Early 70’s US-based Video Collectives presented by Dara Greenwald

A talk about the early decentralized television movement in the US and a screening of rare, recently preserved clips of videos documenting political and cultural movements – including Fred Hampton’s last interview, the first Women’s Liberation March, and a pirate TV station. The discussion will also explore the challenges of archiving and preserving video – a quickly degrading medium. Including Fred Hampton’s (Black Panthers) last interview!

Dara Greenwald has worked at the Video Data Bank since 1998 (http://www.vdb.org). She is an educator, artist, and engaged cultural worker. She has been working on preserving a large collection of obsolete format videos from the early 70’s. You can see her other projects at http://www.daragreenwald.com and http://www.pinkbloque.org.

Stencil Pirates: A History of Street Stenciling

An in-depth slide presentation on the 15,000 year history of street stenciling. From caves in France to 1930’s Spain to 1970’s South Africa to 1980’s New York City to the present, this presentation delves deep into the uses, motivations and practices of hundreds
of years of stencil artists and activist. Josh MacPhee is a street artist, designer, curator, author and activist. His first book, Stencil Pirates: A Global Survey of Street Stenciling, was published in July 2004 by Soft Skull Press. He is currently working on a number of other books, including a book about political street art to be published in 2006 on AK Press. He also runs a radical art distribution project, justseeds.org and organizes the Celebrate People’s History Poster Project.

See his work at http://www.justseeds.org, http://www.stencilpirates.org and http://www.counterproductiveindustries.com.