Paul McCarthy interviews Gene Youngblood (1977) on Close Radio
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Recorded live on July 7, 1977 for Close Radio on KPFK. 1 hr., 4 sec.
Youngblood, an electronic media arts scholar and author of Expanded Cinema (1970), discusses six new technologies that artists are using. He explores two emergent trends: the inevitable integration of technologies into a single, unified communication system, as well as the rise of a completely decentralized system of communication that has the potential to invert the structure and function of mass media.