The course focuses on the cultural and political issues of video, problematized by artists who have made it a tool for investigation. In the context of the countercultural movements of the 1960s, the experimentation with this new technique establishes utopian alternatives to authoritarian modes of media communication. While participatory television projects integrate diverse publics, feminists use cameras and videotapes to appropriate stereotyped roles naturalized by advertising and popular cinema. At the intersection of various practices, the act of capturing one's image while acting enables the performance of alternative behaviors. In 1980, artists develop an anthropological approach to audiovisual productions in order to dismantle the mythologies of technological progress and their promises of democratization. More recently, the consolidation of knowledge and its reduction to compiled data are confronted with anomalies that escape recognition patterns.