LoVid’s signature video work mixes handmade analog synthesizers with digital tools in immersive Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) compositions that celebrate luminosity, chaos, relationships between craft and engineering, and connections between body and tech.
Tide Predictor, LoVid’s first onchain generative work, builds a bridge from video synthesizer patches to algorithmic code-derived imagery. This collection is formally and technically inspired by hardware-based image generation, and places experimental moving-image, circuit boards, and electrical signal-based video art at the conceptual roots of generative art.
Tide Predictor is a modular video synthesizer patch model, designed to reflect the analog spirit by working with three channels: RGB. Tide Predictor reimagines NTSC-encoded, oscillator driven electrical current based video synthesis while adding digital randomness/unpredictability, and transformations based on code, along with each mint’s unique content.
In the late 19th century, mechanical analog computers used rhythm and repetition to anticipate the rise and fall of water levels. In addition to “tides”, which are low frequency oscillations of the ocean, higher frequency changes or “waves” are frequently discussed in reference to both water and electrical signals. By working with looping - and explicitly addressing the period (=1/frequency) for each RGB color - Tide Predictor extends analogies between the flow of water and the flow of electricity.
LoVid’s Tide Predictor brings these relationships from the blockchain, through your screen, straight to your retina!
RELEASE DATE
2 Nov 2022
LIBRARY
p5@1.0.0
DISPLAY NOTES
Please note that this work includes the flashing and vibration of bright colors and may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.
CREATIVE CREDITS
Code by Douglas Repetto
RELEASE DETAILS
400 works released on 2 Nov 2022
CHARITABLE GIVING
25% of proceeds will be donated to a fund providing grants for transmission artist projects through Wave Farm
TAGS
ARTIST SITE
http://lovid.org...
PROJECT ID
0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069-376
CONTRACT
Etherscan
LICENSE
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tali Hinkis b. 1974 Jerusalem, Israel Lives and works in New York
Kyle Lapidus b. 1975 New York Lives and works in New York
Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus have been working collaboratively as the New York-based artist duo LoVid since 2001. LoVid’s work incorporates media and material to engage a wide range of techniques and processes, nagivating between the handmade and the machine-produce...
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