In Crossing And Meetings, Ed Emshwiller uses the videodisk to formulate his experiments into the combinations and permutations of human activity, differentiated by various effects and image multiplications. This work is an attempt to understand video techniques and electronic writing, through the creation of a kind of musical structure.

A man walks on a surface with a multitude of landscapes projected onto it: a street, a lawn, a lake, the blue of the studio... almost immediately, the solitary figure of the man is transformed, duplicated into exponential other images of his outline. The single being becomes a crowd, meeting himself, “colliding” with himself. This study of movement refers to the work of Muybridge and is very precisely situated on the border between technological play and the invention of a language.

Stéphanie Moisdon
Translated by Anna Knight