Videobjects - "Snofall"
Image by Patrick Lichty

  The Videobjects are a series of self-contained vid video works which utilize single-chip microcomputers and dedicated video boards. the Videobjects challenge the idea of New Media as a platform-specific (i.e. desktop or laptop)-driven form of artwork.

The Videobjects can display sound and graphics, but are very limited in their resolution. This is part of Lichty's aesthetic of Digital Minimalism. The low-resolution of each of the Videobject installations refer to a historical era of personal computing, even one before that of contemporary "Retro" digital genres.

Furthermore, the Videobjects are versatile, as they can be displayed as stand-alone objects, or can be used to drive large-format projections. In this way, a Videobject is not merely the chip and hardware, it is the conceptual field of the computed video in the space allotted for it.


Extant Videobjects:
Snofall (2005) - Formal piece woth endless rain of rectangular pixels.
DNA Generator for the Creation of Undetermined Monsters (2005) - This work creates endless strings of proteins for the random generation of DNA for the creation of unforseen monsters.
Contextual Art Simulator (2005) - Takes physical information about the environment through sensors and shows it as nonsensical data. .

Videobjects - "Contextual Art Simulator"
Image by Patrick Lichty