Guerrilla television

During the 1960s and 1970s, groups of young artists, filmmakers, and activists based in the US and abroad experimented with newly available portable video cameras as an alternative to corporate television broadcasting. Often associated with countercultural movements of the time, video collectives like Raindance Corporation, TVTV (Top Value Television), Videofreex, Ant Farm, Not Channel Zero, Video Hiroba, and CADA emerged to oppose what they viewed as corporate, top-down media culture. Using new, more affordable video technologies like the Sony Portapak, artists promoted greater access to mass communication by documenting political upheavals on the streets and behind the scenes. These collectives championed video as a form of creative resistance and a medium for social change.