Activist videos
Montage as a creative tool for student reflections on their role as spectators
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16959191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marianna Liosi (0000-0002-1522-0407, University of Ferrara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2364-4583 • E-ISSN: 2364-4583 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1186/s40990-018-0024-0 |
| OpenAlex | W2888118485 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article is a reflective text by an art curator interested in exploring the boundaries between video activism, spectatorship, and pedagogy. It proposes new ways of critically understanding the terms “activist,” “participation,” and “militancy” in the context of an expanded notion of the image and the role of the spectator. Emerging from field notes, the article narrates and shares the experiences of engaging students at workshops for “Between Broadcast – a project around activist videos,” held at at fine art academies and universities in Leipzig, Düsseldorf, and Bergamo. The practical aim of the workshops was to introduce and engage students with the subject of so-called activist video clips on YouTube. The students were asked to find, select, and discuss militant videos and, subsequently, to create a montage from them. The conceptual aim of the workshop was to reflect upon video spectatorship online and what that means, the agency of the spectator, and the possibilities of their active participation in the process of viewing. The outcomes of the workshops were the development of critical thinking of the students concerning the subjects of online video, digital empathy, their engagement with videos as individual viewers and as a collective, and the power of montage as a narrative and activist tool
Agency (philosophy · Art · Context (archaeology · Empathy · Literature · Media studies · Multimedia · Narrative · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |