Expanded Cinema Archive Main Menu Overview; "When we say expanded cinema we actually mean expanded consciousness." Gene Youngblood Perception & Consciousness Cybernetics Art and Technology In practice Other archvies

"The nervous system of mankind."

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This archive is intended to serve as a resource for further exploration of Gene Youngblood's 1970 book Expanded Cinema. The archive contextualizes Youngblood's work and demonstrates its relationship to mid-century artists, media theories, and projects. 

For an overview of the book's major arguments, click here.

To find out more about Gene Youngblood, including the artistic circles in which he worked, click here.

To find out more about the theories, conversations, and questions which Expanded Cinema engages with, click here.

To see examples of an artist grouped under the umbrella of "Expanded Cinema" by Youngblood, click here.

For an index of tags, pages, a bibliography of secondary materials, and a list of other relevant archives, click here. 



 

Contents of this path:

  1. Overview; "When we say expanded cinema we actually mean expanded consciousness."
  2. Gene Youngblood
  3. Perception & Consciousness
  4. Cybernetics
  5. Art and Technology
  6. In practice
  7. Other archvies