Hugs on Tape (Sam / Tim), 2022
Installation view, Tie Up, Draw Down, Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, Asheville NC, 2017
Installation view, SOUTHFIRST Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2003.
LoVid's interdisciplinary works explore the often invisible or intangible aspects of contemporary society, such as communication systems and biological signals. They are particularly interested in the ways technology seeps into the evolution of human culture.
LoVid’s practice includes performances, participatory public art, handmade technologies, textiles, prints, App-art, experimental video, and immersive installations. They focus on the juxtaposition of media with physical objects, geographic spaces, and the human touch. They are interested in bridging between handmade engineering and traditional art or craft forms by using a DIY philosophy and aesthetic. This allows them to reflect on the role of handmade production and the physical gesture of art making in a time increasingly dominated by machines and virtual experiences.
As a complementary part of their practice, they also apply machine-based and digital fabrication techniques that highlight their view of the critical importance of human/machine interaction in the digital age. LoVid’s diverse practice invokes processes and ideas from art, science, and technology, to question perceptions of time, place, and the self in the networked era.
LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) is a NY-based interdisciplinary artist duo working collaboratively since 2001. LoVid has exhibited and performed internationally including at: Gazelli Art House, Picture Theory, Nantes Museum of Arts, Buffalo AKG Museum, Museum of the Moving Image, Grand Rapids Museum, Menil Collection, Anthology Film Archives, Postmasters Gallery, Honor Fraser Gallery, The Parrish Museum, MoMA, Issue Project Room, Science Gallery Dublin, The Jewish Museum NY, Daejeon Museum, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Butler Institute of American Art, and New Museum. LoVid has received grants and awards from organizations such as The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Graham Foundation, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, Wave Farm, Rhizome, Franklin Furnace, NYFA, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Experimental TV Center, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Greenwall Foundation. LoVid’s work is in private and public collections including the Whitney Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, Le Random, the Parrish Museum, Thoma Foundation, and the Heckscher Museum.