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shadow play - Lydia Moyer

A large scale outdoor video projection which makes use of the seemingly irresistible desire to cast one’s shadow in projected light (Video still by Lydia Moyer).

Lydia Moyer: Bio

Lydia Moyer makes experimental videos that are shown nationally and internationally at festivals and art galleries. Most recently, her work was part of a screening at the Reykjavik Art Museum in Iceland. She has been awarded a film and video fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond for 2009-10 and is on leave from the University of Virginia where she teaches new media in the art department. For more information regarding her work, please visit www.goodfornow.net.

Skater - Lydia Moyer

Skater (video still)

Skater
2007
1 min 36 sec

This video loop is an attempt to capture the solitary magic of a snowy day. The landscape remains just visible behind an ice skater who disappears into and then reappears from a cloud of white lights hovering in the cold air.