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Gene Youngblood

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Youngblood was a journalist and cultural critic, who was called (by Bruce Jenkins) "the medium's Thomas Jefferson; the man who wrote our Declaration of Independence, who marked out a a vision of media and democracy that remains an invaluable guide to media culture and a document of extraordinary vision and prophecy," for his authorship of Expanded Cinema.

Other writing about/by Youngblood:

"Secession from the Broadcast: The Internet and the Crisis of Social Control" Lecture given at the Moving Image Bienal in Buenos Aires, November 2012.

Conversation with Gene Yougblood and Erriki Huhtamo at the World Wide Video Festival in The Hague, The Netherlands, October 1990.

Los Angeles Free Press archive, which houses much of Youngblood's journalistic writing.

Media and the 1960s Counter-Culture

Expanded Cinema was also a product of the social and technical upheavals of the 1960s. For more contextual information on these dynamics, see:

Belton, John. Widescreen Cinema. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Colomina, Beatriz. “Enclosed by Images: The Eamses’ Multimedia Architecture.” Grey Room 2 (2001): 5-29.
Turner, Fred. The Democratic Surround: Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Uroskie, Andrew V. Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

"Expanded Cinema was based on material, historical, and political relationships and not on a specific apparatus or type of media technology." Sutton, The Experience Machine, 8.

Discussion of Youngblood as a figure and his legacy in the world of art and technology:

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Secession From The Broadcast: Gene Youngblood and the Communications Revolution (trailer for an in-progress documentary)