YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- The Butler Institute of American Art presents the exhibit LoVid (Kyle Lapidus and Tali Hinkis): Reversible Strata Threshing through January 14, 2007. LoVid delves into futures past, unearthing relics of cultures that might yet have been. Video signals become solid state memories, materializing as collaged tapestries and 3D printed Sync Vessels. LoVid also excavates ancient creatures of the deep, Archaetech, who synthesize and emit electronic bleeps and groans, and VideoWear avatars for Glimps that have evaporated into the electronic ether.

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.