The essay focuses on the emergence of video technology at the blooming of the postmodern era. More specifically, it addresses the experimental use of analog video in the radical context of Bologna’s alternative scene during the early 1990s. Among these videos, we can find several experimental video projects – from Cane Capovolto, for instance –, which take part in a broader media context and a collective enunciation process. First of all, we try to answer a fundamental question: how can experimental video projects be part of the development of a “collective audiovisual intelligence”, nourished at the merging point between body and technology? Taking these elements as starting points, we will then consider how the traces left by media-activism and experimental video in Bologna can help us reconstruct that specific “media ecology”. These objects are strictly intertwined with the social movements from which they stemmed. More specifically, the essay addresses the correlation between activism and experimental video in Bologna, highlighting the aesthetic issues of the former and the political stances of the latter.