Democratic Television in The Netherlands: Two Curious Cases of Alternative Media as Counter-Technologies ...

For this article, the authors retrieved two curious cases of non-conformist TV from the archives of the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision. Being made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the two cases represent an alternative history of broadcast television in the Netherlands. Whereas Neon (1979–1980) aimed to establish a punk-inspired DIY video culture, Ed van der Elsken (1980, 1981) strived for an expressive amateur film culture. The authors propose to regard these cases as two different experiments on participation in and through media. By conceptualising amateur film and video as cou... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Slootweg, Tom
Aasman, Susan
Dokumenttyp: article-journal
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Verlag/Hrsg.: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Schlagwörter: Fernsehen / media participation / broadcast television / punk project / personal cinema / counter-technologies / media archaeology / alternative media history / amateur film and video / democratisation / 070 / 791
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29160944
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14117

For this article, the authors retrieved two curious cases of non-conformist TV from the archives of the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision. Being made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the two cases represent an alternative history of broadcast television in the Netherlands. Whereas Neon (1979–1980) aimed to establish a punk-inspired DIY video culture, Ed van der Elsken (1980, 1981) strived for an expressive amateur film culture. The authors propose to regard these cases as two different experiments on participation in and through media. By conceptualising amateur film and video as counter-technologies, the discursive expectations around their democratic potential can be explored further. ...