{"id":10637,"title":"ETC History 2009-10","kind":"etc_page","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2009-10-0","version":"9291c9727cd64f464331753c2a910bc3229a762fbb445f05dbb0dfb48ee57b0e","modified":"2016-05-08T10:18:27+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":[],"metadata":[],"citations":{"page":"\u0022ETC History 2009-10.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2016. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2009-10-0.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/10637.ris"},"links":[{"label":"www.nymediaartsmap.org","url":"http://www.nymediaartsmap.org","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"http://migratingmedianet.org","url":"http://migratingmedianet.org","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":26209},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":862}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"The EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER was founded in 1971, an outgrowth of a media access program established by Ralph Hocking at Binghamton University in 1969; today, the Center continues to provide support and services to the media arts community. We offer an international Residency Program, Grants to individuals and media organizations, and Sponsorship assistance for independent media and film artists, as well as an online resource the Video History Project. RESIDENCY PROGRAM The RESIDENCY PROGRAM offers self-directed creative time to mediamakers from throughout the country. Since 1971 we have assisted over 1500 artists in the creation of works using new electronic video, sonic and digital technologies. Each year about 40 artists are invited to work in the studio, offering in a retreat-like workshop environment, access to an image processing system, intensive individualized instruction and time for exploration and personal creative growth. The system is a hybrid tool set, encouraging artists to create interactive relationships between older historically important analog instruments and new digital technologies, and to explore boundaries and intersections within narrative, documentary and experimental forms. With assistance from mediaThe foundation for the last several years, we have been able to continue to advance the digital components of the imaging system, incorporating several Apple computers, other sonic and control modules by Doepfer, interactive software including Max/MSP, Jitter and Pluggo as well as DVD authoring and editing software. From over 80 applicants, 47 artists representing 13 states, as well as the UK, Norway, Sweden and Canada worked in the Residency Program. Residents this year included 99 Hooker (NJ); Mara Alper (NY); Kristen Anchor (MD); Elise Baldwin (CA); Marko Bandobranski (Sweden); Allison Berkoy (NY); Kjell Bjorgeengen (Norway); Jenna Bliss (NY); Peter Byrne (NY); Lana Caplan (MA); Juan Cisneros (TX); Dearraindrop (NY); Cecelia Dougherty (CT); Carola Dreidemie (TX); Darren Floyd (NY); Benj Gerdes (NY); Tim Geraghty (NY); Alex Hahn (NY / Switzerland); Pamela Hawkins (NY); Allison Holt (MA); Sara Hornbacher (GA); Peter Kerlin (NY); Meg Knowles (NY); Katherine Liberovskaya (Canada); Justin Lincoln (VA); Terese Longva (Norway); Al Margolis (NY); Timm Mason (WA); Brian Milbrand (NY); Lee Montgomery (NM); Jared Nielsen (CA); Rebekka Palov (NY); Laura Paolini (Canada); Blithe Riley (NY); Julie Rooney (IN); Kamran Sadeghi (NY); Luke Schantz (NY); Tomas Stark (Sweden); Samuael Topiary (NY); Matt Underwood (RI); Roger Wyatt (NY); Frances Young (UK); Dustin Semel (OR); Greg Zifcak (CA). Tapes produced at the Center were again included in exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe and on the Web. Recent exhibition venues have included Light Industry, Hallwalls, Le Petit Versailles Garden, Eyebeam and Issue Project Room as well as galleries in London, Paris, Berlin and Rome. They have been selected for inclusion in exhibitions and festivals including Ladyfest:Toronto, Holland Video Festival, Mixology at Roulette, Boston Cyberarts Festival, the ArcheTime Video Festival, Video_Dumbo and the Yogya International Media Art Festival. Tapes are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, Filmmakers Coop, Drift Distribution, Facets, Microcinema International, Women Make Movies and many others. Artists working at the Center this year have received awards and recognition from State Arts Councils and numerous private foundations and have received awards and citations in festivals around the world. Focused on our commitment to EDUCATION, we also participate in online salons hosted by media arts, information and advocacy groups. Through the Media Arts Technical Assistance Program we work with organizations from all regions of New York State to develop the media arts field. The Center also serves on an advisory for the New York State Media Arts Map, a comprehensive portal website for media arts in the State, www.nymediaartsmap.org. The website is produced by Rhizome and launched at Location One in Manhattan in December 2008. Through Technical Assistance ETC helped organizations attend several conferences and festivals including the AMIA Annual Conference, the 56th Flaherty Film Seminar, Art House Convergence at the Sundance Institute, a membership convening of the Central NY Programmers Group, International Documentary Festival and the NAMAC Leadership Institute. ARTISTS\u2019 SPONSORSHIP The Center serves as a SPONSORING ORGANIZATION for artists\u2019 projects in the electronic and film arts, providing support services, assistance with development and fiscal and administrative management services. We sponsor about 20 projects each year. In 2009-10 we helped artists to raise over $ 100,000 in support of independent media projects. Completed projects have seen worldwide exhibition and distribution, and have been supported by the NYS Council on the Arts, the Open Meadows Foundation, the Silverman Foundation and private contributors. Past artists have included Irit Batsry, winner of the prestigious Bucksbaum Award for Neither There Nor Here, with a world premiere at the International Film Festival, Rotterdam and inclusion in the Whitney Biennial; Alan Berliner for The Sweetest Sound, featured on POV and for Wide Awake, screened at the Sundance Film Festival; Skip Blumberg for Untitled, a reimagining of a tape created by the artist in 1976; Slawomir Grunberg for the Emmy-award winning documentary School Prayer: A Community Divided; Alex Hahn for Propitious Stars and the Master of the Staring Eyes; Kristin Lucas for Supervision. These