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The exhibition coincides with LoVid’s inclusion in two major institutional exhibitions: Electric Op at the Musée d’arts de Nantes (travelling from the Buffalo AKG Museum), and Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms, opening July 2025 at the Toledo Museum of Art.

A key work on view is cell-a-scape (2015), a four-and-a-half-minute video that continues LoVid’s exploration of the blurred line between natural environments and technological simulation. In this piece, colourful static and electronically generated patterns resembling geometric leaves flow in sync with a rhythmic electronic soundtrack. Layered against this are fleeting glimpses of foliage through a window—nature captured, flattened, and digitally recast. The work evokes a landscape mediated through screens, echoing LoVid’s earliest electronic signal based works such as Breaking and Entering the Lost Time Frame (2003), and underscores the duo’s focus on the shifting materialities of perception. cell-a-scape is part of a broader catalogue of LoVid’s video works distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), a pioneering platform for media art that houses many of the duo’s seminal moving image pieces.

Also on display is Extant Maculata (Landscape) (2020), one of LoVid’s intricate painted and embroidered textile works created through a process of digital imaging, dye-sublimation, and hand embellishment—an emblem of their practice’s hybridised aesthetic of touch, texture, and signal disruption.

Additional new tapestries by LoVid will be unveiled in July in a room adjacent to the gallery’s main space, timed to coincide with Jane McAdam Freud: An Absent Presence, a major retrospective presented in dialogue with Louise Bourgeois and Holly Stevenson.

LoVid’s practice explores the boundaries between the digital and the tactile, the bodily and the virtual. Their embroidered works echo the glitches and textures of analogue video, while their moving image pieces conjure a sense of sensory dissonance—where sound and pattern unfold with visceral immediacy. By reimagining the visual language of early electronic media through hand-crafted processes, LoVid resists the slickness of commercial digital aesthetics, offering instead a layered, embodied experience of contemporary technological life.

Throughout their two-decade collaboration, LoVid has developed a singular visual and sonic language—rooted in experimentation, intimacy, and resistance to obsolescence. The works presented in Threaded Frequencies trace the tension between connection and interference, nature and signal, permanence and decay.

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

LoVid’s process includes home-made analogue synthesisers, hand-cranked code, and tangible materials; their videos, textile works, performances, net-art, installations, and NFTs have been exhibited worldwide for over two decades. LoVid’s work has been presented internationally at venues including: Budapest Art Factory, Museum of Moving Image (NY), RYAN LEE Gallery, Art Blocks Curated, Honor Fraser Gallery, New Discretions, And/ Or Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, MoMAPS1, ISSUE Project Room, The Science Gallery Dublin, The Kitchen, Daejeon Museum, Netherland Media Art Institute, and New Museum NY. LoVid’s projects have received grants and awards from organisations including: Guild Hall, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, NY Hall of Science, Signal Culture, Cue Art Foundation, Eyebeam, Rhizome, Franklin Furnace, Turbulence. org, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, NY State Council of the Arts, and Greenwall Foundation. LoVid’s videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and their work is in the collections of private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Moving Image, The Parrish Museum, Thoma Foundation, Watermill Centre, Butler Institute of American Art, and Heckscher Museum.