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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.
 
* [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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* [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.
  
 
==Collections, digital platforms==
 
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==Literature==
 
==Literature==
  
[[Image:Radical Software 2 1 Changing Channels Winter 1972.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Radical Software]]'', 1970-1974.]]
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[[Image:Radical Software 2 1 Changing Channels Winter 1972.jpg|thumb|300px|''[[Radical Software]]'', 1970-1974.]]
  
[[Image:Shamberg Michael Raindance Corporation Guerrilla Television 1971.jpg|thumb|200px|Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, ''Guerrilla Television'', 1971.]]
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[[Image:Shamberg Michael Raindance Corporation Guerrilla Television 1971.jpg|thumb|300px|Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, ''Guerrilla Television'', 1971.]]
  
[[Image:Boyle_Deirdre_Subject_to_Change_Guerrilla_Television_Revisited 1997.jpg|thumb|200px|Deidre 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].]]
  
[[Image:Defiant_Muses_Delphine_Seyrig_and_the_Feminist_Video_Collectives_in_France_1970s-1980s_2019.jpg|thumb|200px|''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: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]].]]
  
 
* ''[[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.
 
* ''[[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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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, video documentary, community television.

Projects, collectives, activists

No pages meet these criteria.

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.

Collections, digital platforms

  • 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." [2] [3]

Resources

  • Video Activism 2.0, research project on the attention strategies of video activism on the social web.

Literature

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.
  • 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.
  • Michael Shamberg, Raindance Corporation, Guerrilla Television, New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt Rinehart and Winstin, 1971, 108 pp. TOC. Ad. Review. [5] [6]
  • 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.
  • Carolyn Faber, Jakob Jakobsen, Guerilla Television and Activist Video: A View from the Last 35 Years, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Free University, 2007, 56 pp. Excerpt, [8]. 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. [9]
  • Ege Berensel (ed.), Video'nun Eylemi, Istanbul: Alef Yayinevi, 2017, 238 pp. [10] (Turkish)
  • Gülüm Şener, Nihan Gider Işıkman (eds.), Video Aktivizmde. Kavramlar Sorunlar Uygulamalar, Ankara: um:ag Yayınları, 2018, 230 pp. Publisher. [11] (Turkish)
  • Francesco Spampinato, Art vs. TV: A Brief History of Contemporary Artists' Responses to Television, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 368 pp. Publisher.

See also