Tide Predictor

LoVid

400 unique artworks

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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

PROJECT ID

0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069-376

CONTRACT

Etherscan

376000347

ABOUT THE ARTIST

LoVid

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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