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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.
For activist, alternative, artist, community, experimental, guerrilla and tactical video and television

Projects, collectives, artists, activists[edit]

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

Platforms, projects, collections, resources[edit]

  • Guerrilla Television Network "provides an access point to thousands of videos from archival collections all over the world. These collections include the work of a diverse, varied community of artists, activists, and journalists made on videotape during the Guerrilla Television movement, roughly 1968-1980." Project led by Media Burn Archive and University of Chicago.
  • 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." [1] [2]
  • TV Free Europe, artist project, 2020-2021. "A Tele- Theatre Vision, an international collaboration encompassing the fields of performance and multimedia art, cultural heritage and art education. What happened to the hopes of freedom after the end of the Cold War? What does free Europe mean today? What can liberate you at all in times of a global pandemic? And what’s up with the borders?" With Pneuma Szöv. a.o.,
  • UKRAiNATV, "an experimental, collective and cross-sectoral project in the field of media culture. It deals with new relational strategies and new HYBRiD production forms in the field of hybrid PRESENCE. It’s an Internet TV station specialized in building live audiovisual bridges, a multi-channel streaming hub, recording studio and glocal network, all at once." Est. 2022. Affiliated with the Faculty of Intermedia of the Academy of Fine Arts Kraków.
  • Video Activism 2.0, research project on the attention strategies of video activism on the social web.
  • Video Digest Magazine, 2023. The online magazine "initiated by Videonale and IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute takes up impulses from historical video magazines (such as Infermental, Video Congress or Zapp Magazine) and uses a series of dialogically presented current works to examine the resistant potential of moving images in various communication channels from a contemporary perspective. The newly commissioned videos, performances and zines by Ji Su Kang-Gatto, Ayesha Hameed, Becket MWN, Rangwane and Leyla Yenirce (in collaboration with Mazlum Nergiz) make use of diverse languages and strategies of protest and mobilization (but also of apathy and resignation) and reflect a current video landscape shaped by on-demand smart TVs, YouTube/Youku, TikTok and Instagram." Booklet PDF.

Works[edit]

  • Spin, dir. Brian Springer, 1995, 57 min. Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities' contempt for their viewers. [4] [5]

Publications[edit]

  • Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France, 1970s-1980s, 2019, Log, PDF.

  • Deirdre Boyle, Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited, 1997, Log.

  • Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, Guerrilla Television, 1971.

  • Radical Software, 1970-1974.

2020s[edit]

2010s[edit]

  • Gülüm Şener, Nihan Gider Işıkman (eds.), Video Aktivizmde. Kavramlar Sorunlar Uygulamalar, Ankara: um:ag Yayınları, 2018, 230 pp. Publisher. [9] (Turkish)
  • Ege Berensel (ed.), Video'nun Eylemi, Istanbul: Alef Yayinevi, 2017, 238 pp. [10] (Turkish)
  • Journal of Film and Video 64(1-2): "Early Video History", ed. Elizabeth Coffman, Spring/Summer 2012. TOC. [11]
  • Nancy Cain, Video Days and What We Saw Through the Viewfinder, Palm Springs, CA: Event Horizon Press, 2011.

2000s[edit]

  • Carolyn Faber, Jakob Jakobsen, Guerilla Television and Activist Video: A View from the Last 35 Years, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Free University, 2007, 56 pp. Excerpt, [12]. Booklet with an interview with tv-pioneer Tom Weinberg - by Carolyn Faber, documents from the Media Burn Archive and a Guerilla Television Lexicon.
  • Sher Doruff, with Nancy Mauro-Flude (eds.), Connected! LiveArt, Amsterdam: Waag Society, Sep 2005, 160 pp. "The Connected! Programme spanned a two year period from January 2003 to January 2005. It officially concluded with a celebratory Birthday party for Art in the Theatrum Anatomicum of Waag Society, the local ‘home’-base of many Connected! projects. Although most of the people present at that event agreed with Federico Bonelli’s assessment “that art could have committed suicide in 1984” – the research and the show goes on."

1990s[edit]

  • 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.

1970s-1980s[edit]

  • 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.

Events[edit]

  • Video Digest, exhibition, Moltkerei Cologne, 25 November-10 December 2023. An exh. of newly commissioned videos, performances and zines, together with issues of the historical video magazines Infermental, Video Congress and Zapp Magazine. Curators: Miriam Hausner, Nele Kaczmarek, Tasja Langenbach. Concept: Tasja Langenbach, Linnea Semmerling. Booklet PDF.
  • People Make Television, exhibition, Raven Row, London, 28 January-26 March 2023. Curated by Lori E. Allen, William Fowler, Matthew Harle and Alex Sainsbury.
  • 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 September 2022. Developed by Nastassja Simensky and Anneke Kampman.

See also[edit]

Video art, Live video, Tactical media, Community radio, Community servers, Art and activism


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