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[[Image:Defiant_Muses_Delphine_Seyrig_and_the_Feminist_Video_Collectives_in_France_1970s-1980s_2019.jpg|thumb|300px|''Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France, 1970s-1980s'', 2019, [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22021 Log], [[Media:Defiant_Muses_Delphine_Seyrig_and_the_Feminist_Video_Collectives_in_France_1970s-1980s_2019.pdf|PDF]].]]
 
[[Image:Defiant_Muses_Delphine_Seyrig_and_the_Feminist_Video_Collectives_in_France_1970s-1980s_2019.jpg|thumb|300px|''Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France, 1970s-1980s'', 2019, [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22021 Log], [[Media:Defiant_Muses_Delphine_Seyrig_and_the_Feminist_Video_Collectives_in_France_1970s-1980s_2019.pdf|PDF]].]]
  
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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.
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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.
  
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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/]
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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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* Wolfgang Stickel, ''[[Media:Stickel Wolfgang Zur Geschichte der Videobewegung 1991 2014.pdf|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. [http://medienwerkstatt-freiburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MW-Geschichte.pdf Excerpt]. {{de}}
 
* Wolfgang Stickel, ''[[Media:Stickel Wolfgang Zur Geschichte der Videobewegung 1991 2014.pdf|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. [http://medienwerkstatt-freiburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MW-Geschichte.pdf Excerpt]. {{de}}
  
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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.  
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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.  
  
 
* 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].
 
* 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].
  
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* [[Deidre Boyle]], ''[https://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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* [[Deirdre Boyle]], ''[https://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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* [[DeeDee Halleck]], ''Hand-Held Visions: The Uses of Community Media'', Fordham University Press, 2001, 486 pp.
  
 
* Sara Chapman, [https://www.smecc.org/alternative_television_-chicago.htm "Alternative Television: A Short History of Early Video Activism in Chicago"], 2005. BA thesis.
 
* Sara Chapman, [https://www.smecc.org/alternative_television_-chicago.htm "Alternative Television: A Short History of Early Video Activism in Chicago"], 2005. BA thesis.
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* Carlos Fernandez, [[Media:Fernandez Carlos 2007 Movements and Militant Media Communications Technology and Latin American Grassroots Politics.pdf|"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.  
 
* Carlos Fernandez, [[Media:Fernandez Carlos 2007 Movements and Militant Media Communications Technology and Latin American Grassroots Politics.pdf|"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.  
  
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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.
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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.
  
 
* 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.  
 
* 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.  
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* 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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* Brian Holmes, [http://web.archive.org/web/20160213122106/www.regardingspectatorship.net/tactical-television-movement-media-in-the-nineties/ "Tactical Television. Movement Media in the Nineties"], ''Regarding Spectatorship'', 2015.
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* [[Brian Holmes]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20160213122106/www.regardingspectatorship.net/tactical-television-movement-media-in-the-nineties/ "Tactical Television. Movement Media in the Nineties"], ''Regarding Spectatorship'', 2015.
  
 
* Chris Robé, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22677 Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas]'', Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2017, x+469 pp.
 
* Chris Robé, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22677 Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas]'', Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2017, x+469 pp.
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* Gülüm Şener, Nihan Gider Işıkman (eds.), ''Video Aktivizmde. Kavramlar Sorunlar Uygulamalar'', Ankara: um:ag Yayınları, 2018, 230 pp. [http://www.umag.org.tr/tr/yayinevi/200/medya-ve-gazetecilik-dizisi/146/videoaktivizmde-kavramlar-sorunlar-uygulamalar Publisher]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vyyDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1] {{tr}}
 
* Gülüm Şener, Nihan Gider Işıkman (eds.), ''Video Aktivizmde. Kavramlar Sorunlar Uygulamalar'', Ankara: um:ag Yayınları, 2018, 230 pp. [http://www.umag.org.tr/tr/yayinevi/200/medya-ve-gazetecilik-dizisi/146/videoaktivizmde-kavramlar-sorunlar-uygulamalar Publisher]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vyyDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1] {{tr}}
  
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* Michael Goddard, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/e6873b0f-14e7-4e65-8e07-6e108f40cfda Guerrilla Networks: An Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies]'', Amsterdam University Press, 2018, 358 pp. [https://en.aup.nl/download/9789048527533%20ToC%20+%20Intro.pdf TOC & Introduction]. [http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089648891-guerrilla-networks.html]. Review: [https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-29283 Gloor] (H-Soz-Kult).
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* [[Michael Goddard]], ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/e6873b0f-14e7-4e65-8e07-6e108f40cfda Guerrilla Networks: An Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies]'', Amsterdam University Press, 2018, 358 pp. [https://en.aup.nl/download/9789048527533%20ToC%20+%20Intro.pdf TOC & Introduction]. [http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089648891-guerrilla-networks.html]. Review: [https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-29283 Gloor] (H-Soz-Kult).
  
 
* Freya Schiwy, [[Media:Schiwy Freya 2019 Thresholds of the Visible Activist Video Militancy and Prefigurative Politics.pdf|"Thresholds of the Visible: Activist Video, Militancy, and Prefigurative Politics"]], ''ARTMargins'' 8:3, Oct 2019, pp 7-28. [https://doi.org/10.1162/artm_a_00242]
 
* Freya Schiwy, [[Media:Schiwy Freya 2019 Thresholds of the Visible Activist Video Militancy and Prefigurative Politics.pdf|"Thresholds of the Visible: Activist Video, Militancy, and Prefigurative Politics"]], ''ARTMargins'' 8:3, Oct 2019, pp 7-28. [https://doi.org/10.1162/artm_a_00242]

Revision as of 15:00, 2 November 2024

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, community television, community video, tactical television, access TV

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

  • 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.
  • People Make Television, exhibition, Raven Row, London, 28 Jan-26 Mar 2023. Curated by Lori E. Allen, William Fowler, Matthew Harle and Alex Sainsbury.

Collections, platforms, resources

  • 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." [4] [5]
  • 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.
  • Video Activism 2.0, research project on the attention strategies of video activism on the social web.

Publications

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.
  • 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.
  • DeeDee Halleck, Hand-Held Visions: The Uses of Community Media, Fordham University Press, 2001, 486 pp.
  • 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."
  • Carolyn Faber, Jakob Jakobsen, Guerilla Television and Activist Video: A View from the Last 35 Years, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Free University, 2007, 56 pp. Excerpt, [11]. 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. [12]
  • Ege Berensel (ed.), Video'nun Eylemi, Istanbul: Alef Yayinevi, 2017, 238 pp. [13] (Turkish)
  • Gülüm Şener, Nihan Gider Işıkman (eds.), Video Aktivizmde. Kavramlar Sorunlar Uygulamalar, Ankara: um:ag Yayınları, 2018, 230 pp. Publisher. [14] (Turkish)

See also

Video, Community radio, Community servers, Art and activism



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