Expanded Cinema - (Meaning Systems) by Gene Youngblood

The book "Expanded Cinema" by Gene Youngblood is a groundbreaking work that explores the intersection of media, art, and technology in the 1960s.

This influential book has been reissued for its 50th anniversary with a new introduction by the author, offering conceptual tools for understanding the sociocultural and sociopolitical realities of our present world. Youngblood's insider account of 1960s counterculture and the birth of cybernetics remains a mainstay reference in today's hypermediated digital world, providing an unparalleled historical documentation of a chapter of countercultural history that is still not fully represented in the art historical record. The book features interviews with artists and technologists of the period, such as Nam June Paik, Jordan Belson, Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Stan VanDerBeek, Les Levine, and Frank Gillette, offering a unique eyewitness account of burgeoning experimental film and the birth of video art in the late 1960s. With its vast scope and prescient formulations, "Expanded Cinema" is an inspiring Introduction by the celebrated polymath and designer R.

Buckminster Fuller, who places Youngblood's radical observations in comprehensive perspective.

The book will also inspire the current generation of artists working in ever-newer expansions of the cinematic environment and will prove invaluable to all who are concerned with the technologies that are reshaping the nature of human communication. Don't miss out on this opportunity to delve into the fascinating world of media arts and technology, and discover the visionary ideas that have shaped our understanding of the intersections between art, science, and society.

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