Author Archive for: ‘Gene Youngblood’

(First published in Expanded Cinema,  P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York 1970 ) For some years now the activity of the artist in our society has been trending more toward the function of the ecologist: one who deals with environmental relationships. Ecology is defined as the totality or pattern of relations between organisms and their environment. Thus the act of creation for the …

(First published in Expanded Cinema,  P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York 1970 ) The technology to produce such environments as Kroitor and Thompson describe has existed for some time; what has not been available is the necessary consciousness. Man has been so busy proving his right to live that he has not learned how to live. Thus we exist in an environment …

(First published in Expanded Cinema,  P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York 1970 ) Susan Sontag once defined the “two principal radical positions” in contemporary art as that which recommends the breaking down of distinctions between genres, and that which maintains or upholds those distinctions: on the one hand seeking a “vast behavioral magma or synaesthesis”; on the other hand pursuing “the intensification of …