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 Ed Emshwiller

*1925—died in 1990. 1949 he earned a Bachelor of Design Degree from the University of Michigan; from 1949 on he studied graphics at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and the Arts Student League in New York; 1979 became dean of the School of Film and Video at the California Institute of the Arts; he taught at Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the State University of New York in Buffalo, among other institutions.
Ed Emshwiller is a major figure in the history of video art. As both an artist and a teacher, his pioneering efforts to develop an alternative technological language in video were enormously influential. He was an architect of the medium's electronic vocabulary and one of its most accomplished practitioners. His early experiments with synthesizers and computers included the electronic rendering of three-dimensional space, the interplay of illusion and reality and manipulations of time, movement and scale - exercises that are now read as a primer of the visual and technological strategies that influenced a generation of early videomakers. Emshwiller came to video from Abstract Expressionist painting, science fiction illustration, and film. As a filmmaker, he established his place in the American avant-garde cinema with such works as Relativity (1966) and Image, Flesh and Voice (1969). His early films featured collaborations with dancers and choreographers, a theme that was continued in his video works, which often include elements of dance, performance and theater.