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on rather understates the reality. More accurate ways of describing Brockman would he to say that he is a "cultural impresario" or, as his friend Stewart Brand puts it, an "intellectual enzyme". The first thing you notice about Brockman, though, is the interesting way he bridges CP Snow's "Two Cultures"
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
.org, an important platform for the exchange of knowledge between different fields that aims ficeto arrive at the edge of the worldaTMs knowledge.a Stewart Brand has called Brockman an aceintellectual enzyme . . . an adroit enabler of otherwise impossible things.fi As Brockman himself puts it, ace' look to .
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
on rather understates the reality. More accurate ways of describing Brockman would be to say that he is a "cultural impresario" or, as his friend Stewart Brand puts it, an "intellectual enzyme". The first thing you notice about Brockman, though, is the interesting way he bridges CP Snow's "IWo Cultures"
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
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