AMD 356 - Media and Counterculture

Units: 3

Focuses on video art and production practices that have been linked historically to the American counterculture, beginning with the uses of video as a “street” media or “guerilla television.” Analyzes early video collectives formed in the 1960s in response to the globalization of media culture and the student, feminist, and civil rights movements of the time. Spans the history of alternative systems of distribution and exhibition, art movements in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as theoretical frameworks for understanding power, knowledge, and media.