Gene Youngblood (b. 1942) 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 (especially at the California Institute of Arts and Santa Fe University of Art and Design) and journalism (including newspapers, radio, and television in the Los Angeles area). He is also widely known as a pioneering voice in the Media Democracy movement. He has lectured at more than 400 colleges and universities throughout North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia, and his writing is published extensively around the world. He has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), The New Mexico Arts Division, and the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. He has taught at CalArts, The California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, UCLA and USC.;