Video activism

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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.
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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