Gene Youngblood

Gene Youngblood (1942) is a theorist of media arts and politics, and a 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.

Publications

Books

• Expanded Cinema, intro. R. Buckminster Fuller, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970, 432+[6] pp; London: Studio Vista, 1970, 432+[6] pp; repr., 50th anniv.ed., New York: Fordham University Press, 2020, xxxii+449+[12] pp.
  • Cine expandido, intro. Emilio Benini, Buenos Aires: Editorial De La Universidad Nacional De Tres De Febrero (EDUNTREF), 2012, 447 pp. [1] (Spanish)
  • Expanded cinema, eds. Pier Luigi Capucci and Simonetta Fadda, Bologna: CLUEB, 2013, xvi+388 pp. (Italian)

• World Game, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970.

• Metaphysical Structuralism: The Videotapes of Bill Viola, Santa Monica: Voyager Press, 1986.

Essays

• "The Videosphere", Radical Software 1:1, New York, Spring 1970, p 1. [2]

• "Video Cassette Image Publishing", Radical Software 1:1, New York, Spring 1970, p 3. [3]

• "The Mass Media: the Future of Desire", The CoEvolution Quarterly 16, Sausalito, CA, Winter 1977/1978, pp 6-17. [4]

• "The Future of Desire: The Art and Technology of Video in the 80's", c.1980. [5] [6]
  • "欲望の未来--八〇年代ヴィデオ技術と芸術", trans. Morioka Yoshitomo, 美術手帖, Jan 1982, pp 118-127. (Japanese)

• "A Medium Matures: Video and the Cinematic Experience", in The Second Link: Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties, ed. Lorne Falk, Banff, CA: Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, 1983, pp 9-13.

• "Art, Entertainment, Entropy", in Video Culture: A Critical Investigation, ed. John G. Hanhardt, Layton, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, and Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986, pp 225-231. Taken from Youngblood's Expanded Cinema, pp 59-65.

• "Virtual Space: The Electronic Environments of Mobile Image", International Synergy Journal 1:1, 1986. Written 1984.

• "Metadesign: Toward a Postmodernism of Reconstruction", Ars Electronica, Linz, 1986.

• "El aura del simulacro: el ordenador y la revolución cultural", Telos 9, Mar-May 1987. (Spanish)

• "The New Renaissance: Art, Science and Universal Machine", in The Computer Revolution and the Arts, May 1989, pp 8-20. [7]

• "Cinema and the Code", Computer Art in Context: SIGGRAPH 89 (exh.cat., supplement to Leonardo), eds. Marc Resch and Pamela Grant-Ryan, Pergamon Press, 1989, pp 27-30; repr. in Steina e Woody Vasulka: Video, Media e Nuove Immagini nell’Arte Contemporanea, ed. Marco Maria Gazzano, Rome: Fahrenheit 451, 1995, 48-58; repr. in Future Cinema: The Cinematographic Imagery after Film, eds. Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel, MIT Press, 2003, pp 156-161. Manuscript.
  • "Il cinema e l’immagine numerica", in Steina e Woody Vasulka: Video, Media e Nuove Immagini nell’Arte Contemporanea, ed. Marco Maria Gazzano, Rome: Fahrenheit 451, 1995, pp 45-59. (Italian)

• "Dream Machine, the Visual Computer", eds. Mitsuo Katsui and Toshifumi Kawahara, in Computer Graphics / Konpūta gurafikkusu, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989. Catalogue text. (English)/(Japanese)

• "Metadesign. Die neue Allianz und die Avantgarde", in Digitaler Schein. Ästhetik der elektronischen Medien, ed. Florian Rötzer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991, pp 305-322. (German)

• "Video by Steina and Woody Vasulka", in Steina & Woody Vasulka, Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1992.

• "Steina Vasulka: The Electronic Sublime", in Steina Vasulka: Four Video Installations, Santa Fe, NM: Center for Contemporary Arts, 1995.

• "Multiscreen Music: The Video Installations of Steina Vasulka", in Tónlist á fjölskjám: video innsetningar Steinu Vasulka, Reykjavík: Kjarvalsstaðir: Listasafn Reykjavíkur, 1996, pp 15-21. Manuscript (c.1991).
  • "Tónlist á fjölskjám: videoinnsetningar Steinu Vasulka", in Tónlist á fjölskjám: video innsetningar Steinu Vasulka, Reykjavík: Kjarvalsstaðir: Listasafn Reykjavíkur, 1996, pp 7-13. (Icelandic)

• "A Meditation on the Vasulka Archive", Daniel Langlois Foundation, 2000.
  • "Une méditation sur les archives Vasulka", Daniel Langlois Foundation, 2000. (French)

• "Secession from the Broadcast: The Internet and the Crisis of Social Control", Millennium Film Journal 58: "Since 78", Fall 2013, pp 174-189. Adapted from a lecture and seminar presented in Nov 2012 at the Biennale of the Moving Image at Universidad Nacional De Tres De Febrero in Buenos Aires. Video.

Interviews

• Gene Youngblood, "Interview with the Vasulkas" [c.1981], in Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990, eds. Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel, Karlsruhe: ZKM, and MIT Press, 2008, pp 442-455. Manuscript.

• Steina, Peter Weibel, Woody Vasulka, Gene Youngblood, "Santa Fe Talks", [12 Jul 1987], 73 pp, transcript.

• Erkki Huhtamo, "Metadesigning for the Future. A conversation with Gene Youngblood" [1990], NeMe, 2013. Conducted at the World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, 1-2 Oct 1990.

• "Orbits of Fortune with Steina and Gene Youngblood", in Steina: 1970-2000, Santa Fe, NM: SITE, 2008, pp 21-48.

Links

• https://vimeo.com/15435334
• Wikipedia