Williams, Emmett, 1925-2007
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1925 April 4 - 2007 February 14
Nationality
American
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
A-Journey / Williams, Emmett., 1979
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Identifier: CC-56962-62936
Scope and Contents
These prints, depicted as reproductions in this issue, were shown in a show entitled Generations and Continuities (1979-1980) held at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University.At the opening of the exhibition Yo-Yo Ma himself performed Incidental Music for Yo-Yo Ma, playing a Bach unaccompanied suite, accompanied by the late Ivan Tcherepnin making waves of electronic distortion to match the progressive complexity of the score. There were five suites of serigraphs shown in the exhibition - Eros, Shakespeare's XXXth, A-Journey, Impressions of Japan and Incidental Music for Yo-Yo Ma were produced by Edition Noël at Harvard in 1979-1980. All of them are based on experiments in the electrostatic distortion and generation of texts and images. To oversimplify: I used the Xerox 3100 duplicating machine at Leverett House, Harvard University, as a creative tool to perform tasks that makers, buyers and users of such machines used to consider (a) a misuse of sophisticated...
Dates:
1979
Aleph, Alpha, and Alfalfa, 1993
Item
Identifier: CC-00549-562
Progression No.1 / Announcement for Subscription to Material / Williams, Emmett; Dahl, Juergen., 1958
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Identifier: CC-57134-62966
[sandscrit letters] / Williams, Emmett., 1956 - 1983
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Identifier: CC-56856-62598
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