Gene Youngblood Publishes the Seminal Expanded Cinema

Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema was an expansive survey of the use of computers and code to create film. The book was critical to the development of media and video art. According to Casey Reas in an interview with Le Random, the book was “an extraordinary primary document written at the moment and with direct contact and interviews with those [computer] artists.” The book in particular highlighted the contributions of John and James Whitney and Stan VanDerBeek.