1970 marked the publication of Gene Youngblood’s now-formative Expanded Cinema – a text that was instrumental in legitimizing video and new media as viable and serious artistic forms. Youngblood went on to a career in both practice and theory, making a life’s work of championing the uses of video towards both social and political ends. This interview, conducted at SAIC, comes seven years after the release of Expanded Cinema and details its author’s primarily philosophic concerns with the medium of video. However, the dialogue is not relegated to esoteric ruminations on video divorced from actual use – as the entirety of the interview itself, in real time, is processed through a dual channel, effects-synthesizer, overlaying a surreal, monochromatic psychedelia atop the discussion.