Yud Yalkut studied in the United States at the High School of Music and Art and City College in New York, and then in Canada, at Magill University in Montreal. In 1961, he began making films and videos. In his works, Jud Yalkut juxtaposes images to create a very close relationship between film and video.
In his work as an experimental film maker, Jud Yalkut collaborated with Nam June Paik in producing the first video films which marked the birth of what Paik called "electronic art". Between 1966 and 1972, Jud Yalkut and Paik made Beatles Electroniques (1966-1969), Cinema Metaphysique 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (1966-1972), Electronic Fables (1971), Video Synthetiser and Cello collectible bandes (1965-1971) and Video-film Concert (1966-1972 and 1992), among others. These experimental films and videos constituted the beginning of the history of video as an artistic medium and new electronic language.
Jud Yalkut also worked, in collaboration with Nam June Paik, Shigeko Kubota and Douglas Davis, on Suite 212, a series of 30 programmes broadcast in 1975 by the WNET / TV Thirteen Television Laboratory in New York.
In 1967, he began taking part in experimental film and video festivals organized in North America, Europe and Japan. In the United States, he participated notably in the First Annual Berkeley Experimental Film Festival (1968), the Woodstock Festival (1969), the Columbus Arts Festival (1991) and the Three Rivers Festival at Pittsburg (1993). In Canada: the International Festival du Film 16mm in Montreal (1971). In Europe: the 4th International Experimental Film Competition in Belgium (1968), the Mannheim Film Festival in Germany (1970) and the Stockholm International Video Art Festival in Sweden (1985). In Japan: the 2nd and 3rd Art Film Festivals in Tokyo (1967 and 1968). In 1970, he took part in the American Film Encounter at Sorrento (Italy), in a selection drawn up by Martin Scorsese.
Jud Yalkut's work has been shown in the United States, in New York at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, the Millennium Film Workshop, the Kitchen Center for Music, Video and Dance, the Museum of Modern Art, in Syracuse at the Everson Museum of Art and in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art; in Europe, in Rome at the Palazzo delle Exposizioni, in Paris at the Centre Georges Pompidou; in Latin America, in Caracas (Venezuela) at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo.
Jud Yalkut received a special prize at Berkeley, when he took part in the Festival of Experimental Film, for his work Kusama's Self Obliteration made in collaboration with the artist Kusama Yayoi in 1968. The first retrospective of his work was held in 1972 by the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse.
From 1972 to 1973, he was invited by the WNET / TV Television Laboratory to participate as a video artist. He was artist in residence at Sinclair Community College (Dayton) from 1978 to 1979, and at the University of Dayton from 1980 to 1981.
Beginning in 1966, Jud Yalkut has published articles and the arts and media in American reviews such as Arts Magazine, Ouest Side News, Antenna Arts Magazine, New York Free Press, Dialogue and Film Quarterly, and in Japanese reviews such as Bijitsu and Techo Art Monthly.
From 1968 to 1973, Jud Yalkut taught cinema and video in New York (City University, Millennium Film Workshop, School of Visual Arts, New York University).
Jud Yalkut is currently a professor in the art department (video and cinema section) of Wright State University in Dayton. He also teaches at Sinclair Community College (Dayton) and Xavier University (Cincinnati). He is the director of the ArtistÕs Committee of Miami Valley Cooperative Gallery in Dayton and the Video-Film Collective, an organization specialized in the development of the multimedia system, software and videos. He is preparing a book, Electronic Zen, in which he examines the history of video as a creative artistic medium.

Nayara Gil Condé