Feeling/Filling Into, 2023

In Feeling/Filling Into, artist duo LoVid approaches the body and technology with two key aesthetic themes: signals and interaction. Presented as an immersive environment in the lobby of Five Manhattan West, the installation features two animations from the Hugs on Tape series, printed vinyl window frames, and a carpet in their signature and vibrant design. The patterns and colors are sourced from the artist's expansive library of 20+ years of audiovisual recordings. Made via digital and analog processes, hardware analog synthesizers convert electrical current into abstract visuals along with new code-based generative imagery.

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StandardVision Artist Showcase: Permanence and Ephemerality with LoVid's Augury Series

In collaboration with Vellum LA, StandardVision has curated a site-specific artist showcase from interdisciplinary artist collective LoVid’s Augury series, on view across a number of StandardVision’s large-scale exterior displays throughout Los Angeles through August 31st.

Referring to the practice of interpreting omens and predicting the future based on the behavior of birds, Augury harnesses and embraces the chaotic and turbulent flow of data to manifest as sorbet-colored landscapes, dense pattern iterations, and luminous textile designs. This collection builds upon LoVid’s first analog video synthesizer-inspired collection entitled Tide Predictor. Each output in Augury grabs frames from the Tide Predictor algorithm and arranges them on the screen based on a set of instructions, possibilities, and limitations. The generative compositions in Augury are therefore both procedurally related to and visually reminiscent of quilting, tapestry pattern designs, and tactile weaving. A series of responsive still image works, Augury has the ability to adjust to any screen size or dimension.

LoVid’s work incorporates media and material, to engage a wide range of techniques and processes, including DIY electrical engineering, generative code, fabric, and stained glass. Throughout multiple projects, LoVid maintains a signature visual and sonic aesthetic of color, pattern, and texture density, incorporating glitch and noise. LoVid’s work navigates between the handmade and the machine-produced, highlighting the challenges and possibilities of the networked age, particularly a sense of the world that intermixes virtual and physical, permanence and the ephemeral, fantasy and reality, and connectivity.

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heartsleeves: Best Friends, 2024

Best Friends is part of LoVid's generative blockchain video project, heartsleeves. Mixing code-based generative patterns with participatory portraits, heartsleeves embraces the distributed nature of art on the blockchain, converting the community into co-creators who mint their own portraits within LoVid's environment. For Night Lights Denver, LoVid draws from heartsleeves videos of friends' best friends.

Huggez Vous, 2023

LoVid’s Hugs on Tape series started as a series of animations for Instagram during winter 2021 at the height of the Covid shutdown. LoVid felt a sincere urge to connect with loved ones from around the world and create images of the body that represents closeness, emotional presence, and touch. Huggez-Vous is the first public art commission in the Hugs on Tape series produced for 150 Media Stream. This work includes animated spontaneous hugs by members of the 150 N Riverside building’s community. LoVid spent a day in June 2022 filming tenants and visitors hugging friends, colleagues, or strangers. Each animated hug was created with LoVid’s unique analog-digital process utilizing handmade audio/video synthesizers and digital animation software. All the patterns and colors in Huggez-Vous are made exclusively with hardware, analog synthesizers.

Huggez-Vous shines a light on the visceral need for physical contact in the pandemic era, filling up the screen with colorful human interactions that distribute bursts of joy.

Signal Up, 2010