Skin matrix [videorecording] / Ed Emshwiller. [1974]

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Skin matrix [videorecording] / Ed Emshwiller. [1974]

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Ed Emshwiller describes this visually complex work as a layering of computer-generated wipes and manipulated images of various "manifestations of energy," including electronic (light, video), inorganic (rock, sand), organic (wood, plants), human (skin, hair), individual (faces, eyes), and imaginative (art, robot, angel). His intricate technological manipulations of tactile surfaces, landscapes, and human faces transform the external natural world into a richly textured and dynamically patterned inner world.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (17 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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Long Beach museum of art

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...

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