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[[Image:Wendy_Appel_and_Rita_Ogden_c1972.jpg|thumb|350px|Wendy Appel and Rita Ogden filming with Sony Portapak, c.1972. Photo: Paul Goldsmith. Photo courtesy of [[TVTV]].]]
 
[[Image:Wendy_Appel_and_Rita_Ogden_c1972.jpg|thumb|350px|Wendy Appel and Rita Ogden filming with Sony Portapak, c.1972. Photo: Paul Goldsmith. Photo courtesy of [[TVTV]].]]
  
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<div class="lede">Video activism, guerrilla television, alternative television, community television, community video, tactical television, access TV</div>
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<div class="lede">For activist, alternative, artist, community, experimental, guerrilla and tactical video and television</div>
  
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==Projects, collectives, activists==
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''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
 
''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
  
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==Events==
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==Platforms, projects, collections, resources==
  
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* [http://videovortex10.net Video Vortex #10 Istanbul: Art, Activism, Archive], Istanbul, 19-20 Sep 2014. [https://networkcultures.org/videovortex/past-events/events/]
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* [https://node.uchicago.edu/guerrilla-television 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.
  
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* [http://videoactivism.net/en/conference-berlin-2017/ The Power of Activist Videos], conference, ICI Berlin, 12-13 May 2017. Organized by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20191028171546/http://www.the-lcva.co.uk/items?splash=true London Community Video Archive] (LCVA), preserves the work of the Community Video movement in the 1970s and 80s, in London and the South East. Based at Goldsmiths University and the BFI. [https://www.youtube.com/c/LondonCommunityVideoArchive YouTube]. [https://vimeo.com/thelcva Vimeo].
  
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* [https://www.t-e-s-t-c-a-r-d.com/ 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.
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* [https://mediaburn.org/watch-videos-from-our-collection11/ 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." [https://mediaburn.org/blog/resurrecting-the-1970s-guerrilla-television-movement/] [https://news.uchicago.edu/story/hidden-history-guerrilla-television-uchicago-scholars-preserve-decades-old-videos]
  
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* [http://www.ravenrow.org/current/ People Make Television], exhibition, Raven Row, London, 28 Jan-26 Mar 2023. Curated by Lori E. Allen, William Fowler, Matthew Harle and Alex Sainsbury.
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* [https://guerrillatv.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ Preserving Guerilla Television: TVTV], BAMPFA, University of California. [https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/search?&sf=title&so=a&rm=&p=collection%3A%27Top%20Value%20Television%20papers%27&ln=en Digital collections]. [https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/07/18/digitization-project-reveals-unseen-guerrilla-footage-that-revolutionized-tv]
  
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* [https://mediaburn.org/blog/guerrilla-television-program/ Guerrilla Television: The Revolutions of Early Independent Video], symposium, University of Chicago’s Cobb Hall 307, Chicago, 19-21 April 2024. Presented by Media Burn, the University of Chicago’s Cinema and Media Studies Department, and the School of the Art Institute’s Video Data Bank. [https://mediaburn.org/events/guerrilla-television-the-revolutions-of-early-independent-video/] [https://cms.uchicago.edu/guerrilla-television-revolutions-early-independent-video]
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* [https://tv-free-europe.eu/ 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.,
  
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==Collections, platforms, resources==
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* [https://ukrainatv.streamart.studio/ 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.
  
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* [https://mediaburn.org/watch-videos-from-our-collection11/ 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." [https://mediaburn.org/blog/resurrecting-the-1970s-guerrilla-television-movement/] [https://news.uchicago.edu/story/hidden-history-guerrilla-television-uchicago-scholars-preserve-decades-old-videos]  
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* [https://vangoghtv.hs-mainz.de Van Gogh TV] research project, 2018-2021. [https://vangoghtv.hs-mainz.de/?page_id=89066&lang=en Exhibition (2021)]. [https://piazza-virtuale.common.garden/ Online companion].
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* [http://videoactivism.net/en/ Video Activism 2.0], research project on the attention strategies of video activism on the social web.
  
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* [https://guerrillatv.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ Preserving Guerilla Television: TVTV], BAMPFA, University of California. [https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/search?&sf=title&so=a&rm=&p=collection%3A%27Top%20Value%20Television%20papers%27&ln=en Digital collections]. [https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/07/18/digitization-project-reveals-unseen-guerrilla-footage-that-revolutionized-tv]
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* [https://verein.videonale.org/en/projekte/video-digest-magazine Video Digest Magazine], 2023. The online magazine "initiated by [[Videonale]] and [[imai|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." [[Media:Video_Digest booklet 2023.pdf|Booklet PDF]].
  
