MEDIA SPACES Urban Media and Community TV Expert Meeting

Mark Saunders will be speaking at the Urban Media and Community TV Expert Meeting  Liverpool June 14th organised by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) and the Finnish Institute in London. The session, Artist Practices moderated by Laura Yates, will explore: How artists work with community media, how content is produced and community participation facilitated.  Also with contributions from Tamar Millen, Community Media Association and Alex Harrison, artist and filmmaker.

FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology)
88 Wood Street
Liverpool
L1 4DQ

An Urban media Practice: documentation, agitation, participation

Mark Saunders lecturing on the Urban Practices course at UCL:

An Urban media Practice: documentation, agitation, participation

8th February 3pm in Room 114, 26 Bedford Way, Department of Geography, UCL

Drawing on 30 years experience of independent and community based media practice in London, Brussels and Rostock Mark Saunders will describe the political and technological development of Spectacle’s practice and use of media in urban struggles for social justice in the built environment.

This will include, Despite TV, an innovative video co-operative in East London (1981-94), Jako Co-operative and the making of The Truth Lies in Rostock (90-98) establishing resident video groups in gentrifying Brussels (2000-2009) and long term video workshops on “regenerated” estates Silwood in Rotherhithe (10 years) and Marsh Farm Luton (15 years) and recent work on the London Olympics and Battersea Power Station.

Key Readings:

Olympics

Olympic project pages

Olympic blog

Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station project

Battersea Power Station blog

Suggested further readings:

Surviving Participation Fatigue< Erased Social Geography

Video in the City: Possibilities for Transformation in the Urban Space

Advocacy, Participation and Non Governmental Organisations in planning : A report and video on Spectacle’s APaNGO work