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Born February 16, 1925 · Lansing, Michigan
Born in 1925, Ed Emshwiller studied graphic design at the University of Michigan and L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. By the late '60s Emshwiller was working as a science fiction illustrator, and had 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 he carried over into his videoworks. As both an artist and a teacher, Emshwiller’s pioneering efforts to develop an alternative technological language in video were enormously influential. 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 that explore the relationship between "external reality and subjective feelings." Emshwiller was among the first artists-in-residence at the TV Lab at WNET, where he produced the groundbreaking Scape-mates (1972). Sunstone (1979) was made over a period of eight months at the New York Institute of Technology. Emshwiller passed away in 1990 and an extensive collection of his work is housed by Anthology Film Archives.

Hungers
1987

Skin Matrix S
1984

Skin Matrix
1984

Sunstone
1979

Eclipse
1979

Dubs
1978

Sur Faces
1977
New England Visions Past and Future
1976

Self-Trio
1976

Family Focus
1976
Inside Edges
1975

Crossings and Meetings
1974

Chrysalis
1973
Positive Negative Electronic Faces
1973

Pilobolus and Joan
1973
Identities
1973
Woe Oh Ho No
1972

Scape-Mates
1972
Computer Graphics #1
1972

Thermogenesis
1972

Film with Three Dancers
1971

Choice Chance Woman Dance
1971

Branches
1970

Carol
1970
Images
1970

Image, Flesh and Voice
1969

Project Apollo
1968

Fusion
1967

Relativity
1966
In Three Zones
1966

Art Scene USA
1966

George Dumpson's Place
1965
Faces of America
1965

Scrambles
1964

Totem
1963
Freedom March
1963

Thanatopsis
1963

Lifelines
1960

Dance Chromatic
1959

Transformation
1959
Big Vacation
1958
Monsters
1958

Paintings by Ed Emshwiller
1958
The Thing from Back Issues
1956