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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=7 April 2021|access-date=7 April 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=7 April 2021|access-date=7 April 2021}}</ref> was a 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. 29 July 2010.</ref> 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.<ref name="secession"> </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/radical-software/oclc/1099678911&referer=brief_results|title=The Videosphere|first=Gene|last=Youngblood|work=[[Radical Software]]|date=1970|pages=17-18.}}</ref>
'''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 a 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 has taught, written, and lectured since 1967.<ref name="secession"> </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/radical-software/oclc/1099678911&referer=brief_results|title=The Videosphere|first=Gene|last=Youngblood|work=[[Radical Software]]|date=1970|pages=17–18.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/secession-from-the-broadcast-the-internet-and-the-crisis-of-social-control/oclc/5537628132&referer=brief_results|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.}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/secession-from-the-broadcast-the-internet-and-the-crisis-of-social-control/oclc/5537628132&referer=brief_results|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.}}</ref>


==Journalism==
==Journalism==


For ten years in the 1960s, Gene Youngblood was a journalist for newspapers, television, and radio in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]. He was a reporter and film critic for the ''[[Los Angeles Herald-Examiner]]'' (1962-1967), 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.
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), 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.


==Academia==
==Academia==
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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.
* 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.
* Youngblood, Gene and R. Buckminster Fuller. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/expanded-cinema/oclc/1140132853?referer=di&ht=edition ''Expanded Cinema''.], 2020. Fordham University 50th Anniversary edition. Print.
* Youngblood, Gene and R. Buckminster Fuller. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/expanded-cinema/oclc/1140132853?referer=di&ht=edition ''Expanded Cinema''.], 2020. Fordham University 50th Anniversary edition. Print.
* Youngblood, G. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/secession-from-the-broadcast-the-internet-and-the-crisis-of-social-control/oclc/5537628132&referer=brief_results "Secession from the Broadcast: the Internet and the Crisis of Social Control."] Millennium Film Journal. (2013): 174-189. Print.
* Youngblood, G. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/secession-from-the-broadcast-the-internet-and-the-crisis-of-social-control/oclc/5537628132&referer=brief_results "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. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/expanded-cinema/oclc/898730804?referer=di&ht=edition Expanded Cinema]. Bologna: CLUEB, 2013. Italian edition of ''Expanded Cinema''. Print.
* Youngblood, Gene, Pier L. Capucci, and Simonetta Fadda. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/expanded-cinema/oclc/898730804?referer=di&ht=edition Expanded Cinema]. Bologna: CLUEB, 2013. Italian edition of ''Expanded Cinema''. Print.
* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/cine-expandido/oclc/929659517&referer=brief_results''Cine Expandido'']. Buenos Aires: EDUNTREF, Editorial De La Universidad Nacional De Tres De Febrero, 2012. Spanish edition of ''Expanded Cinema''. Print.
* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/cine-expandido/oclc/929659517&referer=brief_results''Cine Expandido'']. Buenos Aires: EDUNTREF, Editorial De La Universidad Nacional De Tres De Febrero, 2012. Spanish edition of ''Expanded Cinema''. Print.
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* Godard, Jean-Luc, and David Sterritt. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/jean-luc-godard-interviews/oclc/475582350&referer=brief_results ''Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews'']. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Print.
* Godard, Jean-Luc, and David Sterritt. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/jean-luc-godard-interviews/oclc/475582350&referer=brief_results ''Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews'']. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Print.
* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/metaphysical-structuralism-the-videotapes-of-bill-viola/oclc/33357962&referer=brief_results ''Metaphysical Structuralism: The Videotapes of Bill Viola'']. Santa Monica: Voyager Press, 1986. Print.
* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/metaphysical-structuralism-the-videotapes-of-bill-viola/oclc/33357962&referer=brief_results ''Metaphysical Structuralism: The Videotapes of Bill Viola'']. Santa Monica: Voyager Press, 1986. Print.
* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/la-weekly/oclc/321387912&referer=brief_results "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. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/la-weekly/oclc/321387912&referer=brief_results "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. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/is-journal/oclc/13416442&referer=brief_results "Virtual Space: The Electronic Environments of Mobile Image" ''Is Journal'']. Los Angeles, CA: International Synergy, 1986. Print.
* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/is-journal/oclc/13416442&referer=brief_results "Virtual Space: The Electronic Environments of Mobile Image" ''Is Journal'']. Los Angeles, CA: International Synergy, 1986. Print.
* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/coevolution-quarterly/oclc/5722271&referer=brief_results "The Mass Media and the Future of Desire," ''Coevolution Quarterly: No. 16'']. Sausalito, CA: Point, 1977. Print.
* Youngblood, Gene. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/coevolution-quarterly/oclc/5722271&referer=brief_results "The Mass Media and the Future of Desire," ''Coevolution Quarterly: No. 16'']. Sausalito, CA: Point, 1977. Print.
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*[http://losangelesfreepress.com/ Los Angeles Free Press] official website
*[http://losangelesfreepress.com/ Los Angeles Free Press] official website
* [https://vimeo.com/88892421 George Lucas: Filmmaker] Youngblood's 1-hour 1971 interview with George Lucas for Los Angeles PBS station KCET-TV.
* [https://vimeo.com/88892421 George Lucas: Filmmaker] Youngblood's 1-hour 1971 interview with George Lucas for Los Angeles PBS station KCET-TV.
* [http://www.neme.org/texts/metadesigning-for-the-future Metadesigning for the Future] - Gene Youngblood talks to Erkki Huhtamo
* [http://www.neme.org/texts/metadesigning-for-the-future Metadesigning for the Future] – Gene Youngblood talks to Erkki Huhtamo


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Gene Youngblood
Born(1942-05-30)May 30, 1942
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
DiedApril 6, 2021(2021-04-06) (aged 78)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
OccupationFilm and culture critic; professor of film and video history, media arts, and media democracy
Spouses
Nancy Marilyn Youngblood
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(m. 1970; div. 1980)​
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(m. 2012)​
RelativesWalter Denson Youngblood (father)
Marie Jean Youngblood (mother)
Kenneth L. Youngblood (brother)

Gene Youngblood (May 30, 1942 – April 6, 2021)[1] [2] 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.[3][4] 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.[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), 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

References

  1. ^ "Gene Youngblood (1942–2021)". Artforum. April 7, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
  2. ^ Greenberger, Alex (April 7, 2021). "Gene Youngblood, Writer of Influential 'Expanded Cinema' Book, Has Died at 78". ARTnews. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
  3. ^ Manovich, Lev. 2002. "Ten Key Texts on Digital Art: 1970–2000". Leonardo. 35 (5): 567–569.
  4. ^ a b Secession Trailer 1F Dir. Bryan Konefsky. Intvw. Steve Benedict, John Hanhardt, Chrissie Iles, and Steve Seid. Vimeo. Web. July 29, 2010.
  5. ^ Youngblood, Gene (1970). "The Videosphere". Radical Software. pp. 17–18.
  6. ^ Youngblood, Gene (2013). "Secession from the Broadcast: the Internet and the Crisis of Social Control". Millennium Film Journal. pp. 174–189.
  7. ^ Youngblood, Gene (1967–1970). "Los Angeles Free Press Articles by Gene Youngblood". Los Angeles Free Press.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)

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