Jud Yalkut

Died

2013-07-23

Birthplace

New York City, New York

Biography

Jud Yalkut was a pioneering intermedia artist and filmmaker. His remarkable body of moving image work, which spanned fifty years, ranged from early performance renderings and poetic filmic experiments to a series of groundbreaking hybrid video-film collaborations with Nam June Paik. Transcending and transforming media as he explored and merged film, video, expanded cinema, electronic manipulations, performance and installation, Yalkut created and collaborated on seminal intermedia projects with numerous artists, filmmakers, musicians and performers in the avant-garde and experimental scenes.