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{{Short description|American media theorist (1942–2021)}} |
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⚫ | '''Gene Youngblood''' (May 30, 1942 – April 6, 2021)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/gene-youngblood-1942-2021-85439|title=Gene Youngblood (1942–2021)|work=[[Artforum]]|date=April 7, 2021|access-date=April 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gene-youngblood-expanded-cinema-media-theorist-dead-1234589034/|title=Gene Youngblood, Writer of Influential 'Expanded Cinema' Book, Has Died at 78|first=Alex|last=Greenberger|work=[[ARTnews]]|date=April 7, 2021|access-date=April 7, 2021}}</ref> was an American theorist of [[media theory|media arts]] and [[political theory|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 [[video art|art form]] and has been credited with helping to legitimate the fields of [[computer art]] and [[media arts]].<ref>Manovich, Lev. 2002. "Ten Key Texts on Digital Art: 1970–2000". Leonardo. 35 (5): 567–569.</ref><ref name="secession">[http://vimeo.com/15435334''Secession Trailer 1F''] Dir. Bryan Konefsky. Intvw. Steve Benedict, John Hanhardt, Chrissie Iles, and Steve Seid. ''Vimeo''. Web. July 29, 2010.</ref> He is also known for his pioneering work in the media democracy movement, a subject on which he taught, wrote, and lectured, beginning in 1967.<ref name="secession" /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1099678911|title=The Videosphere|first=Gene|last=Youngblood|work=[[Radical Software]]|date=1970|pages=17–18|oclc=1099678911}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5537628132|title=Secession from the Broadcast: the Internet and the Crisis of Social Control.|first=Gene|last=Youngblood|work=[[Millennium Film Journal]]|date=2013|pages=174–189|oclc=5537628132}}</ref> |
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[[File:Gene Youngblood, RIT NandE Vol12Num29 1980 Sep11 Complete.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Youngblood circa 1980]] |
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⚫ | 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]]'' (1962–1967), a 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]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voices.revealdigital.org/?a=q&r=1&results=1&auq=GENE+YOUNGBLOOD&e=-------en-20-BGJFHJH-1--txt-txIN-Gene+Youngblood--------------1|title=Los Angeles Free Press Articles by Gene Youngblood|first=Gene|last=Youngblood|work=Los Angeles Free Press|date=1967–1970}}</ref> the first and largest of the underground newspapers of that era. |
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⚫ | For ten years in the 1960s, Gene Youngblood was a journalist for newspapers, television, and radio in |
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==Academia== |
== Academia == |
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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]] |
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]]. |
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==Bibliography== |
== Bibliography == |
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* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.evidence.house/p-u-b-l-i-c-a-t-i-o-n-s/secession-from-the-broadcast-by-gene-youngblood ''Secession From the Broadcast'']. Jean-Jacques Martinod, ed. Los Cerrillos, NM: Evidence House, 2020. English + Spanish Print. |
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* Youngblood, Gene and R. Buckminster Fuller. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1140132853 ''Expanded Cinema''.], 2020. Fordham University 50th Anniversary edition. Print. |
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* Youngblood, G. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5537628132 "Secession from the Broadcast: the Internet and the Crisis of Social Control."] Millennium Film Journal. (2013): 174–189. Print. |
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* Youngblood, Gene, Pier L. Capucci, and Simonetta Fadda. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898730804 Expanded Cinema]. Bologna: CLUEB, 2013. Italian edition of ''Expanded Cinema''. Print. |
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* Vasulka, Steina. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262422903 ''Steina'']. Santa Fe, N.M: SITE Santa Fe, 2008. Intw. by Gene Youngblood. Print. |
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* Shaw, Jeffrey, Peter Weibel and Gene Youngblood. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51913230 "Cinema and the Code," ''Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film'']. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2003. Print. |
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* Godard, Jean-Luc, and David Sterritt. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475582350 ''Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews'']. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Print. |
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* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/321387912 "The Redemption of the Amateur," ''L.A. Weekly, Dec. 13–19, 1985, Vol. 8 No. 3'']. Los Angeles: Stern Pub, 1978. Internet resource. |
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* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13416442 "Virtual Space: The Electronic Environments of Mobile Image" ''Is Journal'']. Los Angeles, CA: International Synergy, 1986. Print. |
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* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5722271 "The Mass Media and the Future of Desire," ''Coevolution Quarterly: No. 16'']. Sausalito, CA: Point, 1977. Print. |
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* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/741435276 ''Expanded Cinema'']. Introd. by R.. Buckminster Fuller. New York: Dutton, 1970. Print. |
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* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1099678911 "The Videosphere," ''Radical Software, Vol. 1, No. 1'']. New York: Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, 1970. Internet resource. |
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* Youngblood, Gene. ''World Game''. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970. Print. |
* Youngblood, Gene. ''World Game''. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970. Print. |
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==References== |
== References == |
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==External links== |
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* [http://vimeo.com/15435334 Secession from the Broadcast: Gene Youngblood and the Communications Revolution] Excerpt from documentary in production. |
