VideoWear is LoVid’s seminal work from 2003 -- garb for a retro-futuristic universe where technology has developed as an extension of organic systems. 14 LCD screens, interconnected by hundreds of feet of wire, are embedded in protective sportswear and covered with sewn patchworks of video stills. 

This wearable video sculpture was featured during LoVid’s performances and exhibitions, primarily from 2003-2008. Performing with VideoWear, LoVid become video marionettes. In their absence, all that remains is their avatars and puddles of video signal. 

 

The only formal documentation of the original VideoWear existed as a series of analog photographs from 2004, taken before LoVid refurbished the garments in 2005. In 2022, they discovered that the original photo negatives were damaged/remixed by mold and water, so they scanned them in their modified form to create this new series of photographs. This work shows the fragility of physical materials and the enmeshment of technology with nature, finding beauty in error, chance, and obsolescence.