{"id":10638,"title":"ETC History 2010-11","kind":"history_page","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2010-11","version":"e0087712d0a471b1a975aa847728fdaa21c4dfd18fa5e0e24cf349759921281c","modified":"2026-09-19T01:41:36.1774923+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":[],"metadata":[],"citations":{"page":"\u0022ETC History 2010-11.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2010-11.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/10638.ris"},"links":[{"label":"www.nymediaartsmap.org","url":"http://www.nymediaartsmap.org","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":27367}],"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. In the summer of 2011 ETC will be ending the Residency, Grants and Sponsorship programs to focus on media education, history and preservation. 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 media The 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 70 applicants, 49 artists representing 11 states, as well as Ireland, Canada, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK worked in the Residency Program. Residents this year included Matthew Belanger and Marianne Petit (NY); Kjell Bjorgeengen (Stabekk, Norway); Peer Bode (NY); Yvonne Buchanan (NY); Julia Christiansen (OH); Carl Diehl (OR); Paul Donoghue (Ireland); Monica Duncan (CA); Unn Fahlstrom (Germany); David Galbraith (NY); Madeleine Gallagher with Adam Savje and Edward Davis (CA); Alex Hahn (NY and Switzerland); Allison Holt (MA); Sara Hornbacher (GA); Colleen Keough (MS); Seth Kirby and Brock Monroe (NY); Jason Livingston (NY); LoVid (NY); Kristin Lucas (NY); Timm Mason (WA); Blair Neal (NY); Seth Nemec (TX); Andrew Neumann (MA); Marisa Olson (NY); Ed Osborn (RI); Emily Pelstring (Canada); Sondra Perry (NJ); Leslie Raymond and Jason Stevens (TX); James Richards and Steve Reinke (UK); Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo (NY); Ron Rocco (NY); David Rosfeld, Maria Watts and Audrey Molinare (NY); Michael Sanders and William Boyle (OH): Jim Supanick and Josh Solondz (NY); Carolyn Tennant and JT Rinker (NY); Tor van Eijk (Norway); Eli Welbourne (TX). 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 Dumbo, Participant Gallery, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Flux Factory, and at the Dalton Gallery in Georgia, and the Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, and at VTape and Trinity Square Video in Canada and the Rag Factory in London. Works were presented at the NY Electronic Art Festival held at Governor\u0027s Island, the Electronic Arts Festival sponsored by Harvestworks, the 24th Annual NY Queer Experimental Film Festival and at the Louvre/Tuileries in Paris. Anthology Film Archives hosted a special Tribute to ETC. 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 57th Flaherty Film Seminar, Project Zero conference, New Media Consortium conference, SnowFlow, and the Non-Profit Technology Conference. 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 2010-11 we helped artists to raise over $80,000 in support of independent media projects. Completed projects have seen worldwide exhibition and distribution, and have been supported by the Arcus Foundation, 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 2010-11 the following artists have received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts. Jacqueline Goss for The Observers, a feature-length film portrait of the Mount Washington Weather Observatory in New Hampshire. Barbara Hammer for Maya Deren\u2019s Sink, a tribute to Maya Deren, the mother of avant-garde American film. The film evokes her creative spirit through a meditation on the architectural details of her homes. The film was screened at International Berlin Film Festival, Barcelona Womens Film Festival, Frameline Film Festival, and IFC Film Centre. Hammer received a Teddy Award for Best Short Film at the Berlinale. Monteith McCollum for The Good Game inspired by an 1850\u2019s text of outdoor children\u2019s games. Many old games were a blend of the practical with the fantastic. They were as much about teaching acceptable social norms as about entertainment. Greta Olafsdottif and Susan Muska received a major award from Arcus Foundation for Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement, which centers on the love story of Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer, and their very long journey and engagement to get civilly married. The film received Best Documentary at Vues d\u0027en Face, and screened at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Australia, and Identities Queer Film Festival as well as many other venues. 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 2011 supported 17 from around New York State whose work encompasses new media, film and sonic art, realized on the web, in performance, and as installations and interactive and immersive projects. For over 20 years, the program has provided nearly $600,000 directly to artists, to assist with the completion of diverse and innovative projects which challenge the traditional boundaries of media and new media arts. This year\u2019s requests totaled over $490,000 from over 200 artists in 20 counties across New York State. Finishing Funds is supported in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and by media The 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. Works have received support from other organizations such as NYSCA, Franklin Furnace and Greenwall Foundation. The works address a wide variety of topics including the relationship between power and desire, the notion of \u2018apology\u2019 as a media trope, the tension between human body and technological object and immersive environments. Recipients of Finishing Funds 2011 awards are Janet Biggs for Wet Exit, Heather Bursch for Bad Apology (Good Adjustments), Jonathan Cohrs for The Spice Trade Expedition, Kevin Cooley for Skyward, Micah Frank for Junction, Julie Harrison for Potato Wolf, LoVid \u2013 Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus for iParade #2: Unchanged When Exhumed, Koosil-ja Hwang for Oh Soul, Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty for Revolving Twilight, Ken Jacobs for Bitemporal Vision: The Sea, William Lamson for Hudson Flow, Jason Livingston for Interstate, Marisa Olson for Easy Listening, Matthew Ostrowski for Scarlet(t), Jacolby Satterwhite for Drawing Desire: Mother\u0027s Earthly Delights, Kelly Spivey for there is from nothing and Caspar Stracke for Circle\u2019s Short Circuit Redux. This year\u2019s peer review panel was composed of Jason Bernagozzi and Karen Brummund. Jason Bernagozzi is a video and new media artist living and working in Rochester, NY. Central to his artistic practice is a desire to investigate and experiment with the significant features of time-based media as an evolving world language. Video, sound and other electronic forms allow him to work out ideas as a real-time process that reflects the impermanent relationships between knowledge and dialogue. Currently working in Ithaca, Karen Brummund is a visual artist who works with ideas about drawing, time, and space. Like her work with Pezo von Ellrichsausen Architects in Chile, Brummund creates time-based drawings of architecture. Photocopies, drawings, or videos of the building cover the building itself. Each public installation inspires a new dialogue about the place, its history and representation. 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 2010-11 we supported 186 artists\u2019 appearances at 49 sponsoring organizations in 18 counties. Audiences at venues totaled over 26,000, while online audiences were estimated at 200,000. Organizations contributed $782,450 toward these media exhibitions, and requested a total of $43,950. The following organizations received support: Allied Productions, Anthology Film Archives, Art Center and Theater of Schenectady, Bard College, Brooklyn Arts Council, Broome County Arts Council, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Chez Bushwick, Cornell Cinema, Dance Films Association, Dumbo Arts Center, Electronic Arts Intermix, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Filmmakers Cooperative, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College, Foundation - Advance of Dance, Hallwalls, Hamilton College, Harvestworks, Here Arts Center, Ignivomous, Image Out, Institute for Electronic Arts, International Film Seminars, Linda Diamond Dance Ensemble, Loisaida Arts, Media Alliance / Sanctuary for Independent Media, Millennium Film Workshop, MIX, New Dance Alliance, Summer School for Media Arts, Outpost Artists Resources, Rattapallax, Rhizome at The New Museum, River","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":27367,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}