Media Ecology and Cultural Climate Change

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Research Article| March 01 2020 Media Ecology and Cultural Climate Change: A Weekend with the Videofreex Liz Flyntz Liz Flyntz Liz Flyntz is a curator, writer, artist, and information architect. She's currently researching the history and future of food system collapse at the Prelinger Archives. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2020) 47 (1): 19–33. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.471005 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Liz Flyntz; Media Ecology and Cultural Climate Change: A Weekend with the Videofreex. Afterimage 1 March 2020; 47 (1): 19–33. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.471005 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search In 1971 a group of young radicals moved out of their SoHo loft and to Maple Tree Farm, a rambling 27-room boarding house in Lanesville, a tiny town in Upstate New York. They called themselves the Videofreex, and they operated as a collective, collaborative media-production unit. Two years before this exodus from New York City, in 1969, two future Freex, David Cort and Parry Teasdale, met at the Woodstock Music Festival. They immediately recognized each other as fellow travelers by virtue of the 19 fact that they both had early video cameras. While living in the loft, rented by Videofreex Mary Curtis Ratcliff, the group had been hosting parties and video screenings where they would play back video to each other or an array of amazed audience members. They also managed to be hired by CBS to make a “youth culture” TV magazine series pilot titled Subject to Change (1969).... You do not currently have access to this content.