Oxy Videotheque Presents Taking on TV: Early Video Collectives and Guerrilla Television

Join us Thursday 2/6 at 7 PM to kick off the Occidental Media Arts & Culture Program's Oxy Videotheque: Electronic Art & Activism series with guest Allen Rucker, founding member of TVTV, an early video collective of countercultural youths Newsweek referred to at the time as the “braless, blue jeaned video freaks.” 

We will screen TVTV's FOUR MORE YEARS which documents the 1972 Republican National Convention in a fashion that exploded traditional political television coverage and introduced many field reporting strategies soon co-opted by major networks. 

More on Allen Rucker: http://www.allenrucker.com/ 
More on FOUR MORE YEARS: http://www.vdb.org/titles/four-more-years 

Oxy Videotheque: Electronic Art & Activism 1967-2014 is the theme of our Spring, 2014 Cinematheque series. In a digital moment where terms such as “cinema” and “film” are becoming increasingly blurred, this series focuses on video, the electronic medium that has precipitated much of that change. From its analog origins, to digital and now web-based iterations, video has profoundly transformed cinematic ideas of authorship, audience, aesthetics, and agency. Moving from early guerilla video collectives and community-based video activism, to database documentary and video performance art, this series of spring events invites participants to explore the politics, poetics, and potentials of video. Like us on Facebook to follow updates on other upcoming series events. 

A printable campus map is accessible at: http://www.oxy.edu/sites/default/files/assets/OXYmap.pdf

McKinnon/Johnson Hall is # 2 on the map, in the center of campus. The map also indicates a number of different general parking options on campus. 

This series is made possible with generous support from the Remsen-Bird Fund.