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Grupo Alavío (Militant media collective, Argentina) is a direct action and video collective working in Argentina. Since the early 1990's the group has been producing audiovisual material as a tool to create a new working class subjectivity. As a video collective they become available to the demands of organizations in struggle and often times the videos take on a life of their own. The factory occupied by workers, the changing room of transport, a wildcat strike, a land squat or a barrio are often the first place where they premier their documentaries. Alavío uses the camera as a political organ and as a tool, which the protagonists in the films appropriate and use to organize.

 ViVe (Television channel, Venezuela),  which stands for Visión Venezuela, is an educational, cultural and informational public television station that encourages participative and protagonistic democracy and Latin American integration. Broadcasting in harmony with the political, social and economic model established in the constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, ViVe's programming is produced for (and by) the subjects and the actors who are exercising their emancipatory freedom to create and produce. In ViVe the protagonists are the communities, el Pueblo, the millions of Venezuelans and Latin Americans that are invisible to empire and its forms of cultural dominance.

Born in Korea Kim, Myoung Joon (Media activist, Korea), has been active in the labor media activism, implementation and legislation of public access TV, advocacy on issues such as the independent film and video, documentary, internet, etc. He is now working in the field of research, training and advocacy as a president of local media center MediACT (http://www.mediact.org) and a member of independent labor video activist organization Labor News Production (http://www.lnp89.org).

Source: Foundation Gwangju Biennale