Here is a selection of some of the videos shown during my presentation. While watching try to contemplate the following questions...
* Does new media legitimize activist video? What modes of activism? Are there issues of contention?
For example, when the Police beating of Rodney King was captured on amateur video...it galvanized political action around police violence. The same video was then used in court to prove the innocence of the police officers involved?
* With new technology being so accessible that everyday action can be captured on it what are the possibilities and limitations of this technology in mitigating mass resistance?
*What purpose does activist video serve?
From Adrian Piper: ...the work as such is non existent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and the viewer...
Link to Adrian Piper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUJ8MhXTwtI&eurl=
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