Video activism
Artists, collectives
- Ant Farm
- Black Box
- Skip Blumberg
- Eleanor Boyer
- Candida TV
- CEFREC
- David Cort
- Deptford.TV
- Global Village
- Adnan Hadzi
- DeeDee Halleck
- Judy Hoffman
- Les Insoumuses
- Kartemquin Films
- Medienwerkstatt Freiburg
- Original Videojournal
- Paper Tiger TV
- Raindance Foundation
- Delphine Seyrig
- Spectacle
- TVTV
- Undercurrents
- Videofreex
Events
- The Power of Activist Videos conference, ICI Berlin, 12-13 May 2017. Organized by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana.
Resources
- Video Activism 2.0, a research project on web videos.
Literature
- Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, Guerrilla Television, New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt Rinehart and Winstin, 1971. [1]
- 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.
- Deidre Boyle, Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited, Oxford University Press, 1997.
- 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, [2]. 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. [3]
- William Merrin, "Still Fighting “the Beast”: Guerrilla Television and the Limits of YouTube", Cultural Politics 8:1, Mar 2012, pp 97-119.
- 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.
- Michael Goddard, Guerrilla Networks: An Anarchaeology of 1970s Radical Media Ecologies, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, 358 pp. TOC & Introduction. [4]. 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. [5]
- 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)
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