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LoVid
Rural Electrification
Closing reception:
Sunday, September 12 | 2-4 PM | FREE
Gallery tour with Wade Aaron, Robin Mandel, and Lovid, followed by a discussion with the artists
LoVid explores signals to translate and preserve information and memory. Their work is a mix of high/low tech, craft and real-time interventions. The pair use exposed electronics, conductive wires and live audiovisual feed to create a narrative of a retro-futuristic coexistence between biological and technological systems. The word ‘Wirefull’ describes their aesthetic and philosophy. Wirefull suggests a parallel universe where technology developed by a different evolutionary route and artificial systems are organic, large, chaotic, social and emotional. These ideas are developed throughout their cross-genre work. The installations materialize media into enveloping spaces. Participatory performances and installations highlight audiences involvement as a community and tactile, physical interactions with instruments. This enables audiences to experience otherwise imperceptible connections.
LoVid is one of six selectees from our open call for emerging artists, Step Up.
Step Up 2009 was made possible through the support of our members, the Alexander A. Goldfarb Memorial Trust, Howard and Sandy Fromson, Greater Hartford Arts’ Council United Arts Campaign, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Travelers Foundation, Robinson and Nancy Grover, Gary E. West, National Endowment for the Arts, Lincoln Financial Group, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Nimoy Foundation, and the Ensworth Charitable Foundation.