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]
• Martha Gever, "Video Politics: Early Feminist Projects", Afterimage, Summer 1983, pp 25-27.
• 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.
• 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)
• Sandra Ristovska, Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession, MIT Press, 288 pp, EPUB. [6] (English)

See also

• Video