StandardVision Artist Showcase: Permanence and Ephemerality with LoVid’s Augury Series

In collaboration with Vellum LA, StandardVision has curated a site-specific artist showcase from interdisciplinary artist collective LoVid’s Augury series, on view across a number of StandardVision’s large-scale exterior displays throughout Los Angeles through August 31st.

Referring to the practice of interpreting omens and predicting the future based on the behavior of birds, Augury harnesses and embraces the chaotic and turbulent flow of data to manifest as sorbet-colored landscapes, dense pattern iterations, and luminous textile designs. This collection builds upon LoVid’s first analog video synthesizer-inspired collection entitled Tide Predictor. Each output in Augury grabs frames from the Tide Predictor algorithm and arranges them on the screen based on a set of instructions, possibilities, and limitations. The generative compositions in Augury are therefore both procedurally related to and visually reminiscent of quilting, tapestry pattern designs, and tactile weaving. A series of responsive still image works, Augury has the ability to adjust to any screen size or dimension.

LoVid’s work incorporates media and material, to engage a wide range of techniques and processes, including DIY electrical engineering, generative code, fabric, and stained glass. Throughout multiple projects, LoVid maintains a signature visual and sonic aesthetic of color, pattern, and texture density, incorporating glitch and noise. LoVid’s work navigates between the handmade and the machine-produced, highlighting the challenges and possibilities of the networked age, particularly a sense of the world that intermixes virtual and physical, permanence and the ephemeral, fantasy and reality, and connectivity.

Catch selected works from LoVid’s Augury series on view at Melrose & Spaulding, 3rd Street Crossing, Kurve LA, and 888 N Vermont, through August 31st, and learn more about the collective on their Instagram.