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* ''[[Radical Software]]'', 11 issues, eds. Beryl Korot, Phyllis Segura, and Ira Schneider, New York: Raindance Corporation (later Raindance Foundation with Gordon and Breach Publishers), 1970-1974.
 
* ''[[Radical Software]]'', 11 issues, eds. Beryl Korot, Phyllis Segura, and Ira Schneider, New York: Raindance Corporation (later Raindance Foundation with Gordon and Breach Publishers), 1970-1974.
  
* Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, ''Guerrilla Television'', New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt Rinehart and Winstin, 1971, 108 pp. [http://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/1964 TOC]. [https://www.radicalsoftware.org/volume1nr5/pdf/VOLUME1NR5_0120.pdf Ad]. [http://blogs.evergreen.edu/publicaccesstelevision/2017/10/02/guerilla-television-by-michael-shamberg/ Review]. [http://letsremake.info/PDFs/guide_2nd_edition.pdf#page=11] [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5a71f6669ff37c3f7b09f921]
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* Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, ''Guerrilla Television'', New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt Rinehart and Winstin, 1971, 108 pp. [http://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/1964 TOC]. [https://www.radicalsoftware.org/volume1nr5/pdf/VOLUME1NR5_0120.pdf Ad]. [http://blogs.evergreen.edu/publicaccesstelevision/2017/10/02/guerilla-television-by-michael-shamberg/ Review]. [http://letsremake.info/PDFs/guide_2nd_edition.pdf#page=11] [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5a71f6669ff37c3f7b09f921] [https://archive.org/details/ETC3143/]
  
 
* Martha Gever, [[Media:Gever_Martha_1983_Video_Politics_Early_Feminist_Projects.pdf|"Video Politics: Early Feminist Projects"]], ''Afterimage'', Summer 1983, pp 25-27. [https://www.eai.org/supporting-documents/303/w.1236.0]
 
* Martha Gever, [[Media:Gever_Martha_1983_Video_Politics_Early_Feminist_Projects.pdf|"Video Politics: Early Feminist Projects"]], ''Afterimage'', Summer 1983, pp 25-27. [https://www.eai.org/supporting-documents/303/w.1236.0]
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* Carolyn Faber, Jakob Jakobsen, ''Guerilla Television and Activist Video: A View from the Last 35 Years'', Copenhagen: Copenhagen Free University, 2007, 56 pp. [http://www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk/weinberg.html Excerpt], [http://www.halfletterpress.com/guerrilla-television-and-activist-video-a-view-from-the-last-35-years/]. Booklet with an interview with tv-pioneer Tom Weinberg - by Carolyn Faber, documents from the Media Burn Archive and a Guerilla Television Lexicon.
 
* Carolyn Faber, Jakob Jakobsen, ''Guerilla Television and Activist Video: A View from the Last 35 Years'', Copenhagen: Copenhagen Free University, 2007, 56 pp. [http://www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk/weinberg.html Excerpt], [http://www.halfletterpress.com/guerrilla-television-and-activist-video-a-view-from-the-last-35-years/]. Booklet with an interview with tv-pioneer Tom Weinberg - by Carolyn Faber, documents from the Media Burn Archive and a Guerilla Television Lexicon.
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* Jesse Drew, [https://monoskop.org/images/b/be/Stimson_Blake_Sholette_Gregory_eds_Collectivism_after_Modernism_The_Art_of_Social_Imagination_after_1945_2007.pdf#page=113 "The Collective Camcorder in Art and Activism"], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=232 Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945]'', eds. Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, pp 95-113.
  
 
* Nancy Cain, ''Video Days and What We Saw Through the Viewfinder'', Palm Springs, CA: Event Horizon Press, 2011.
 
* Nancy Cain, ''Video Days and What We Saw Through the Viewfinder'', Palm Springs, CA: Event Horizon Press, 2011.

Revision as of 09:06, 15 December 2022

Eleanor Boyer (left) and Karen Peugh. (Source)
Delphine Seyrig, Maria Schneider and Carole Roussopoulos during the shooting of Sois belle et tais-toi, 1975.
Wendy Appel and Rita Ogden filming with Sony Portapak, c.1972. Photo: Paul Goldsmith. Photo courtesy of TVTV.

Video activism, guerrilla television, alternative television, video documentary, community television.

Projects, collectives, activists

No pages meet these criteria.

also: Whispered Media, Witness, Appalshop in the USA; Chiapas Media Project in Mexico; Drishti Media Collective, Indian People's Media Collective Kritika in India; Undercurrents, I-contact video network in the UK; Labor News Production in South Korea; INSIST in Indonesia; Karahaber and Videa in Turkey

Events

  • Testcard, programme of artists moving-image that takes the format of a 24-hour TV variety show which included a combination of live and pre-recorded material to draw on the history of radical and public broadcasting, open publishing and transmission, 24-25 Sep 2022. Developed by Nastassja Simensky and Anneke Kampman.

Collections, digital platforms

  • Media Burn Archive, Chicago. The website features a digital archive of videos from the 1950s onward. "The collection forms an unmatched portrait of 20th and 21st century American life, created by individuals with a deeply rooted commitment to increasing our understanding of other human beings and communities." [2] [3]

Resources

  • Video Activism 2.0, research project on the attention strategies of video activism on the social web.

Literature

Radical Software, 1970-1974.
Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, Guerrilla Television, 1971.
Deidre Boyle, Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited, 1997, Log.
Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France, 1970s-1980s, 2019, Log, PDF.
  • Radical Software, 11 issues, eds. Beryl Korot, Phyllis Segura, and Ira Schneider, New York: Raindance Corporation (later Raindance Foundation with Gordon and Breach Publishers), 1970-1974.
  • Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, Guerrilla Television, New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt Rinehart and Winstin, 1971, 108 pp. TOC. Ad. Review. [5] [6] [7]
  • Tjebbe van Tijen, "A Context for Collecting the New Media", in Next 5 Minutes Video Catalogue: Catalogue of Videotapes Shown During the Festival on Tactical Television held in Paradiso Amsterdam, 8-10 January 1993, eds. Bas Raijmakers and Tjebbe van Tijen, Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History, 1993.
  • Carolyn Faber, Jakob Jakobsen, Guerilla Television and Activist Video: A View from the Last 35 Years, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Free University, 2007, 56 pp. Excerpt, [9]. Booklet with an interview with tv-pioneer Tom Weinberg - by Carolyn Faber, documents from the Media Burn Archive and a Guerilla Television Lexicon.
  • Nancy Cain, Video Days and What We Saw Through the Viewfinder, Palm Springs, CA: Event Horizon Press, 2011.
  • Journal of Film and Video 64(1-2): "Early Video History", ed. Elizabeth Coffman, Spring/Summer 2012. TOC. [10]
  • Ege Berensel (ed.), Video'nun Eylemi, Istanbul: Alef Yayinevi, 2017, 238 pp. [11] (Turkish)
  • Gülüm Şener, Nihan Gider Işıkman (eds.), Video Aktivizmde. Kavramlar Sorunlar Uygulamalar, Ankara: um:ag Yayınları, 2018, 230 pp. Publisher. [12] (Turkish)
  • Francesco Spampinato, Art vs. TV: A Brief History of Contemporary Artists' Responses to Television, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 368 pp. Publisher.

See also