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!

Tide Predictor

_Act of Emotion_ investigates digitally-facilitated abstract expressionism: the act of painting itself as a means of expression, extended into mechanical reach.
A reflection upon the future of automation, machine consciousness, creativity, and humankind’s inevitable consequences. As we await the next leap, we cling desperately to our belief that emotive art is an exclusively human experience. 
Inspired by those that came before—pioneering expressionists and contemporaries alike—the system engages in new methods of painting, free from traditionally accepted physical boundaries and artistic expectations. Action painting for the Connected Age; the system is in perpetual concert, recited in real-time and on-demand. 

Questioned by Colin McCahon, and recontextualised here through a generative lens: 
_How to make a painting beat like, and with, a human heart._
The machine’s movements are precise by default, grounded in mathematics. Organic expression must be introduced by twisting and destabilising; a process of broadening bounds that probes the subconscious of both artist and audience. 

Confrontingly minimal abstract compositions highlight the tension between rigid mechanical precision and fluid human intuition. Striping and stippling, swooping and darting; noisy automatism contrasted with coded instinct. 
Gestural abstraction applied with simulation of brush and emulation of media. Presence discovered through colour, texture, light and space; the works emerge as physically-manifested in digital form. 

Are these painted works analogous to physical counterparts? 
Can a machine successfully emotionally connect through this practice?
Let us consider both the intent and the act that realise a painted artwork.

_“Painting is a state of being. Painting is self-discovery.”_ — Jackson Pollock

# Controls:
- **[spacebar]** Pause/resume exhibit
- **[escape]** Reset exhibit
- **[S]** Export a still image at the current render size
- **_Double Click/Tap_** to provide a human touch

# Automatic:
- Render resolution upscales with viewport dimensions. Future exhibits will enhance alongside hardware advance. 
- Playback cadence is hardware-dependent and downscales when limited by hardware. 
- "**Perpetual**" tokens continue their performance indefinitely

# Printing:

Generatively signed giclée print renditions available up to 36x48" / A0.

Act of Emotion

Random and anarchy, chaos and structurality. Jiometory No Compute is a living motion experimental study, a contemplative geometry organism that lives now and forever. Each individual units movement contributes and flows into a generative path for a greater purpose. Together they try to achieve a symbiosis, although an « ideal » computer program is very relative. Exploring domains of definitions and warping an input data-set leads to unexpected behaviors, sometimes surprising, often fascinating.   Interactions : Zoom-in / Zoom-out / Drag left and right / Best view in full-screen. 

ム サクイ デ ムチツジョ、 コントン ト コウゾウセイ。 Jiometory No Compute ハ、 セイブツテキ ナ ウゴキ ノ ジッケンテキ ケンキュウ デ アリ、 ゲンザイ ソシテ エイエン ニ セイチョウスル シコウテキ ナ キカガクテキ ユウキブツ デス。 ココ ノ ユニット ノ ウゴキ ハ、 オオキナ モクテキ ノ タメ ノ セイセイ ニ ナガレコミ、 ツカワレマス。 « リソウテキ ナ » コンピュータ プログラム ハ ヒジョウ ニ ソウタイテキ デス ガ、 ソレラ ハ キョウセイ ヲ タッセイシヨウ ト スル ノ デス。 テイギ ノ ドメイン ヲ タンサクシ、 ニュウリョク データセット ヲ ワープスル コト デ、 ヨキシナイ ドウサ ガ ハッセイシ、 トキニハ オドロク ベキ、 シバシバ ミリョクテキ ナ ドウサ ヲ ウミマス

Unique working GameBoy Cartridges certificate are redeemable for every holders of the Jiometory No Compute artworks to be displayed as a special and rare piece of hardware art. Because they are completely hand-made / crafted, those will be available in small batches for an additional fee, some more informations about the cartridges will be released after the sale.

Jiometory No Compute - ジオメトリ ハ ケイサンサレマセン

A cryptoart collectible series to indulge the irrepressible human compulsion for pareidolia. This algorithmic homage to Hermann Rorschach's inkblot perception test will help you externalize your inner world onto the sometimes elegant, sometimes inchoate curves of a unique, one-of-a-kind, ownable cryptoblot on the Ethereum blockchain. What will YOUR cryptoblot reveal about you?

Cryptoblots

white noise contains all possible harmonics/notes/chords. by filtering out narrow frequency bands from the noise, pure sine wave “notes” become audible. we’ve limited these bands to only ever reveal specific notes from a particular musical scale. 

each piece then, is a unique iteration of this scale with different notes from it gaining prominence. sometimes they will be chordal and sometimes dissonant but always beautiful because the scale is beautiful.

visually, the white noise is represented by particles which congeal into dense lines. each line that appears is a specific note you can hear and it's amplitude is defined by the corresponding particle density. chords are represented by the lines crossing over each other.

so in summary, it's a quite literal visual representation of sound moving from an arbitrary form to musical form. natural order from chaos with infinitely variable patterns depending on which notes are audible. 

*note we’ve implemented the following variables for more radical variation in particle behavior in addition to the random generation of notes and their corresponding patterns.

- particles will either form straight line shapes or curved shapes 
- particles with vary in size from one iteration to another 
- particles will either favor white or black as their prominent b&w bias creating stark contrast between iterations as well as variables in between the two extremes
- some iterations will reveal faster and some slower

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