Gene Youngblood
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Gene Youngblood (May 30, 1942 – April 6, 2021) was a theorist of media arts and politics, and a respected scholar in the history and theory of alternative cinemas. His best known book, Expanded Cinema, was the first to consider video as an art form and has been credited with helping to legitimate the fields of computer art and media arts. He is also known for his pioneering work in the media democracy movement, a subject on which he has taught, written, and lectured since 1967.
Journalism
For ten years in the 1960s, Gene Youngblood was a journalist for newspapers, television, and radio in Los Angeles. He was a reporter and film critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, reporter for KHJ-TV, arts commentator for KPFK, and from 1967 to 1970 he was associate editor and columnist for the Los Angeles Free Press, the first and largest of the underground newspapers of that era.
Academia
Youngblood has held several academic posts in his career, but is best known for his time with the Film/Video School at California Institute of the Arts and for helping to found the Moving Image Arts department at the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design).
Pages linking into Gene Youngblood and 'Expanded Cinema' as of April 2021
Adult animation in the United States, Back and Forth (film), Blue Movie, Bradley Eros, Chris Welsby, Cybernetic art, Dominique Moulon, Experimental animation, Experimental film, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Frank Popper, Gate Hill Cooperative, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Guillaume Cailleau, Hamilton Underground Film Festival, Herbert Blau, Intermedia, Jackie Hatfield, Jennifer Steinkamp, Jim Newman (television producer), John Whitney (animator), Jordan Belson, Larry Cuba, L'Avventura, Les Levine, List of California Institute of the Arts people, List of critical theorists, Live Arts Week, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Margot Lovejoy, Netmage, New media art, Peter Weibel, Phil Morton, Robert Todd (filmmaker), Robert Whitman, Roman Kroitor, Salamander Syncope, Screen City Biennial, Smeller (installation), Stanley Kubrick, Systems art, The Rubber Stamp Film, Travis Wilkerson, Ture Sjölander, USCO, Valie Export, Video art, Videoex, Virtual art