projects have been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, Funding Exchange, NVR and the Distribution Fund, Creative Capital, New York Foundation for the Arts, Swiss Cultural Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and Khalid Shoman Foundation. For 2009-10 the following artists have received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts. Benton Bainbridge for Brother Island, an experimental documentary installation, also supported by Eyebeam; Alan Berliner for Arithmetic, an installation that uses the basic functions of mathematics to explore a new way of thinking about the relationships between sounds and images; Janet Biggs for Fade to White, an exploration of loss and change in the high Arctic, premiering at Connor Gallery in Washington, and featured at the Mint Museum of Art (NC); Herb Brown for Oil and TV, an installation which updated his early 1960s paintings on glass installed in front of working video monitors which is distributed by BLT Gallery in New York; Ken Jacobs for The Nervous System, restorations and reimaginations of live cinema performances; Jeffrey Lerer for The Gilbert Hotel Project, a multidisciplinary immersive installation featuring the complete animation, along with drawings and sculptures; Jason Livingston for Interstate, an experimental revisioning of an early open-reel video documentation of the Onondaga Nation\u0027s fight against New York State; Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir for Edie \u0026 Thea: A Very Long Engagement, a documentary portrait of a devoted lesbian couple in a long-term relationship. The work has received support from the Silverman Foundation and the Open Meadow Foundation in addition to NYSCA. The work has been shown at the Frameline Film Festival, the Hamptons International Film Festival and Image Out among many others and won numerous awards. GRANTS PROGRAM Since 1989 the Film and Electronic Arts GRANTS PROGRAM, has awarded over one million dollars to individual artists and arts organizations in the State. Finishing Funds 2010 supported 22 new media, film and sonic art, web projects, performances, site-specific installations and interactive projects. This year\u2019s requests totaled over $550,000 from artists in 25 counties across New York State. There was a 6% increase in the number of applicants. Finishing Funds is supported in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and by mediaThe foundation. For 21 years, the program has provided funds directly to New York State artists to assist with the completion of diverse and innovative projects which challenge the traditional boundaries of the media. This year\u2019s awards recognize work which is very diverse, encompassing web projects, animation, generative systems, public art and performances, and include experimental, documentary and narrative cinema and the sonic arts. The works approach a wide variety of topics including abolitionist movement in NYS, architecture, data as sonic information, visions of utopia, gays in Poland, portraiture and interactive theater. The recipients of Finishing Funds 2010 awards are Kai Beverly-Whittemore (Body of Work), Michael Bosworth (installation for Beyond/In Western NY), Karen Brummund (Virtual Installation on the Built Environment), James Case Leal (The Republic of Heaven), Alex Chechile (Data Decay/Rebirth), Toni Dove (Lucid Possession), Max Goldfarb (Deep Cycle, Mobile Broadcast), Dara Greenwald (Spectres of Liberty: The Great Central Depot in the Open City), Slawomir Grunberg (Coming Out in Poland), Eunjung Hwang (Future Creatures), Jill Johnson-Price (Rheumers), Ernesto Klar (Luzes relacionais), William Lamson (A Burning Line), Marie Losier (The Ballad of Genesis P-orridge), Adriel Luis (USBuiLLD), Jamie O\u2019Neil (Skippisox), David Sampliner (My Own Man), Paul Slocum (Conway\u0027s Game of Life Spacetime Visualization), Candace Thompson (Other People), Diertra Thompson (The New Sentence) and Mark Tribe (The Dystopia Files). With an award from mediaThe foundation, Finishing Funds is supporting an interactive performance Liminal by Angie Eng. This year\u2019s peer review panel was composed of Meg Knowles of Buffalo and Kristin Lucas of Beacon. Meg Knowles is an award winning documentary and experimental video artist whose work has been screened at festivals, galleries and museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Dallas Film Festival, the Athens International Film \u0026 Video Festival as well as on Free Speech TV and PBS. Meg is a Director and Producer for the Termite TV Collective and an Assistant Professor of Media Production at Buffalo State College. Kristin Lucas is a social practice artist who works primarily with electronic media. She is a faculty member of the Studio Art program at Bard College. Presentation Funds provides support to New York State organizations for in-person appearances by film and media artists. The program brings innovative cinema programming, including independent film and media art, as well as audio installation works to new audiences and to underserved communities in all regions of the State. In addition, the program assists organizations which serve special constituencies and encourages the development of new presentation venues throughout the State. In 2009-10 we provided assistance to 55 sponsoring organizations in 20 counties across New York State, where over 200 artists presented work to over 20,000 people, with additional cable and web audiences conservatively estimated at an additional 100,000. These organizations contributed over $ 700,000 toward these media exhibition projects. This year\u2019s recipients included Abrons Art Center, Anthology Film Archives, Anti-Social Music, Artists Space, Auburn Public Theater, Bronx Museum of Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, Broome County Arts Council, Chelsea Art Museum, Chocolate Factory Theater, Cornell Cinema, Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, Crandall Public Library, Culture Push, Deep Listening Institute, Dumbo Arts Center, Electronic Arts Intermix, Emily Harvey Foundation, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Felice Lesser Dance Theater, Filmmakers Cooperative, Forward Motion Theater, Foundation for the Advance of Dance, free103point9, George Eastman House, Hallwalls, Harvestworks, Here Arts Center, Ignivomous, Image Out, Institute for Electronic Arts, International Film Seminars, Issue Project Room, Kine","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":26209,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}