The Artist
JEFFREY MOSER
Jeffrey Moser is a digital media artist working with the transmediation of culture. “To future generations, the twenty-first century will be known as the time of the great Transmediation of culture, when every scrap of analogue information, sound recording, photograph, and motion picture ascended from its physical form and was preserved in simulated perfection.” His work celebrates this transmediation while warning against its inevitable consequences, the loss of disintegrating or disappearing cultural history.
THE VISION
The following video is a dramatization of the fixation process. It illustrates my original conception of the idea. It came to me in a dream: I saw myself watching a movie and slowly stepped backwards from the screen until more and more of the film came into view. Soon, I was able to see into both past and future as the frames flickered past. First just one-at-a-time, then nine, then twenty-five, then thirty-six, then fifty, a hundred, a thousand…until every frame from the film appears on the screen simultaneously. With nowhere to hide, the film’s motion is completely arrested, and the fixation is complete.
The Fixation of Dumbo from jeffrey moser on Vimeo.