Gene Youngblood
Secession from the Broadcast
Author(s) Gene Youngblood, Martín Baus (translation)
Format hardcover book
Year 2020
Language(s) English/Spanish
Description
Gene Youngblood's lecture, titled Secession from the Broadcast, is cartographic in nature, a lantern and a compass for those determined to extricate their activities from the grip of the mass media hydra. Breathing as if alive, Youngblood's words in this manifesto are a call to action, a call for rebellion of unprecedented scope and intensely enlightened. Fusing Youngblood's innate desires, this work presents a practice and research spanning most of his life. Secession from the Broadcast is essential reading for anyone envisioning new modalities of operation and cognition in the omnipresent media landscape in which we live.
Gene Youngblood is a world-renowned theorist of media systems and politics, and a devoted researcher of the history and theory of experimental cinema and video art. He is widely recognized as a pioneering voice in the media democracy movement and has been teaching on this subject for over thirty years. He is the author of Expanded Cinema (1970), the first work to consider video as a means of artistic expression, and has long been regarded as a primary reference for media artists.
Martín Baus is a Chilean filmmaker, musician, researcher, and programmer. He resides in Guayaquil, where he co-directs the cartographic research project Guayaquil Analógico and the film encounters Rialécticas. Member of the CEIS8 collective for experimentation with film formats and photochemical processes. He has also written for the film studies magazine laFuga.