MOBIUS was a cross-platform motion media arts project exhibiting the work of the world's best contemporary artists and animators. Language-independent, produced, and mastered in full 1080i high definition video, the project begun in October 2003, when Philadelphia-based Concrete Pictures became the primary supplier of HD motion art programming for Rainbow Media's Voom HD satellite platform. Since its inception, the ongoing project has produced over 135 hours of original motion art.

 

Since the project's inception, MOBIUS has worked with over 100 artists from all over the world to produce the largest collection of motion video art in existence. This exhibition presented some of the most innovative pieces from this collection representing the work of artists who have used their production facilities. 

 

Freed from the constraints of commercially driven practices in digital video, the works selected for this exhibition challenged the narrative presuppositions and demands of filmmaking, thus creating an alternative Filmic art, digitally based, but conceptually innovative. A variety of production techniques were employed in a wide variety of genres. For example, live action footage, as seen in works by Peter Rose, Kara Crombie and Gregory King, were featured alongside two and three-dimensional animations created completely in Macromedia Flash software by such artists as Chad Fahs, Mark Johnson, and Ben Jones.

 

All of the works selected represented an alternative to the narrative forms in which most production and viewer relationships depends. As non-linear narrative forms--also known as non-narrative motion art--the viewer’s expectations of logical progression and storytelling were thwarted in favor of creating immersive environments and unexpected visual configurations through the element of time.

 

In addition, the selections were presented in the galleries without an over-determined format for viewing. For the exhibition, monitor stations featuring multiple works were combined with large-scale projections featuring single videos. The artists selected for this exhibition included: Nell Bryer and Jonathan Bachrach, Lili Chin, Sarah J. Christman, Pablo Colapinto, Kara Crombie, Bradley Eros, Chad Fahs, Mark Johnson, Ben Jones, Gregory King, Justin Leavens, R. Scott Purcell, Peter Rose, Sally Sarker, Bonnie Scott, Rob Shaw, and Paul Westergard.