Paul Ryan (video artist)
Paul Louis Ryan (born 1943) is a video artist, writer, and theoretician.[1][2]
Bio
From 1967 till 1969, he was assistant of Marshal McLuhan.[3] In 1969 he cofounded the Raindance Foundation.[4] While in 1970 Marshall McLuhan depicted World War III as a "guerrilla information war,"[5][6] in the same year Ryan wrote for Radical Software, the foundation journal, the article Cybernetic guerrilla warfare, which inspired the following year the coining of the term guerrilla television.[7][8][9][10]
On December 18, 1995, Ryan was guest of Harold Channer's talk show Conversations with harold Hudson Channer, on MNN.[2]
In 2008 Archives of American Art created the collection Paul Ryan papers, 1943-2008.[1]
Ryan's books
- Birth and Death and Cybernation (1973)
- Cybernetics of the Sacred (1974)
- Video mind, earth mind: art, communications, and ecology (1993)
Notes
References
- Greenwald, Dara (2007) The Process is in the Streets: Challenging Media America in MacPhee, Josh and Reuland, Erik (2007) Realizing the impossible: art against authority
- Greenwald, Dara (2007) The Grassroots Video Pioneers in The Brooklyn Rail, May 2007
- Marshall McLuhan (1970) Culture is our business
- Ryan, Paul (1970) Cybernetic guerrilla warfare in Radical Software, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1971
- Shamberg, Michael, Raindance Corporation (1971) Guerrilla television Chapter "process notes"
- Strangelove, Michael (2005) The empire of mind: digital piracy and the anti-capitalist movement
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