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20191028171546/http://www.the-lcva.co.uk/items?splash=true London Community Video Archive] (LCVA), preserves the work of the Community Video movement in the 1970s and 80s, in London and the South East. Based at Goldsmiths University and the BFI. [https://www.youtube.com/c/LondonCommunityVideoArchive YouTube]. [https://vimeo.com/thelcva Vimeo].
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==Works==
  
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* [https://node.uchicago.edu/guerrilla-television 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.
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* ''Spin'', dir. Brian Springer, 1995, 57 min. Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities' contempt for their viewers. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114512/] [http://web.archive.org/web/20160213122106/www.regardingspectatorship.net/tactical-television-movement-media-in-the-nineties/]
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* [http://videoactivism.net/en/ Video Activism 2.0], research project on the attention strategies of video activism on the social web.
 
  
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* [https://vangoghtv.hs-mainz.de Van Gogh TV] research project, 2018-2021. [https://vangoghtv.hs-mainz.de/?page_id=89066&lang=en Exhibition (2021)]. [https://piazza-virtuale.common.garden/ Online companion].
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* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TId3AIvfXL4 Videogramme einer Revolution]'' [Videograms of a Revolution], dir. [[Harun Farocki]] and Andrei Ujica, 1992, 106 min. 16 mm (transferred from video). (link to a version with ES subs)
  
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==
  
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[[Image:Radical Software 2 1 Changing Channels Winter 1972.jpg|thumb|300px|''[[Radical Software]]'', 1970-1974.]]
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Defiant_Muses_Delphine_Seyrig_and_the_Feminist_Video_Collectives_in_France_1970s-1980s_2019.jpg|''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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[[Image:Shamberg Michael Raindance Corporation Guerrilla Television 1971.jpg|thumb|300px|Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, ''Guerrilla Television'', 1971.]]
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Boyle_Deirdre_Subject_to_Change_Guerrilla_Television_Revisited 1997.jpg|Deirdre Boyle, ''Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited'', 1997, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=406 Log].
  
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[[Image:Boyle_Deirdre_Subject_to_Change_Guerrilla_Television_Revisited 1997.jpg|thumb|300px|Deidre Boyle, ''Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited'', 1997, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=406 Log].]]
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Shamberg Michael Raindance Corporation Guerrilla Television 1971.jpg|Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, ''Guerrilla Television'', 1971.
  
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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]].]]
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Radical Software 2 1 Changing Channels Winter 1972.jpg|''[[Radical Software]]'', 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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===2020s===
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* Andrew Roach, ''[https://communitymedia.network/ Community Media: A Handbook for Revolutions in DIY TV]'', 2023. [https://retro.social/@ajroach42/110616713298380952 Toot].
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* Francesco Spampinato, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=0A74DBFACEC12A3292639EB9912EB3E9 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]. Review: [https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12740 Day] (Art Hist).
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* 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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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22021 Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France, 1970s-1980s]'', Madrid: Museo Reina Sofía, 2019, 231 pp. {{en}}
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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}}
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* Freya Schiwy, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/4c3ba0f8-38a4-4f9b-bad3-c87ebd54305d The Open Invitation: Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect]'', University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
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* 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]
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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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* 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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* Ege Berensel (ed.), ''Video'nun Eylemi'', Istanbul: Alef Yayinevi, 2017, 238 pp. [https://www.nadirkitap.com/videonun-eylemi-derleyen-ege-berensel-kitap10662622.html] {{tr}}
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* 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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* 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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* [[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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* 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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* 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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* [[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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* Sara Chapman, [https://sci-hub.st/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.
  
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* 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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* ''Journal of Film and Video'' 64(1-2): "Early Video History", ed. Elizabeth Coffman, Spring/Summer 2012. [https://sci-hub.st/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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* [[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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* 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.
  
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* [[DeeDee Halleck]], ''Hand-Held Visions: The Uses of Community Media'', Fordham University Press, 2001, 486 pp.
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* Ege Berensel, [http://www.goethe.de/ins/tr/lp/prj/art/med/str/en9835055.htm "From Guerilla Television to Video-Activism, from Witness Video to Media-Activism: How to Resist Using Video"], ''Goethe.de'', 2012.  
  
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* 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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* Stéphanie Jeanjean, [https://sci-hub.st/10.1086/661606 "Disobedient Video in France in the 1970s: Video Production by Women’s Collectives"], ''Afterall'' 27, Summer 2011, pp 5-16.
  
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* [[Sher Doruff]], with [[Nancy Mauro-Flude]] (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=3661 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."
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* Nancy Cain, ''Video Days and What We Saw Through the Viewfinder'', Palm Springs, CA: Event Horizon Press, 2011.
  
