Sorry, this entry is only available in German. INTIME ÖFFENTLICHKEITEN: MEDIEN – RÄUME – GEMEINSCHAFTEN Vortragsreihe 2017 28.03., 26.04., 02.05., 30.05., 20.06. Kunstuniversität Linz, IFK Wien, Kepler Salon Linz […]
THE POWER OF ACTIVIST VIDEOS Conference at the ICI Berlin, May 12-13, 2017. Organized by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (Project: Video Activism 2.0 Between Social Media and Social Movements) […]
Eder, Jens/ Klonk, Charlotte (Hg.) (2016): Image Operations. Visual Media and Political Conflict. Manchester: Manchester UP. Works and inspiration that grew out of the international conference Image Operations held in Berlin in April 2014 (organized by Charlotte Klonk of Humboldt University’s Institute for Art History and Video Activism 2.0 principal investigator Jens Eder) [...]
Jihadist hate propaganda as video activism: how the web video COME ON RISE acts as a call to action in the context of the so-called Islamic State’s current Lone Actor campaign […]
The video PEGIDA-ABENDSPAZIERGANG (PEGIDA EVENING WALK) is a mobilisation video in support of the protest marches organised by Pegida Dresden and gives an insight into the xenophobic movement’s self-perception. […]
The bitter irony of a fictitious casting show in the context of the Norwegian asylum policy. […]
Terrorist propaganda is finding wider distribution due to the technological possibilities of the digital age. Terrorist organisations such as the Islamic State are increasingly using Web 2.0. for propaganda purposes and to mobilise potential supporters. In the following, the extremist propaganda video No Respite will be examined in terms of its aesthetics, its possible [...]
Their joy evident and their excitement palpable, a group of young people strolls through the Stockholm Metro, replacing advertisements with hand-painted art posters and showing their viewers how to pass the entrance barriers to the railway station without a valid ticket – but with all the more style. The [...]
This video depicts transgender activist Sylvia Rivera’s furious monologue at a demonstration in 1973. After the original recording was rediscovered and digitalised, it quickly became a major source of inspiration for present-day queer activism. © of the Video by LoveTapesCollective […]
This award-winning promotional clip for a Spanish NGO is the Robin Hood of viral videos: by outwitting YouTube’s automated search algorithms, it takes from the rich and gives to the poor, essentially beating the advertising agency at its own game in order to help the homeless on the streets of Barcelona. Michel [...]
