Doug,
Among other things, Expanded Cinema was about the moving image becoming
electronic and therefore no longer medium-specific, and some implications of
that. As far as I know, Ed didn’t begin working with video until 1972, when he
made Scape-Mates at the Experimental Television Center at WNET. Scape-Mates
was a pioneering work, however, as it was among the first, if not the very
first, “film” in which photographed human beings interacted with an entirely
synthetic electronic environment. If Ed had made it three years earlier it most
certainly would have been in Expanded Cinema.
I’m currently building a website that will have everything I ever wrote
(including the review of Relativity in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) –
except the 150 articles I wrote for the Los Angeles Free Press, which I’m
collecting in a book. They include the original articles that became Expanded
Cinema. As an added perk, there’s a lot of psychedelic graphics from the pages
of the Free Press that appear for the first time in book form, including the
amazing surrealism of Chick Strand’s husband Martin Muller (“Neon Park”). He’s
known for his album covers, but these are full-page ads he did for KPPC Radio
in the sixties. I’m reproducing them as much in memory of Chick as of Marty.
The website should be ready this fall, and the Free Press book will be
published next year. Also this fall I’m starting a blog called “Secession From
the Broadcast,” which is about my work in radical media theory. The website is
the past, the blog is the future. Its subtitle is “Leave the Culture Without
Leaving the Country.” Thanks for your interest...
From: Doug Chaffin("Douglas Graves")
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 4:21 PM
To: FrameWorks
Subject: [Frameworks] Question For Gene Youngblood
I'm a big fan of your Expanded Cinema book. thank you very much for writing it.
but i'm curious as to why you did not include anything about Ed Emshwiller?
And i was wondering if you could please put up online your review of
"Relativity" ?
Best,
Doug Graves
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