Indeed, Gene was seminal to so many of us now populating these forums and “space.”  

While at CalArts I was his TA and remain deeply grateful for such a meaningful, resonant and engaging academic experience.  My hope is that we will continue to all do his insightful and “expansive” legacy justice.

My best,

Chris

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>> On Apr 8, 2021, at 5:27 AM, Simon Biggs <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> <mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>> wrote:
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>> Thanks for this Andreas
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>> I think we can safely say Gene shaped a generation (or two) of artists and thinkers in the moving image and media art space. His book was foundational to my practice. I read it in the 70s as I started to build and use computers to make art. Whilst there were some important technical documents that offered guidance to a young artist Gene’s book was THE key source for artistic and intellectual guidance.
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>> Gene will never be missed in a way because his legacy will live on in so many of us.
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>>> On 8 Apr 2021, at 19:11, Andreas Broeckmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Betreff: <nettime> RIP Gene Youngblood (1942-2021)
>>> Datum: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 07:21:34 +0200
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>>> < https://www.artforum.com/news/gene-youngblood-1942-2021-85439 >
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>>> April 07, 2021 at 4:14pm
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>>> GENE YOUNGBLOOD (1942-2021)
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>>> Visionary media arts theorist and critic Gene Youngblood,
>>> whose prescient 1970 book Expanded Cinema reshaped the
>>> fields of art and communications, predicted technological
>>> advances in filmmaking, and offered the first serious
>>> recognition of video and software-based works as cinematic
>>> art forms, died on April 6 in Santa Fe at the age of
>>> seventy-eight.
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>>> Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1942, Youngblood spent
>>> most of the 1960s in Los Angeles variously working as a
>>> reporter and film critic for the Los Angeles
>>> Herald-Examiner, as a reporter for KHJ-TV, and as an arts
>>> commentator for KPFK. In 1967, he was hired at $80 a week as
>>> associate editor at the Los Angeles Free Press, the first
>>> and most influential countercultural organ of its time.
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>>> He would remain at the publication until 1970, when he began
>>> co-teaching at California Institute of the Arts, with video
>>> artist Nam June Paik, one of the first college courses on
>>> the history of video. That summer, his "Call to Arms" was
>>> published in the inaugural issue of the crucial journal
>>> Radical Software. The piece manifested Youngblood's unending
>>> drive to democratize the media, announcing, "The media must
>>> be liberated, must be removed from private ownership and
>>> commercial sponsorship, must be placed in the service of all
>>> humanity."
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>>> A few months later, Youngblood published Expanded Cinema,
>>> much of which was based on his columns for the LA Free
>>> Press. Though the volume took as its title a term coined by
>>> Stan VanDerBeek, "it was Gene Youngblood who put it on the
>>> cover of a book, filled it with rocket fuel, and sent it
>>> buzzing through the late-1960s art world like a heat-seeking
>>> missile," wrote Caroline A. Jones in Artforum in 2020, on
>>> the occasion of the book's fiftieth anniversary. Expanded
>>> Cinema -- in which Youngblood limned concepts ranging from the
>>> Paleocybernetic Age to the videosphere to "new nostalgia,"
>>> all in context of what he termed the "global intermedia
>>> network" -- is considered a seminal work in the field of
>>> communications. "I thought maybe four hippies would read
>>> it," Youngblood wrote decades later. The book sold nearly
>>> fifty thousand copies in seven years.
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>>> Youngblood lectured on media arts theory at more than four
>>> hundred higher-learning institutions. In 1988, he founded
>>> the moving image arts department at the College of Santa Fe,
>>> where he remained a professor for years (the institution,
>>> which in 2010 was rechristened the Santa Fe University of
>>> Art and Design, closed in 2018). Though the rise of the
>>> internet hardly led to the utopian mediascape Youngblood had
>>> hoped for -- "The architecture of tyranny is in place," he
>>> wrote in 2013; "truth-telling and dissent are
>>> criminalized" -- he continued to advocate for a counterculture
>>> media characterized by radical democracy. "Anything less,"
>>> he wrote, "is a betrayal of us all."
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