While transferring vintage 16mm films to digital, by projecting the film onto a wall while filming the projection with a digital video camera, I began to see the connections between 16mm film and the frequent freight trains that bisected the campus of the University of Delaware. They are both very long, very thin objects which we only see a small portion of at any one time. These videos are experiments with the amount of film we see at a time, increasing the number of images from one at a time, to three, ten, 108, 432, and even thousands.
Jeffrey Moser’s exhibition “Transmedia PreDelay” incorporates film, new media techniques, and digital objects to explore the aesthetic and expressive potentials at the intersection of database culture and visual experience. Working with a variety of approaches to offset, duplicate, and transform visual images, Moser renders moving pictures static and flat pixels into spatial forms, using the transmediation of audiovisual artifacts as both subject matter and medium