audiovisual animations and a dye-sublimation on canvas with hand and machine stitching.
"We’re always interested in the process of translation: from audio to video, from the physical to the virtual, from body movement to composition, from hardware to software."
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heartsleeves is a multiphase generative video project, weaving together disparate shapes and symbols that evoke projects from LoVid’s decades-long artistic career. Each video skin becomes an immersive environment in the portrait studio, where you can incorporate your biometrics & generate your own video portraits.
Pollen Punch is an audiovisual tapestry composed of very short repeating loops pulled from live video recordings. These recordings were created with LoVid’s A/V synthesizer system of handmade instruments engineered and built by the artists. Pollen Punch was exhibited as part of Unit London’s The Pixel Generation.
Stream Processing explores personal histories through a techno-nostalgic tapestry of analogue, digital and handmade visual materials. The hybridity of this work provides connections between fragmented moments in time, as the histories of ancient mediums such as tapestry merge with those of new technology, all whilst embodying personal moments of creation for the artists.
Hugs on Tape translates the human gesture of a hug into two different formats: digital audiovisual animations and dye-sublimation on canvas with hand and machine stitching.
Tide Predictor is LoVid’s Art Blocks Curated release from October 2022, showcasing their love for analog video. It honors RGB colors and analog signals, translating analog work into generative digital art.
Augury features sorbet-colored landscapes and intricate patterns, remixing frames from their previous digital and textile works.
Reaction Wear is an audiovisual performance with wearable technology and movement. LoVid together with collaborators Ashley Byler (dance), Sally Im (costume), Tyler Henry (technology) designed an interface that integrates the body of the performer with technology and the architecture of a performance space. ReactionWear includes a garment with embedded electronics that are incorporated into, as well as dictate, the choreography and the audiovisual composition.
5 Questions With SCENE: LoVid
Decrypt
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Nov 8, 2023
MoMA Postcard: Collaboration and Creativity on Blockchain
MoMA Magazine
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Oct 3, 2023
Permanence and Ephemerality with LoVid’s Augury Series
StandardVision
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Aug 7, 2023
LoVid: The Nature of Experimentation
Expanded.Art
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Jul 11, 2023
In Conversation with LoVid
ArtBlocks
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Oct 31, 2022
Spotlight: In This Invigorating Boston Exhibition, 5 Contemporary Artists Take Textiles in Dazzling New Directions
Artnet News
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Aug 18, 2022
Local artists take center stage in Gallery North’s latest exhibit
TBR NewsMedia
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Aug 19, 2021
5 Questions With SCENE: LoVid | Decrypt | Nov 8, 2023 |
MoMA Postcard: Collaboration and Creativity on Blockchain | MoMA Magazine | Oct 3, 2023 |
Permanence and Ephemerality with LoVid’s Augury Series | StandardVision | Aug 7, 2023 |
LoVid: The Nature of Experimentation | Expanded.Art | Jul 11, 2023 |
In Conversation with LoVid | ArtBlocks | Oct 31, 2022 |
Spotlight: In This Invigorating Boston Exhibition, 5 Contemporary Artists Take Textiles in Dazzling New Directions | Artnet News | Aug 18, 2022 |
Local artists take center stage in Gallery North’s latest exhibit | TBR NewsMedia | Aug 19, 2021 |
Announcements, Series, Heartsleeves
💖heartsleeves is a multifaceted generative video project where code-based, abstract video art skins become the basis for customizable community portraits within the Portrait Studio.
Announcements, Artist, Heartsleeves
LoVid explores the tension of anonymity and community through heartsleeves, an immersive generative experience involving personalized video portraits.
Features, Series, Heartsleeves
With near infinite possibilities on how to customize your heartsleeves video portraits, here are seven ideas to help you get started.
Interviews, Artist, LoVid
Tonic CEO Susannah Maybank interviews Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus on their latest series 💖heartsleeves and the intersection of generative art and blockchain.
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heartsleeves
Tonic
New York, New York
2023
Tangible Timelines
EXPANDED.ART Gallery
Berlin, Germany
Rainbow Country (Group Show)
VSOP Projects, Artsy
Green Point, New York
Message from Our Planet: Digital Art from the Thoma Collection
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Grand Rapids, Michigan
LoVid: Hugs on Tape (Gene/Susan)
Ryan Lee Gallery
New York, New York
I Miss The Future (Group Show)
New Discretions
New York, New York
The Pixel Generation
Unit London
London, UK
2022
Hold On
Postmasters Gallery
New York, New York
Digital Combines
Bitforms Gallery
San Francisco, California
Abstracted (Group Show)
Postmasters Gallery
New York, New York
Stitch! (Group Show)
LaiSun Keane
Boston, Massachusetts
a million little pieces (Group Show)
VSOP Projects
Greenpoint, New York
Somebody Nobody Anybody (Group Show)
Marquee Projects
Bellport, New York
2021
Transfiguration: leaving reality behind (Group Show)
Postmasters Gallery
New York, New York
Winter Break Salon (Group Show)
Marquee Projects
Bellport, New York
2013
Roots No Shoots
Smack Mellon
NYC
2010
Rural Electification
Real Art Ways
Hartford, CT
2006
Reversible Strata Threshing
Butler Institute of American Art
Youngstown, OH
2003
Electricity Is Fun When LoVid Plays Synchro
SOUTHFIRST
NYC
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