LoVid is a New York-based artist duo of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus, who have worked together since 2001.,Their practice spans video, textiles, performance, installation and code-based generative art.,Analog video synthesizers have been central to it since the duo formed.They record live signals as video, then take stills, recompose them and translate them into other media.
Hinkis studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1994, where she moved from painting and printmaking to video. Lapidus studied neuroscience at Harvard and was introduced to modular synthesizers in electronic music classes with Ivan Tcherepnin. The name LoVid joins Lo-Video, in the sense of low tech, with Loved.They began with live audiovisual performances and moved towards object making for their first solo exhibition, at SOUTHFIRST in 2003.In 2004 they built their first video instrument, an 8-bit synthesizer called Dragon Slayer, with Douglas Repetto. A year later, at Eyebeam, they built the modular audio-video synthesizer Sync Armonica, which has produced most of their visual and audio work since.
486 Shorts, first conceived in 2006, consists of 486 video clips captured by short-circuiting an old i486 PC graphics card. The clips play on a monitor set on a pile of electronic waste that grows with each exhibition.In 2008 they presented videos and an audiovisual performance at MoMA.Their textile works are printed on polyester by dye sublimation and pieced together from cutouts stitched by hand along the edges. The 2022 exhibition “Hold On” at Postmasters Gallery in New York showed these textiles alongside Hugs on Tape, looping animations of people embracing that were offered as NFTs.Tide Predictor, from 2022, is their first onchain generative work and carries video synthesizer patches into code.The Museum of the Moving Image added Tide Predictor #173 to its permanent collection.Augury, released in 2023, arranges frames from Tide Predictor into compositions that draw on the Pattern and Decoration movement and glitch art.,
In 2025 Gazelli Art House in London presented “Threaded Frequencies”, and their work was included in “Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms” at the Toledo Museum of Art.,,Their first solo exhibition with Picture Theory in New York, “Hotter than the Sun”, opened in 2026.,It included the sculptural installation Emails from the Paleolithic, made with motors, rocks and sound composed by Dan Friel.Their work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of the Moving Image and the Parrish Art Museum.
