Proto Media Primer - Raindance Collective (1970)
Founded in 1969 by Frank Gillette, Paul Ryan, Michael Shamberg and Ira Schneider, Raindance was a media collective that proposed radical theories and philosophies of video as an alternative form of cultural communication. Influenced by the theories of Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller, the collective explored the relation of cybernetics, media and ecology. From 1970 to 1974, Raindance published the seminal video journal, Radical Software.
Paul Garrin Videoworks (1988 - 1990)
Paul Garrin advocates the use of video as an activist and community tool and a means for people to represent themselves. These three pieces examine the Tompkins Square riots, police harassment, and the use of home video equipment to record a truly democratic local news.
"Once Big Brother' was the state watching the people, now the people can begin watching the state."
—Paul Garrin
"Once Big Brother' was the state watching the people, now the people can begin watching the state."
—Paul Garrin
Transformer / AIDS - Deep Dish TV, Paper Tiger Television, & Bob Kenny (1991)
Transformer / AIDS looks at the governmental response to AIDS at this crucial point in history, when activism forced the issue onto the public agenda. A sarcastically funny, yet poignant critique engineered spearheaded by critic Bob Kinney & Produced by Paper Tiger TV.
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Retooling Dissent (2002)
This video marks a period of dissent and experimentation around the February 2, 2002 meeting of the World Economic Forum in Manhattan (NYC) at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. The global executives and corporate elite attending the annual conference, usually held in Davos Switzerland, carved the streets of New York City into a police state. Meanwhile artists and activist--tactical media practitioners, from around the world created new tools and held workshops intending to send them a clear message: The September 11th attacks will NOT gag the critiques of globalization. This video explores the collaborations and ideas of four collectives working on projects at the WEF protests.
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