Outlaws Through the Lens of Corporate America
Cinematograph, 1991, no. 4, pp. 180-183
Activists using video to amplify urgent messages, with special focus on AIDS and reproductive rights. Collective strategies for cracking the corporate media system; cultural landscape of the early 90s.
"In the face of a seemingly monolithic power structure of cops, laws, corporate media and societal standards of conformity, a little machine like the Video 8 camcorder is capable of subverting their oppressive voice of authority by amplifying the image and voices of those people and ideas generally deemed unimportant."
ITEM 1991.051 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The Many Faces of Paper – Testing the Limits
Studio of The Streets – Black Cat Collective
The Riddle of the Mysterious Missing Station – 8mm News Collective
DiAna's Hair Ego: AIDS Info Up Front – 8mm News Collective
AIDS in the Barrio – Buffalo Artists Against Repression and Censorship (BAARC)
Mediaactive – Cyndi Cox
The Feeling of Power: #6769 – Julie Zando
Damned Interfering Video Activists b(DIVA TV)
Ellen Spiro
Alba Martinez and Frances Negron
Ray Navarro
Robert Beck
Media Coalition for Reproductive Rights