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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.
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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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===2000s===
  
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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.
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* ''[[Media:Videokronik Aktivisme Video dan Distribusi Video di Indonesia 2009.pdf|Videokronik: Aktivisme Video dan Distribusi Video di Indonesia]]'', Yogyakarta: KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, and Collingwood: EngageMedia, 2009, 70 pp. [https://www.kunci.or.id/collections/videochronic/ Publisher]. {{id}}
 
* ''[[Media:Videokronik Aktivisme Video dan Distribusi Video di Indonesia 2009.pdf|Videokronik: Aktivisme Video dan Distribusi Video di Indonesia]]'', Yogyakarta: KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, and Collingwood: EngageMedia, 2009, 70 pp. [https://www.kunci.or.id/collections/videochronic/ Publisher]. {{id}}
 
** ''[[Media:Videochronic Video Activism and Video Distribution in Indonesia 2009.pdf|Videochronic: Video Activism and Video Distribution in Indonesia]]'', Yogyakarta: KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, and Collingwood: EngageMedia, 2009, 68 pp. [https://www.kunci.or.id/collections/videochronic/ Publisher].
 
** ''[[Media:Videochronic Video Activism and Video Distribution in Indonesia 2009.pdf|Videochronic: Video Activism and Video Distribution in Indonesia]]'', Yogyakarta: KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, and Collingwood: EngageMedia, 2009, 68 pp. [https://www.kunci.or.id/collections/videochronic/ Publisher].
  
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* Nancy Cain, ''Video Days and What We Saw Through the Viewfinder'', Palm Springs, CA: Event Horizon Press, 2011.
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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.
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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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* 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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* [[Sher Doruff]], with [[Nancy Mauro-Flude]] (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=3661 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."
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* 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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* [[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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* Stéphanie Jeanjean, [https://sci-hub.st/10.1086/661606 "Disobedient Video in France in the 1970s: Video Production by Women’s Collectives"], ''Afterall'' 27, Summer 2011, pp 5-16.
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* 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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* Ege Berensel, [http://www.goethe.de/ins/tr/lp/prj/art/med/str/en9835055.htm "From Guerilla Television to Video-Activism, from Witness Video to Media-Activism: How to Resist Using Video"], ''Goethe.de'', 2012.  
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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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* 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.
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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}}
  
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* ''Journal of Film and Video'' 64(1-2): "Early Video History", ed. Elizabeth Coffman, Spring/Summer 2012. [https://sci-hub.st/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.st/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.
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===1970s-1980s===
  
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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.
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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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* 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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* 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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* [[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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* Ege Berensel (ed.), ''Video'nun Eylemi'', Istanbul: Alef Yayinevi, 2017, 238 pp. [https://www.nadirkitap.com/videonun-eylemi-derleyen-ege-berensel-kitap10662622.html] {{tr}}
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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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* 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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==Events==
  
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* 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]
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* [https://mediaburn.org/blog/guerrilla-television-program/ Guerrilla Television: The Revolutions of Early Independent Video], symposium, University of Chicago’s Cobb Hall 307, Chicago, 19-21 April 2024. Presented by Media Burn, the University of Chicago’s Cinema and Media Studies Department, and the School of the Art Institute’s Video Data Bank. [https://mediaburn.org/events/guerrilla-television-the-revolutions-of-early-independent-video/] [https://cms.uchicago.edu/guerrilla-television-revolutions-early-independent-video]
  
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* Freya Schiwy, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/4c3ba0f8-38a4-4f9b-bad3-c87ebd54305d The Open Invitation: Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect]'', University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
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* [https://verein.videonale.org/en/projekte/video-digest 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. [[Media:Video_Digest booklet 2023.pdf|Booklet PDF]].
  
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22021 Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France, 1970s-1980s]'', Madrid: Museo Reina Sofía, 2019, 231 pp. {{en}}
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* [http://www.ravenrow.org/current/ People Make Television], exhibition, Raven Row, London, 28 January-26 March 2023. Curated by Lori E. Allen, William Fowler, Matthew Harle and Alex Sainsbury.
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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}}
 
  
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* 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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* [https://www.t-e-s-t-c-a-r-d.com/ 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.
  
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* Francesco Spampinato, ''[http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=0A74DBFACEC12A3292639EB9912EB3E9 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]. Review: [https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12740 Day] (Art Hist).
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* [http://videoactivism.net/en/conference-berlin-2017/ The Power of Activist Videos], conference, ICI Berlin, 12-13 May 2017. Organised by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana.
  
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* Andrew Roach, ''[https://communitymedia.network/ Community Media: A Handbook for Revolutions in DIY TV]'', 2023. [https://retro.social/@ajroach42/110616713298380952 Toot].
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* [http://videovortex10.net Video Vortex #10 Istanbul: Art, Activism, Archive], Istanbul, 19-20 September 2014. [https://networkcultures.org/videovortex/past-events/events/]
  
 
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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

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

  • 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

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

Publications

  • 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

2010s

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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


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