LoVid: Threaded Frequencies

Known for their layered approach to craft, code, and handmade hardware, LoVid brings together embroidered textiles and experimental video to reflect on the porous boundaries between organic and digital forms.

The exhibition coincides with LoVid’s inclusion in two major institutional presentations: Electric Op at the Musée d’arts de Nantes (a travelling exhibition 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.