Bio

From 1967 till 1969, he was assistant of Marshal McLuhan.
In 1969 he cofounded the Raindance Foundation

Raindance Foundation

Raindance Foundation was begun in 1969 by Frank Gillette, Michael Shamberg, Ira Schneider and Paul Ryan among others. Raindance was a self-described "countercultural think-tank" that embraced video as an alternative form of cultural communication....

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Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...

 depicted World War III as a "guerrilla information war," 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

Guerrilla Television

Guerrilla television is a term coined in 1971 by Michael Shamberg, one of the founders of the Raindance Foundation; the Raindance Foundation has been one of the counter-culture video collectives that in the 1960s and 1970s extended the role of the underground press to new communication...

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On December 18, 1995, Ryan was guest of Harold Channer

Harold Channer

Harold Hudson Channer is a talk-show host on public-access television cable TV network Manhattan Neighborhood Network, or MNN. He is the longest-running producer for the network, having done over 2,200 interviews over 40 years...

's talk show Conversations with harold Hudson Channer, on MNN

Manhattan Neighborhood Network

Manhattan Neighborhood Network is a non-profit organization that broadcasts programming on four public-access television cable TV stations in Manhattan, New York and provides a community media center that enables individuals and groups to produce shows for its network.-History:It has operated...

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In 2008 Archives of American Art

Archives of American Art

The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 16 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C...

created the collection Paul Ryan papers, 1943-2008.

Ryan's books

• Birth and Death and Cybernation (1973)
• Cybernetics of the Sacred (1974)
• Video mind, earth mind: art, communications, and ecology (1993)

External links

• Paul Ryan at Conversations with harold Hudson Channer (video)