Canadian video artist/entrepreneur Stephen marshall is creating "an alternative universe to television" an advertising-free, global forum for independent content. His quarterly video zine, Channel Zero, will bypass the broadcast system entirely and be distributed via newsstands, retail outlets, and soon the Web (www.channel-zero.com/). Stylistically, it's an unlikely mix of 60 Minutes, Negativland, and MTV what Marshall calls "applying the MTV culture to an intellectual basis." He's betting Channel Zero's mix of media criticism, grassroots reporting, and high-tech funk will win a global audience and perhaps inspire a new generation of video activists. "Television," he says, "is a palette that hasn't even been touched."
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