Pollen Punch is an audiovisual tapestry composed of very short repeating loops pulled from live video recordings. These recordings were created with LoVid’s A/V synthesizer system of handmade instruments engineered and built by the artists. Rocking the Pixel Generation, Pollen Punch includes rare footage made with LoVid’s 8-bit video instrument, Dragon Slayer (2004), which was created in collaboration with Douglas Repetto. This moving image collage includes naturally occurring glitched frames that were inadvertently created in the process of making Pollen Punch, while compressing each individual video tile. The melange of materials and soundscape is representative of LoVid’s maximalist aesthetic when elements cross pollinate and feed into one another: pixels, sounds, video, noise, and glitch.
