Epstein Secrets

ge, is a salon for the world's finest minds. On the facing page they discuss Marshall McLuhan, elitism and the future of the internet T o say that John Brockman is a literary agent is like saying that David Hockney is a photographer. For while it's true that Hockney has indeed made astonishingly creativ

ke saying that David Hockney is a photographer. For while it's true that Hockney has indeed made astonishingly creative use of photography, and Brockman is indeed a successful literary agent who represents an enviable stable of high- profile scientists and communicators, in both cases the descripti

unching him on the primrose path into the arts. He then got involved in the city's underground movie scene, becoming manager of the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, the home of underground cinema, in 1965, where his mandate was to produce a festival that expanded the form of cinema. He commissioned 30 perfor

FOREWORD: EVER BROCKMAN SINCE Mt 1960s, John BroclunanaTms pioneering activities have been diverse and multidirectional, marked by a fearlessness and fluidity of thought.

methods. Out of his experiences in the avant-garde art world of New York, BrockmanaTMs writings were quickly evolving. His first book, By The Late John Brockman (1969), was introduced in 1968 as part of a six-evening avant-garde program at the Poetry Center at the 92nd St Y in New York. Preceding and followi

rking with underground film- makers, and video artists, which was at this time a revolutionary art genre. In 1965 Mekas invited him to take over the Cinematheque and to initiate an Expanded Cinema Festival there. He invited many great New York artists working in all fields, including Nam June Paik, Andy Warho

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ith Harold "Doc" Edgerton at MIT and Anthony Oettinger of Harvard, they had been reading about "The Expanded Cinema Festival" I was producing at the Cinematheque, where the artists were reading Norbert Wiener and bringing his cybernetic ideas about the nonlinear relationship between input and output in the c

is a salon for the world's finest minds. On the facing page they discuss Marshall McLuhan, elitism and the future of the internet T . o say that John Brockman is a literary agent is like saying that David Hockney is a photographer. For while it's true that Hockney has indeed made astonishingly creativ

ke saying that David Hockney is a photographer. For while it's true that Hockney has indeed made astonishingly creative use of photography, and Brockman is indeed a successful literary agent who represents all enviable stable of high- profile scientists and communicators, in both cases the descript

unching him on the primrose path into the arts. He then got involved in the city's underground movie scene, becoming manager of the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, the home of underground cinema, in 1965. where his mandate was to produce a festival that expanded the form of cinema. He commissioned 30 perfor