Re:mediation is a video installation that runs on a continuous loop, it consists of childhood photos that slowly reduces itself into a singular pixel of color. As each photograph zooms in, itself beginning as a singular pixel, the image blurs and disintegrates; eventually the audience is left enveloped by a digital monochrome as the next image begins to appear to continue the cycle. Janelle L. Wilson in her book Nostalgia: Sanctuary of Meaning argues that “expressing and experiencing nostalgia require active reconstruction of the past—active selections of what to remember and how to remember it.” Nostalgia speaks to a selected memory where the image is recalled to us through bits and pieces. I wanted to reflect that by having photographs emerge and dissolve/disintegrate back into that singular pixel which makes up a digital image. The zooming photograph echoes that of a fading memory, where we no longer see or remember the cohesive picture. While our memories fade, the photograph is reduced to this one pixel that at the same time represents the entire photograph/memory and none of it.
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