Mr. Ryan's video studies of water have shown in over a dozen countries, including Korea,Turkey, and Ecuador. He exhibited his experimental Triadic Tapes in 'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art, at MoMA in New York City (1984). A McLuhan Fellow, he authored seminal texts on video, published in Radical Software (1970-74). Mr. Ryan also authored Cybernetics of the Sacred (1974), Video Mind, Earth Mind (1992) and The Three Person Solution (2009). The Smithsonian Institution is archiving his writings, including material on his proposed Television Ecochannel Design, his Earthscore Notation and his Hall of Risk Program exhibited in the 2002 Venice Biennale. At dOCUMENTA (13), Mr. Ryan exhibited Threeing, a formal way for three or more people to collaborate (2012). As a boy, Paul Ryan lived by a lake and sometimes fought with his three brothers. John Drew: