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Author: Jeremy Speed Schwartz

Articles Visual Music 

Computerama

December 13, 2015 Jeremy Speed Schwartz 0 Comment Dr. William Moritz

With improvements in computers (and improved access to them), several artists have made imaginative new films. Michael Scroggins, who had

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Articles Visual Music 

Come Closer

December 13, 2015February 4, 2017 Jeremy Speed Schwartz 0 Comment abstract animation, artists, Dr. William Moritz, hy hirsch

Hy Hirsh was a gourmet cook and the kind of tinkerer who could fix anything. He loved music of all

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Color Music: Integral Cinema

December 12, 2015 Jeremy Speed Schwartz 0 Comment abstract animation, Dr. William Moritz, Oskar Fischinger

Integral Cinema, as Germaine Dulac called it — and none of the other terms for this genre (“Avant-Garde Film”, “Experimental

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Color Harmony/Color Music

December 12, 2015 Jeremy Speed Schwartz 0 Comment Dr. William Moritz

The question of a “color harmony” very quickly becomes a question of a “color music”, because only in the specialized

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iotaCommunity

July 30, 2014September 24, 2016 Jeremy Speed Schwartz

Although paper, film and video resources are important to our mission, people are undoubtedly the most tremendously valuable resource that

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Beyond ‘Abstract’ Criticism

August 11, 2013 Jeremy Speed Schwartz 0 Comment Dr. William Moritz

Five years ago in the pages of this journal I outlined the special need in the experimental film field for

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Articles Visual Music 

In the Abstract

August 11, 2013 Jeremy Speed Schwartz 0 Comment Absolut Panushka, Dr. William Moritz, Ed Emshwiller, Jules Engel, Larry Cuba, Robert Breer

Abstract animation flourished in the 1970s. Artist Robert Breer began making animated films in Paris in the 1950s as an extension of

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Absolute Animation

April 14, 2013 Jeremy Speed Schwartz 0 Comment Dr. William Moritz, Walter Ruttmann

The first surviving experimental animation film is the work of Walter Ruttmann, who had studied both music and painting at

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Articles Visual Music 

Cameraless Film

September 1, 2005 Jeremy Speed Schwartz 0 Comment abstract animation, animation, article, artist, Dr. William Moritz, experimental animation, filmmaker, history, len lye, synesthesia, visual music

Moritz, William Len Lye, deeply impressed by the aboriginal ceremonial art of Australia and his native New Zealand, regarded moving

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