Selected videography of LoVid. For inquiries, preview link, and information about additional work please contact Electronic Arts Intermix or the artists @ lovidlovid at gmail dot com

Bumper 2002, 6:29 min, color, sound
Bumper was filmed at the time of our first pregnancy in late 2001/early 2002. At the time we were also making small objects from melted plastic beads in our kitchen. In Bumper we use these objects as accessories and low-tech special effects. The video shows our early interest in futuristic images of the human body's intertwined relationship with natural and technological systems alongside craft and crude DIY aesthetics. Unintended at the time, but recently discovered and newly appreciated, is the audio track, capturing the domestic atmosphere of the time, including background radio and a brief conversation on a telephone

Mystery Solved 2007, 3:47 min, color, sound
We consider Mystery Solved to be the first video recorded with our own handmade synthesizer, Sync Armonica. During a residency at Harvestworks NY, 2006, shortly after completing building the instrument we spent time familiarizing ourselves with it as performers.

Pele's Umbilicus 2011, 8:09 min, color, sound
First presented at The Mission for Temporal Art (Marshall, North Carolina), this video and sound piece creates an electric landscape that flickers between decay and illumination. Part of a series of videos composed with LoVid's handmade analog synthesizer, Pele's Umbilicus creates a hypnotic illusion of traveling into flickering geometries and simultaneously forces an awareness of the screen's planar materiality. Color and motion, in play with static figures in black and white, are set in explosive tension with one another in the final moments of the video, where the intensification of rhythm and a frenetic overlap of color and emptiness effect a totality of saturated incomprehensibility. Preview

cell-a-scape 2015, 4:29 min, color, sound
Aesthetically and thematically in conversation with their earlier piece Breaking and Entering the Lost Time Frame, cell-a-scape continues LoVid's investigation into the intersections between the organic forms of bodies and nature and the inorganic world of technology and electronics. Here, colorful static and electronically generated shapes resembling geometric leaves fluidly blend with one another and the rhythmic bass of the soundtrack. This is overlaid with an image of foliage through a window--the "natural" rendered digitally, deprived of its substance--that recedes and reappears from a vanishing point within the saturated screen space. cell-a-scape visualizes the juxtaposition of media with physical objects, geographic spaces, and human culture, and foregrounds the porous boundaries between the "reality" of nature and the constructed experience of technology.

Digital Dirt Spiderwebs 2016, 9:35 min, color, sound, HD video
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Infinitely Unresolved 2019, 6:43 min, color, sound, HD video
Infinitely Unresolved is a collaboration with performance artist and dancer Arien Wilkerson (TNMOT AZTRO). LoVid and Wilkerson exchanged short dance sequences and DMs that were edited into a dance on desktop collage composition. The video was shot entirely using Facebook and Instagram Live. Selfie reflections, dirty screens, social media emotions, gender, and race representation, are all scrambled by pushing the live "analog video" effects and filters of these social media interfaces to a breaking point. Preview

April 2020, 25:54 min, color, sound, HD video
Commissioned by ISSUE Project Room for their series of "Isolated Field Recordings" streamed online during the global COVID-19 pandemic, April was shot toward the start of quarantine conditions in the US. The video's premiere, which helped raise money for ERASE Racism, took place shortly after the massive public response to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by police. The result is a mournful response to "ruptured times."
"Time feels different now. stretching and folding. We feel the Present louder. The NOW is vaster and we are surviving within it, reassuring our children while remaining close to the truth of uncertainty. It is inescapable. The words GLOBAL/// CRISIS /// are scientific and personal. They melt in our chests - we wake up to them and fall asleep with them. At sunrise we hold onto facts, routines, shipping orders, and recipes. At night it can seem like one large existential metaphor. We repeat the same highly localized walks. We are conflicted by the comfort of natural beauty and question our place within it. We are invaders, observers, maintainers. The cities are burning and American Suburbia is anxious; flickering between boredom, isolation, fractured realities, daydreams, gratitude, and sprouting visions for a new era/generation. The images in this recording were filmed in April (2020) with a temporospatial camera custom-made by Douglas Repetto. The sound was recorded in our home-studio at C Flickering with our handmade synthesizers. Blast this noise and flicker set for ruptured times! Preview

Three Moons 2022, 4:17 min, color, sound, HD video
Three Moons refers to the three seasons—summer, spring, fall—spanned during the project's creation, and accompanying phases of land-care across this timeframe. The video was shot using a temporospatial camera with no viewfinder, custom-made for LoVid by long time collaborator Douglas Repetto. LoVid's unpredictable, experimental approach presents frenetic movement collaged from overlaid images of friends and neighbors who are gardeners, environmental activists, and land caretakers, and the ecological surroundings of the artists' home in Long Island, NY. The footage is set to a free improvised soundtrack by musician Greg Kelley.