Rebel Video: The Video Movement of the 1970s and 1980s. London Bern Lausanne Basel Zürich - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3858818011 ISBN 13: 9783858818010

Verlag: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

During the 1970s and 1980s, the independent community media and various youth movements across Europe inspired and abetted each other. The young activists discovered the video tape as a medium and as means to express their protesting mood and concerns. The easily produced moving images in videos soon also became also a weapon in the political and communication fights for the autonomous culture spaces the movement demanded in many countries. Videos were participative productions, done almost in real time and fast.

This appropriation of video technology as means of two-way communication between sender and recipient also proved a key step towards the digital age. Today, consumers, citizens, and professionals not only receive moving images and audio documents. Anyone can almost anywhere produce and broadcast such pieces at no expense. The young activist-directors of 1970s and 1980s went beyond dreaming of such a development. They explored it and experimented within small networks.

Rebel Video portrays protagonists of this activist movement in London, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, and Zurich. It documents what topics and concerns these creative rowdies picked-up and the lasting effect their work has until today. Richly illustrated and completed with brief essays by expert authors on specific aspects of film documentary and video art, the book demonstrates and illuminates the significance and manifold facets of the community media movement.

The book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Rebel Video: The Video Movemet of the 70s and 80s at the Landesmuseum Zürich and complemented by the website rebelvideo.ch.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Heinz Nigg ist Ethnologe und Kulturschaffender. In den 1970erund 1980er-Jahren gehörte er zu den Wegbereitern der Community-Arts- und Community-Media-Bewegung in London und der Schweiz. Er ist Mitbegründer des London Community Video Archive (LCVA) und des Videoarchivs «Stadt in Bewegung».

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Scheidegger & Spiess
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3858818011
• ISBN 13: 9783858818010
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 396
• Herausgeber: Nigg Heinz
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland