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Screen Cultures 1970s-1990s in Basel and Beyond: Video and Net Initiatives, eds. Stefanie Bräuer and Lucie Kolb, Marburg: Schüren, 2025, 167 pp.

In this book, the authors explore a media vernacular shaped by bottom-up initiatives that challenged mass media from the late 1970s through the 1990s, with an outlook to contemporary and future practices of participatory production and sharing in video and net art. Embracing a translocal perspective, the book centers on Basel, Switzerland, while simultaneously looking beyond this specific location. Focusing on video and net art, as well as activism, the book crosses media boundaries to investigate the field of screen cultures. The authors understand screen cultures as the intersection of video and net art with activist practices: A range of approaches aimed at creating spaces for exchange, embedded in the technologies of capturing, editing, and disseminating analog and digital video, as well as in communication infrastructures such as bulletin board systems and the early internet.

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