Events by Year

1992

Internet talk radio broadcasts

1992

The Film Society at Lincoln Center, New York City, establishes the International Video and Film Festival as annual program of the New York Film Festival

1992

US White House goes on line

1992

Veronica released by U of Nevada - a gopher search tool

1992

The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture established a national Video Preservation Task Force.

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1992

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1991

Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) votes to formalize as an individual-based professional association.

1991

Commodore Business Machines releases the CDTV (Commodore Dynamic Total Vision) package. It features a CD-ROM player integrated with a 7.16 MHz 68000-based Amiga 500 $1000

1991

"Song and Dance", Connie Coleman and ALan Powell, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia.

1991

In the Fall of 1991, CSNET service was discontinued having fulfilled its important early role in the provision of academic networking service.

1991

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1991 were made to: Benton Bainbridge Contact Joan Boccino Mom Makes Lasagna Bill & Mary Buchen Electric Village Christopher Burke El Patron Norman Cowie and Trish Rosen It's a Proud Day for America Jean de Boysson Teile Dich Nacht Bradley Eros and Jeanne Liotta Apocatopia Lluis Escartin 75 Drive Away Shalom Gorewitz Rock Dancing John Gwin Power Toy Barbara Hammer Naked Singularities Ron Jackson and Gregory Thomas Still Life Kakuna Kerina Where Boys Rule Bill Klaila Espresso Mini Wago Kreider Nostalgia Jill Kroesen The Bird Cynthia Lopez A base de nuestro sacrificioÖ Cara Mertes Details Sarah Montague In Time of the Breaking of Nations Mary Neininger Urban Ritual Pam Payne What We Do Mary Perillo Fractured Variations Nick Pietrocarlo and Roger Bourdeau On the Hair of a Buffalo Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo Disguised as a Different Life Form Ellen Spiro Party Safe! William Trainer and Timothy Masick here Panel: Shu Lea Cheang, Robery Doyle, and Philip Mallory Jones

1991

Gopher released at the U of Minnesota

1991

Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP 95LX hand-held computer

1991

The National Information Infrastructure (NII) was the product of the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991

1991

The Internet includes 5,000 networks in over three dozen countries, serving over 700,000 host computers used by over 4,000,000 people.

1991

Linus Torvalds develops Linux, a UNIX operating system variant, in Finland.

1991

Out of Control 91 exhibition at Ars Electronica. Ars Electronica '91 picked out the consequences of technological progress, the aspect of the dangers implicated in the increasing mechanization of life and the getting-out-of-control of technological systems as its central themes. During the festival, projects were launched dealing with global and individual disasters, environmental damage and natural disasters as a reaction to these developments. "Out of Control" was not an aesthetically "beautiful" festival, but aggressive, provocative, critical, disturbing. http://www.aec.at/archiv_project_en.php?id=8894

1991

Ralph Hocking proposes the "resurrection bus", a mobile service to clean and re-master old video.

1991

Riss: Kjell Bjorgeengen Videoskulpturer 1991 exhibition of work by Kjell Bjorgeengen

1991

Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Ralph Arlyck, Zeinabu irene Davis, Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines, Su Friedrich, Vanalyne Green, Louis Hock, Peter Hutton, Bill Jersey, Zydnia Nazario, Warren Sonbert, Janice Tanaka, Keiko Tsuno, Bill Viola, Marco Williams

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