16 Stills #1

16 Stills is a print collection created to celebrate and contextualize the inclusion of LoVid’s video sculpture 486 Shorts (2006) in the Electric Op exhibition at Buffalo AKG Art Museum. 16 Stills #1 is a grid of sixteen video stills selected from the videos in 486 Shorts that LoVid arranged in a composition revealing the variety, texture, color of this unique process. Each still is a unique moment in time captured first on tape, then on a computer, and finally on paper.  The original video content for 486 Shorts was recorded at a residency at RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY) in 2005. For the recording, LoVid exposed an i486 PC’s graphics card and used wires to directly connect points of the board’s circuitry. They captured the process of shorting the board with a scan converter and recorded the process onto a mini DV tape. The recording reveals the materiality and aesthetics of system failure and the fragility of computer systems. At the time LoVid was interested in ex