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* [https://vimeo.com/326622313/272b9ede49 Youngblood, Gene. ''Expanded Cinema 50'']. ©2020. video promo. |
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* [http://www.vasulka.org/Kitchen/PDF_ExpandedCinema/ExpandedCinema.html Youngblood, Gene. ''Expanded Cinema'']. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1970. Online PDF. |
* [http://www.vasulka.org/Kitchen/PDF_ExpandedCinema/ExpandedCinema.html Youngblood, Gene. ''Expanded Cinema'']. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1970. Online PDF. |
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* [http://www.criterion.com/films/209-lavventura ''L'avventura'' (1960) by Michelangelo Antonioni]. Gene Youngblood, audio commentary for Criterion Collection DVD. |
* [http://www.criterion.com/films/209-lavventura ''L'avventura'' (1960) by Michelangelo Antonioni]. Gene Youngblood, audio commentary for Criterion Collection DVD. |
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* [http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/828-l-avventura ''L'avventura'' Criterion Collection Essay] by Gene Youngblood. |
* [http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/828-l-avventura ''L'avventura'' Criterion Collection Essay] by Gene Youngblood. |
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*[http://losangelesfreepress.com/ Los Angeles Free Press] official website |
*[http://losangelesfreepress.com/ Los Angeles Free Press] official website |
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* [https://vimeo.com/88892421 George Lucas: Filmmaker] Youngblood's 1-hour 1971 interview with George Lucas for Los Angeles PBS station KCET-TV. |
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* [http://www.neme.org/texts/metadesigning-for-the-future Metadesigning for the Future] |
* [http://www.neme.org/texts/metadesigning-for-the-future Metadesigning for the Future] – Gene Youngblood talks to Erkki Huhtamo |
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Revision as of 01:03, 12 March 2023
Gene Youngblood | |
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Born | Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. | May 30, 1942
Died | April 6, 2021 Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. | (aged 78)
Occupation | Film and culture critic; professor of film and video history, media arts, and media democracy |
Spouses | Nancy Marilyn Youngblood
(m. 1970; div. 1980)Jane Youngblood (m. 2012) |
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geneyoungblood |
Gene Youngblood (May 30, 1942 – April 6, 2021)[1][2] was an American 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.[3][4] He is also known for his pioneering work in the media democracy movement, a subject on which he taught, wrote, and lectured, beginning in 1967.[4][5][6]
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 (1962–1967), a 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,[7] 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.
Bibliography
- Youngblood, Gene. Secession From the Broadcast. Jean-Jacques Martinod, ed. Los Cerrillos, NM: Evidence House, 2020. English + Spanish Print.
- Youngblood, Gene and R. Buckminster Fuller. Expanded Cinema., 2020. Fordham University 50th Anniversary edition. Print.
- Youngblood, G. "Secession from the Broadcast: the Internet and the Crisis of Social Control." Millennium Film Journal. (2013): 174–189. Print.
- Youngblood, Gene, Pier L. Capucci, and Simonetta Fadda. Expanded Cinema. Bologna: CLUEB, 2013. Italian edition of Expanded Cinema. Print.
- Youngblood, Gene. Cine Expandido. Buenos Aires: EDUNTREF, Editorial De La Universidad Nacional De Tres De Febrero, 2012. Spanish edition of Expanded Cinema. Print.
- Vasulka, Steina. Steina. Santa Fe, N.M: SITE Santa Fe, 2008. Intw. by Gene Youngblood. Print.
- Shaw, Jeffrey, Peter Weibel and Gene Youngblood. "Cinema and the Code," Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2003. Print.
- Godard, Jean-Luc, and David Sterritt. Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Print.
- Youngblood, Gene. Metaphysical Structuralism: The Videotapes of Bill Viola. Santa Monica: Voyager Press, 1986. Print.
- Youngblood, Gene. "The Redemption of the Amateur," L.A. Weekly, Dec. 13–19, 1985, Vol. 8 No. 3. Los Angeles: Stern Pub, 1978. Internet resource.
- Youngblood, Gene. "Virtual Space: The Electronic Environments of Mobile Image" Is Journal. Los Angeles, CA: International Synergy, 1986. Print.
- Youngblood, Gene. "The Mass Media and the Future of Desire," Coevolution Quarterly: No. 16. Sausalito, CA: Point, 1977. Print.
- Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema. Introd. by R.. Buckminster Fuller. New York: Dutton, 1970. Print.
- Youngblood, Gene. "The Videosphere," Radical Software, Vol. 1, No. 1. New York: Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, 1970. Internet resource.
- Youngblood, Gene. World Game. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970. Print.
References
- ^ "Gene Youngblood (1942–2021)". Artforum. April 7, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- ^ Greenberger, Alex (April 7, 2021). "Gene Youngblood, Writer of Influential 'Expanded Cinema' Book, Has Died at 78". ARTnews. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
- ^ Manovich, Lev. 2002. "Ten Key Texts on Digital Art: 1970–2000". Leonardo. 35 (5): 567–569.
- ^ a b Secession Trailer 1F Dir. Bryan Konefsky. Intvw. Steve Benedict, John Hanhardt, Chrissie Iles, and Steve Seid. Vimeo. Web. July 29, 2010.
- ^ Youngblood, Gene (1970). The Videosphere. pp. 17–18. OCLC 1099678911.
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ignored (help) - ^ Youngblood, Gene (2013). Secession from the Broadcast: the Internet and the Crisis of Social Control. pp. 174–189. OCLC 5537628132.
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ignored (help) - ^ Youngblood, Gene (1967–1970). "Los Angeles Free Press Articles by Gene Youngblood". Los Angeles Free Press.
External links
- Youngblood, Gene. Cine Expandido. [Buenos Aires] : EDUNTREF, Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, [2012, ©1970].
- Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema 50. ©2020. video promo.
- Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1970. Online PDF.
- L'avventura (1960) by Michelangelo Antonioni. Gene Youngblood, audio commentary for Criterion Collection DVD.
- L'avventura Criterion Collection Essay by Gene Youngblood.
- Los Angeles Free Press official website
- George Lucas: Filmmaker Youngblood's 1-hour 1971 interview with George Lucas for Los Angeles PBS station KCET-TV.
- Metadesigning for the Future – Gene Youngblood talks to Erkki Huhtamo