Crossings and meetings [videorecording] / Ed Emshwiller. [1982]

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Crossings and meetings [videorecording] / Ed Emshwiller. [1982]

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In Crossings and meetings Ed Emshwiller applies video techniques to an essentially musical structure. Beginning simply with the image and sound of a lone man walking, the piece becomes increasingly complex as the image is electronically manipulated into proliferating permutations. The walking figure is duplicated, slowed, accelerated, reversed, syncopated, and overlapped. When the man encounters a woman, variations on the theme of meeting and crossing develop and multiply into a dance of male and female figures in an abstracted, colorized space. Rhythmic movements and sounds crescendo and subside in what Emshwiller describes as a "visual fugue."

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.1 videocassette of 1 (Betacam SP) (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. archival master.1 videocassette of 1 (Digital Betacam) (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. copy master.1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. use copy.

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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...