Kyle Lapidus is a musician, an artist, a scientist, a curator, and a promoter. He has been actively involved in noise and experimental music nationally and internationally for over 10 years. Lapidus has been the founder and member of numerous projects including, Velvet Cactus Society, QXW, Malta, and The Helen Keller Project. His recordings have been released on many labels including Shimmy Disc, Stomach Ache, RRR, Gameboy, and Sunship. In 1994 Kyle co-founded the label Ignivomous. Ignivomous has put out many LP's, CD's, as well as Video and Audio Cassettes by a variety of artists. One of his recent projects ORTHO, is a performance based noise group with educational, symbolic, and narrative elements. ORTHO performs regularly within the New York City underground scene and has toured the East Coast and Midwest extensively. In 2001 ORTHO was a contributor to "Artist's Views On Cloning" published in Link Magazine. In this piece and in other ORTHO pieces, Kyle combines his scientific background with his artistic expression. Science and electronics also play a part in Kyle's collaboration with his wife Tali Hinkis in LoVid. He has modified several of LoVid's unique video and audio instruments and is in the process of building additional video and sound generators and processors. Since 2001 Kyle has been a member of the group LEMUR that received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to build musical robots. Kyle has recently finished his robot Shiva that will be exhibited in Artbots, at Eyebeam in New York, this coming spring.
Tali Hinkis is a multidisciplinary artist and a curator. Born in Jerusalem in 1974, Tali grew up in Tel Aviv then moved to Paris, France in 1994 to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In Paris she produced mainly single channel videos and drawings while curating video screenings for festivals in Paris and around the world. Her visual work incorporates elements from different art forms such as dance, music and fashion. In 2000 she received an exchange grant from the Colin Lefranq foundation to come to NYC as an exchange student. In New York she began working primarily as a live video performer, collaborating with musicians, engineers, and other video artists. These collaborations performed in a variety of venues including The Knitting Factory, Tonic, Exit Art and Art In General. In 2001 Hinkis began working with her husband Kyle Lapidus on a video and sound project called LoVid. LoVid has recently completed a cross-country tour and has released videotape on kaboom! Press (www.kaboompress.com). For this project Hinkis is in the process of creating a line of video and video inspired wear. Since her work uses the aesthetic cross over between different media her outfits are very inspired by her graphic and video works and vise versa. In 1998 Hinkis co-founded an annual event called La Superette, an art market where artists and amateurs sell their original and functional art. Since then La Superette has been a successful event and a distributor of the works of over 200 artists. La Superette was recently shown at Cuchifritos in New York.