Dan Graham

In Homes for America, 1965, Graham travelled the United States documenting prefabricated homes. This body of work was intended for Esquire magazine but finally ended up being published in Arts Magazine in 1966. Both Graham’s method of gathering images and the intended context for these images adopts and manipulates journalistic and media strategies and contexts, playing with different languages of information.

Dan Graham, Home for America, 1965/6

Clifford Geertz

A quote from aesthetic journalism: ‘Clifford Geertz…proposed considering culture (in this case art) being like a map; functioning both as a model of -  describing phenomena, processes and events – and a model for, providing the instructions to build a reality.’ pp. 70.

GNN

The Guerrilla News Network is an alternative to mainstream news broadcasting. Geert Lovink has said of GNN ‘The political videos of Guerrilla news network are a challenging affair in terms of their content, aesthetics and distribution. Deeply hybrid, GNN is crossing boundaries in such a professional – and easy – manner, it almost seems that we have landed in the perfect, tactical media future’. http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/04-crisis-media/37geert.pdf