Radical Software. The Raindance Foundation, Media Ecology and Video Art
Sat, July 01, 2017 – Sun, January 28, 2018
Atrium 1+2
Exhibition
Radical Software
The Raindance Foundation, Media Ecology and Video Art
- Date
- -
- Duration
- 4:30
Description
The exhibition »Radical Software. The Raindance Foundation, for Media Ecology and Video Art« presents video works and installations from the pioneering group of American artists and thinkers of the 1970s who harnessed emergent low cost communication technologies with the purpose of greater ecological uses of the media.
The Raindance Corporation was first founded in 1969 as a media think tank and a group of video makers. It was renamed to the Raindance Foundation in 1971. Raindance challenged the monopoly of the commercial broadcast industry by cultivating artistic uses of video within alternate cultures. In the context of the US-American counterculture of the 1968 movement and inspired by the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller and Gregory Bateson, the Raindance members’ works tested the socio-critical, participatory and emancipatory potential of the new affordable medium of video.
Videodokumentation:
ZKM | Videostudio
Camera: Frenz Jordt, Sophia Kessel, Benedict Meyer, Christina Zartmann
Editing: Benedict Meyer, Christina Zartmann
Sound Recording: Anton Kossjanenko
Voice: Frenz Jordt
Music: “future ambient” by cleanmindsounds
Participants
Exhibitions / Events
Images
Frank Gillette, founder of the »Raindance Foundation« in front of his installation »Track Trace« (1972), ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017© ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Felix Grünschloß
View of the exhibition »Radical Software«, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017© ZKM | Karlsruhe
"Portable Video. A Radical Software State-of-the-Art Report", in: »Radical Software«, Vol. 1, Nr. 3, 1971© Raindance
Frank Gillette, Ira Schneider, »Wipe Cycle«, 1969, installation view, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, 1969© Frank Gillette, Ira Schneider
Exhibition view »Radical Software.The Raindance Foundation, Media Ecology and Video Art«© ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Felix Grünschloß
The »Raindance Foundation« (Ira Schneider, Beryl Korot, Frank Gillette) and Davidson Gigliotti (Videofreex) at ZKM© ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Felix Grünschloß
Reproductions of the journal »Radical Software« (1970–1974), ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017© ZKM | Karlsruhe
