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[[Image:Radical Software 2 1 Changing Channels Winter 1972.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Radical Software]]'', 1970-1974.]] | [[Image:Radical Software 2 1 Changing Channels Winter 1972.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Radical Software]]'', 1970-1974.]] | ||
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+ | [[Image:Shamberg Michael Raindance Corporation Guerrilla Television 1971.jpg|thumb|200px|Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, ''Guerrilla Television'', 1971.]] | ||
[[Image:Boyle_Deirdre_Subject_to_Change_Guerrilla_Television_Revisited 1997.jpg|thumb|200px|Deidre Boyle, ''Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited'', 1997, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=406 Log].]] | [[Image:Boyle_Deirdre_Subject_to_Change_Guerrilla_Television_Revisited 1997.jpg|thumb|200px|Deidre Boyle, ''Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited'', 1997, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=406 Log].]] | ||
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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. [http://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/1964] | + | * 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] |
* 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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* Tjebbe van Tijen, [[Media:van Tijen Tjebbe 1993 A Context for Collecting the New Media.pdf|"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. | * Tjebbe van Tijen, [[Media:van Tijen Tjebbe 1993 A Context for Collecting the New Media.pdf|"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. | ||
− | * Alexandra Juhasz, ''[[Media:Juhasz Alexandra AIDS TV Identity Community and Alternative Video 1995.pdf|AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video]]'', Duke University Press, 1995, 316 pp. | + | * Alexandra Juhasz, ''[[Media:Juhasz Alexandra AIDS TV Identity Community and Alternative Video 1995.pdf|AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video]]'', Duke University Press, 1995, 316 pp. [https://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/ Author]. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/aids-tv Publisher]. |
* Deidre Boyle, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=406 Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited]'', Oxford University Press, 1997, 286 pp, [[Media:Boyle_Deirdre_Subject_to_Change_Guerrilla_Television_Revisited.pdf|PDF]]. | * Deidre Boyle, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=406 Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited]'', Oxford University Press, 1997, 286 pp, [[Media:Boyle_Deirdre_Subject_to_Change_Guerrilla_Television_Revisited.pdf|PDF]]. | ||
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* William Merrin, [[Media:Merrin William 2012 Still Fighting the Beast Guerrilla Television and the Limits of YouTube.pdf|"Still Fighting “the Beast”: Guerrilla Television and the Limits of YouTube"]], ''Cultural Politics'' 8:1, Mar 2012, pp 97-119. | * William Merrin, [[Media:Merrin William 2012 Still Fighting the Beast Guerrilla Television and the Limits of YouTube.pdf|"Still Fighting “the Beast”: Guerrilla Television and the Limits of YouTube"]], ''Cultural Politics'' 8:1, Mar 2012, pp 97-119. | ||
− | * Sara Chapman, [https://sci-hub. | + | * ''Journal of Film and Video'' 64(1-2): "Early Video History", ed. Elizabeth Coffman, Spring/Summer 2012. [https://sci-hub.se/10.5406/jfilmvideo.64.1-2.0001 TOC]. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.64.1-2.issue-1-2] |
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+ | * Sara Chapman, [https://sci-hub.se/10.5406/jfilmvideo.64.1-2.0042 "Guerrilla Television in the Digital Archive"], ''Journal of Film and Video'' 64:1-2, Spring/Summer 2012, pp 42-50. | ||
* Kris Paulsen, [http://amodern.net/article/half-inch-revolution/ "Half-Inch Revolution: The Guerrilla Video Tape Network"], ''Amodern'' 2, Oct 2013. | * Kris Paulsen, [http://amodern.net/article/half-inch-revolution/ "Half-Inch Revolution: The Guerrilla Video Tape Network"], ''Amodern'' 2, Oct 2013. | ||
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** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22021 Musas insumisas: Delphine Seyrig y los colectivos de vídeo feminista en Francia en los 70 y 80]'', Madrid: Museo Reina Sofía, 2019, 231 pp. {{es}} | ** ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22021 Musas insumisas: Delphine Seyrig y los colectivos de vídeo feminista en Francia en los 70 y 80]'', Madrid: Museo Reina Sofía, 2019, 231 pp. {{es}} | ||
− | * Sandra Ristovska, ''[https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12244.001.0001 Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession]'', MIT Press, 288 pp, [[Media:Ristovska_Sandra_Seeing_Human_Rights_Video_Activism_as_a_Proxy_Profession_2021.epub|EPUB]]. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/seeing-human-rights] | + | * Sandra Ristovska, ''[https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12244.001.0001 Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession]'', MIT Press, 2021, 288 pp, [[Media:Ristovska_Sandra_Seeing_Human_Rights_Video_Activism_as_a_Proxy_Profession_2021.epub|EPUB]]. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/seeing-human-rights] |
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+ | * Francesco Spampinato, ''Art vs. TV: A Brief History of Contemporary Artists' Responses to Television'', Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 368 pp. [https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/art-vs-tv-9781501370571/ Publisher]. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== |
Revision as of 15:41, 21 May 2022
Video activism, guerrilla television, alternative television, video documentary, community television.
Projects, collectives, activists
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
- Video Vortex #10 Istanbul: Art, Activism, Archive, Istanbul, 19-20 Sep 2014. [1]
- The Power of Activist Videos, conference, ICI Berlin, 12-13 May 2017. Organized by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana.
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]
- Preserving Guerilla Television: TVTV, BAMPFA, University of California. Digital collections. [4]
Resources
- Video Activism 2.0, research project on the attention strategies of video activism on the social web.
Literature
- 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]
- Martha Gever, "Video Politics: Early Feminist Projects", Afterimage, Summer 1983, pp 25-27. [7]
- Wolfgang Stickel, Zur Geschichte der Videobewegung: politisch orientierte Medienarbeit mit Video in den 70er und 80er Jahren: am Beispiel der Medienwerkstatt Freiburg und anderer Videogruppen und Medienzentren in der Bundesrepublik, Freiburg: Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, 1991; corr.ed., 1992; 2014, 187 pp. Master's thesis. Excerpt. (German)
- 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.
- Alexandra Juhasz, AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video, Duke University Press, 1995, 316 pp. Author. Publisher.
- Deidre Boyle, Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited, Oxford University Press, 1997, 286 pp, PDF.
- Carlos Fernandez, "Movements and Militant Media: Communications Technology and Latin American Grassroots Politics", in Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority, eds. Josh MacPhee and Erik Reuland, AK Press, 2007, pp 229-235.
- Carolyn Faber, Jakob Jakobsen, Guerilla Television and Activist Video: A View from the Last 35 Years, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Free University, 2007, 56 pp. Excerpt, [8]. 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.
- Ege Berensel, "From Guerilla Television to Video-Activism, from Witness Video to Media-Activism: How to Resist Using Video", Goethe.de, 2012.
- William Merrin, "Still Fighting “the Beast”: Guerrilla Television and the Limits of YouTube", Cultural Politics 8:1, Mar 2012, pp 97-119.
- Journal of Film and Video 64(1-2): "Early Video History", ed. Elizabeth Coffman, Spring/Summer 2012. TOC. [9]
- Sara Chapman, "Guerrilla Television in the Digital Archive", Journal of Film and Video 64:1-2, Spring/Summer 2012, pp 42-50.
- Kris Paulsen, "Half-Inch Revolution: The Guerrilla Video Tape Network", Amodern 2, Oct 2013.
- Brian Holmes, "Tactical Television. Movement Media in the Nineties", Regarding Spectatorship, 2015.
- Chris Robé, Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas, Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2017, x+469 pp.
- Ege Berensel (ed.), Video'nun Eylemi, Istanbul: Alef Yayinevi, 2017, 238 pp. [10] (Turkish)
- Gülüm Şener, Nihan Gider Işıkman (eds.), Video Aktivizmde. Kavramlar Sorunlar Uygulamalar, Ankara: um:ag Yayınları, 2018, 230 pp. Publisher. [11] (Turkish)
- Michael Goddard, Guerrilla Networks: An Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, 358 pp. TOC & Introduction. [12]. Review: Gloor (H-Soz-Kult).
- Freya Schiwy, "Thresholds of the Visible: Activist Video, Militancy, and Prefigurative Politics", ARTMargins 8:3, Oct 2019, pp 7-28. [13]
- Freya Schiwy, The Open Invitation: Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
- Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France, 1970s-1980s, Madrid: Museo Reina Sofía, 2019, 231 pp. (English)
- Musas insumisas: Delphine Seyrig y los colectivos de vídeo feminista en Francia en los 70 y 80, Madrid: Museo Reina Sofía, 2019, 231 pp. (Spanish)
- Sandra Ristovska, Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession, MIT Press, 2021, 288 pp, EPUB. [14]
- Francesco Spampinato, Art vs. TV: A Brief History of Contemporary Artists' Responses to Television, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 368 pp. Publisher.
See also