© 1994-2008 Fred Fröhlich
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Video Installation, 2004-2007
VOLUME I
VOLUME I is a computer animation, based on an extensive collection of commercial stock photos.
The unprocessed images are arranged according to criteria of form and content and assembled to a single frame animation. The frames exchange at such a speed that the individual image can hardly be grasped by the eye. A thematically comprehensive selection of pictures refers to the character of the work as an encyclopedia.
© 1994-2008 Fred Fröhlich
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The rush of images is reminiscent of the view from a high-speed train in full career, when people, trees and objects show themselves like mental flashes for a fraction of a second before vanishing instantly, against the backdrop of the passing landscape.
The pictures are actually shown and ordered from image banks chiefly in bulk by graphic designers. The images cause positive associations and are indicated by their semantic exchangeability. All of the images used in VOLUME I are left largely untouched, and are ordered according to formal criteria, such as colour, form, contrast and compositional categories. This classic methodology of gathering, rendered as a type of review of the visible world, highlights simply the encyclopedic character of the process.
VOLUME I invokes an association with dream images. A high-speed ride through supposedly metaphysical images conjures comparison with what s/he has consciously or unconsciously seen elsewhere with the stream of images on the screen, and imitates the state of rapid eye movement. The images move of their own volition and look themselves up their context in the power of imagination of the viewer and emancipate themselves in such a way from the binding to its original purpose.
Thomas Rabisch
© 1994-2008 Fred Fröhlich
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Videosequence, extract from 12.500 frames
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