Artist's Statement

LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Our work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. We explore the translation, decay, and preservation of natural, electrical, and biological signals through a cross media and interdisciplinary practice. We are interested in the history and development of systems in the natural and artificial worlds, and in the linguistic and physical relationships between these systems. Elements and patterns of different scales and textures are combined, forming visual metaphors for human understanding of the world in the networked-technological era.

Live video is a core component of our work. We create our own audio/video sculptural synthesizers, which are modular and multifunctional. With them, we use electrical signals to blur sensory boundaries by making sound visible and image audible. Our instruments are in a trans-generational dialog with early experimentation in image processing as well as current aesthetic pursuits within hacker culture and software art. The synthesizers are included in performances or live video objects and installations. These objects and installations are materializations of media into physical forms and enveloping spaces. When performing with our instruments we create live, intense, chromatic, audiovisual noise. These visceral performances join our tactile approach to technology as an extension of the human body with media spaces that extend the human mind.

Our collages and patchworks are saturated reconstructions of video stills printed on paper and fabric. They are charged with vibrant textural details that emerge from our videos, and expand on their explosive and chaotic, yet delicate and composed constitution. Capturing and preserving transient video signal in physical materials is also conceptually important for us, as it catalyzes the preservation of time. The physical manipulation of these images through repetitive gestures such as sewing or cutting imbues an added layer of memory. Each piece is a recording of fragmented time, a relic from a parallel universe where media is tangible and emotional.

Artist's Bio

LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Our work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. We combine many opposing elements in our work, contrasting hard electronics with soft patchworks, analog and digital, or handmade and machine produced objects. This multidirectional approach is also reflected in the content of our work: romantic and aggressive, wireless and wire-full. We are interested in the ways in which the human body and mind observe, process, and respond to both natural and technological environments, and in the preservation of data, signals, and memory.