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16 Stills #2

16 Stills #2

LoVid
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16 Stills is a print collection created to celebrate and contextualize the inclusion of LoVid’s video sculpture 486 Shorts (2006) in the Electric Op exhibition at Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

16 Stills #2 is a grid of sixteen video stills selected from the videos in 486 Shorts that LoVid arranged in a composition revealing the variety, texture, color of this unique process. Each still is a unique moment in time captured first on tape, then on a computer, and finally on paper. 

The original video content for 486 Shorts was recorded at a residency at RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY) in 2005. For the recording, LoVid exposed an i486 PC’s graphics card and used wires to directly connect points of the board’s circuitry. They captured the process of shorting the board with a scan converter and recorded the process onto a mini DV tape. The recording reveals the materiality and aesthetics of system failure and the fragility of computer systems. At the time LoVid was interested in exposing, embracing, and revisiting old discarded technologies with performative gestures to develop a new abstract time-base visual vocabulary. 20 years later they returned to these early recordings and created the four images of 16 Stills.

  • Year: 2024
  • Medium: Archival pigment print
  • Image size: 16" x 24"
  • Paper size: 22" x 30"
  • Edition size: 8 + 2 AP

Print/Frame Details

  • Archival ink on acid-free paper
  • Stamped and numbered verso, includes certificate of authenticity
  • Engineered hardwood frames in black, white, or natural finish
  • Flat profile frame, 1 1/8" wide by 3/4" deep
  • Framing not available for international orders
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About the Artist

LoVid is a NY-based interdisciplinary artist duo working collaboratively since 2001. Their practice focuses on aspects of contemporary society where technology seeps into human culture and perception. Throughout their projects LoVid has maintained their signature visual & sonic aesthetic of color, pattern, & texture density, with disruption & noise. Their work captures an intermixed world layered with virtual and physical, materials and simulations, connection and isolation.

Their work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Moving Image, The Parrish Museum, Thoma Foundation, and others.

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