Gene Youngblood (Author) Gene Youngblood is a well-known theorist of electronic media arts and a respected scholar in the history and theory of experimental film and video art. He has split his career between teaching and journalism and is also widely known as a pioneering voice in the Media Democracy movement.R. Buckminster Fuller (Introducer) R. Buckminster Fuller was an architect, designer, inventor, social theorist, and the author of more than thirty books, including the legendary Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.

• List of Illustrations ixIntroduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition xiiiIntroduction by R. Buckminster Fuller 15Inexorable Evolution and Human Ecology by R. Buckminster Fuller 37Preface 41Part One: The Audience and the Myth of Entertainment 45Radical Evolution and Future Shock in the Paleocybernetic Era 50The Intermedia Network as Nature 54Popular Culture and the Noosphere 57Art, Entertainment, Entropy 59Retrospective Man and the Human Condition 66The Artist as Design Scientist 70Part Two: Synaesthetic Cinema: The End of Drama 75Global Closed Circuit: The Earth as Software 78Synaesthetic Synthesis: Simultaneous Perception of Harmonic Opposites 81Syncretism and Metamorphosis: Montage as Collage 84Evocation and Exposition: Toward Oceanic Consciousness 92Synaesthetics as Kinaesthetics: The Way of All Experience 97Mythipoeiai: The End of Fiction 106Synaesthetics and Synergy 109Synaesthetic Cinema and Polymorphous Eroticism 112Synaesthetic Cinema and Extra-Objective Reality 122Image-Exchange and the Post-Mass Audience Age 128Part Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness 1352001: The New Nostalgia 139The Stargate Corridor 151The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson 157Part Four: Cybernetic Cinema and Computer Films 179The Technosphere: Man/Machine Symbiosis 180The Human Bio-Computer and His Electronic Brainchild 183Hardware and Software 185The Aesthetic Machine 189Cybernetic Cinema 194Computer Films 207Part Five: Television as a Creative Medium 257The Videosphere 260Cathode-Ray Tube Videotronics 265Synaesthetic Videotapes 281Videographic Cinema 317Closed-Circuit Television and Teledynamic Environments 337Part Six: Intermedia 345The Artist as Ecologist 346World Expositions and Nonordinary Reality 352Cerebrum: Intermedia and the Human Sensorium 359Intermedia Theatre 365Multiple-Projection Environments 387Part Seven: Holographic Cinema: A New World 399Wave-Front Reconstruction: Lensless Photography 400Dr. Alex Jacobson: Holography in Motion 404Limitations of Holographic Cinema 407Projecting Holographic Movies 411The Kinoform: Computer-Generated Holographic Movies 414Technoanarchy: The Open Empire 415Selected Bibliography 421Index 427

Gene Youngblood (Author) Gene Youngblood is a well-known theorist of electronic media arts and a respected scholar in the history and theory of experimental film and video art. He has split his career between teaching and journalism and is also widely known as a pioneering voice in the Media Democracy movement.R. Buckminster Fuller (Introducer) R. Buckminster Fuller was an architect, designer, inventor, social theorist, and the author of more than thirty books, including the legendary Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.

• List of Illustrations ixIntroduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition xiiiIntroduction by R. Buckminster Fuller 15Inexorable Evolution and Human Ecology by R. Buckminster Fuller 37Preface 41Part One: The Audience and the Myth of Entertainment 45Radical Evolution and Future Shock in the Paleocybernetic Era 50The Intermedia Network as Nature 54Popular Culture and the Noosphere 57Art, Entertainment, Entropy 59Retrospective Man and the Human Condition 66The Artist as Design Scientist 70Part Two: Synaesthetic Cinema: The End of Drama 75Global Closed Circuit: The Earth as Software 78Synaesthetic Synthesis: Simultaneous Perception of Harmonic Opposites 81Syncretism and Metamorphosis: Montage as Collage 84Evocation and Exposition: Toward Oceanic Consciousness 92Synaesthetics as Kinaesthetics: The Way of All Experience 97Mythipoeiai: The End of Fiction 106Synaesthetics and Synergy 109Synaesthetic Cinema and Polymorphous Eroticism 112Synaesthetic Cinema and Extra-Objective Reality 122Image-Exchange and the Post-Mass Audience Age 128Part Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness 1352001: The New Nostalgia 139The Stargate Corridor 151The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson 157Part Four: Cybernetic Cinema and Computer Films 179The Technosphere: Man/Machine Symbiosis 180The Human Bio-Computer and His Electronic Brainchild 183Hardware and Software 185The Aesthetic Machine 189Cybernetic Cinema 194Computer Films 207Part Five: Television as a Creative Medium 257The Videosphere 260Cathode-Ray Tube Videotronics 265Synaesthetic Videotapes 281Videographic Cinema 317Closed-Circuit Television and Teledynamic Environments 337Part Six: Intermedia 345The Artist as Ecologist 346World Expositions and Nonordinary Reality 352Cerebrum: Intermedia and the Human Sensorium 359Intermedia Theatre 365Multiple-Projection Environments 387Part Seven: Holographic Cinema: A New World 399Wave-Front Reconstruction: Lensless Photography 400Dr. Alex Jacobson: Holography in Motion 404Limitations of Holographic Cinema 407Projecting Holographic Movies 411The Kinoform: Computer-Generated Holographic Movies 414Technoanarchy: The Open Empire 415Selected Bibliography 421Index 427