Gene Youngblood

Bio:

Gene Youngblood was an American writer, scholar, and media theorist. Recognized as a seminal voice in both film studies and art history, Youngblood championed alternative cinema as a cultural and technological frontier. His landmark book Expanded Cinema (1970) examined how television, cybernetics, and emerging digital technologies were transforming filmmaking, laying a foundation for video and computer art to be regarded as an art form. Youngblood also spent a decade as a journalist in Los Angeles, serving as a reporter and film critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, KHJ-TV, and KPFK, and as associate editor and columnist for the Los Angeles Free Press. His work encompassed writing, teaching, and advocacy across media, art, and technology at a pivotal moment in the evolution of moving-image art.