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Expanded Cinema ArchiveMain Menu"The nervous system of mankind."Overview; "When we say expanded cinema we actually mean expanded consciousness."Perception & ConsciousnessCyberneticsArt and TechnologyIn practiceOther archviesKatie Brunera16b35f5d10495257fc6a06bbaafa4e3ac3275a5
Gene Youngblood
12016-10-30T17:27:33-07:00Katie Brunera16b35f5d10495257fc6a06bbaafa4e3ac3275a5118978plain2016-12-15T10:24:24-08:00Katie Brunera16b35f5d10495257fc6a06bbaafa4e3ac3275a5Youngblood 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.
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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