{"id":2873,"title":"ETC History 2007 - 2008","kind":"etc_page","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2007-2008","version":"73c2975678903774e18fe36a6f5a66ffe00c0b8a626315f31c2d20f9ded1c68d","modified":"2011-04-13T15:46:05+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":[],"metadata":[],"citations":{"page":"\u0022ETC History 2007 - 2008.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2007-2008.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/2873.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":26657},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":736}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"History 2007-2008 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. This year we were able to offer residencies to 43 artists representing 10 states, as well as Austria, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Canada. Residents this year included Mara Alper (NY); Kristen Anchor (MD); Nurit Bar-Shai (NY); Jack Beck and Matt Costanza (NY); Eyal Nen-Zwi (Austria); Kjell Bjorgeengen (Norway); Peer Bode (NY); Torsten Burns (MA); Zarah Cabanas (NY); Andrew Demirjian (NJ); Emile Devereaux (NY); Rebecca Dolan (MO); Unn Fahlstrom (Germany); Brendan Ford (MA); Axel Forrester (SC); Madeleine Gallagher (NY); Alex Hahn (NY / Switzerland); Sarah Halpern (NY); Sachiko Hayashi (Sweden); Carolyn Kane (NY); Brett Kashmere and Astria Suparak (PA / OH); Peter Kerlin and Anna Sperber (NY); Zohar Kfir (NY); Kim Kielhofner (Canada); Zach Layton (NY); Justin Lincoln (VA); Kristin Lucas (CA); Darrin Martin (CA); Bianca Miller (NY); Monica Panzarino (NY); John Phillips (PA); Magaly Ponce (MA); Adi Shniderman and Merav Ezer (NY); Jeremy Slater (NY); Matt Underwood and Jenny Hyde (MA); Tor van Eijk (Norway); Sheri Wills (NY); Dan Winckler (NY). 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 Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern Art, Chelsea Art Museum, CEPA Gallery, Hallwalls, Monkeytown, Eyebeam and Issue Project Room. They have been selected for inclusion in exhibitions and festivals including Beyond/In Western New York, New York Experimental Video Festival, Ars Electronica, Dallas Video Festival and the 21st Stuttgart Film 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 a working committee along with representatives of the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, American Documentary/POV and Rhizome on the New York State Media Arts Map, a comprehensive portal website for media arts in the State, www.nymediaartsmap.org. Technical Assistance also provided support for the documentation of the Media History and Preservation Symposium, a day-long seminar organized by IMAP for the AMIA Conference. Also through Technical Assistance ETC assisted organizations to attend several conferences and festivals including the AMIA Annual Conference, the Image Permanance Institute, Common Ground, 54th Flaherty Film Seminar and 18th NAMAC Conference The Frontier is Here, among others. The Center serves as a SPONSORING ORGANIZATION for artists\u0027 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 2007-08 we helped artists to raise almost $ 85,000 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 McCarthy Foundation and private contributors. Sponsored 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 AwakeI, screened at the Sundance Film Festival; Abigail Child for By Desire; Slawomir Grunberg for the Emmy-award winning documentary School Prayer: A Community Divided; Barbara Hammer for Resisting Paradise; Ken Jacobs for NY Ghetto Fishmarket, 1903; and 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, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Jerome Foundation, and National Geographic. For 2007-08 the following artists have received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts. Vincent Grenier for The Shifting Alibi, inspired by the US presidential leadership\u0027s sell-out to the wealthy. Ken Jacobs for The Alps and the Jews, a portrait of Allied strategy in World War II, using the original film and 3-D effects. Amy Jenkins for Water Window, a site-specific installation and projection. Kristine Marx for Switch Back Slip Track, is a site-specific video installation that plays with visual perception and its relationship to architecture. Brian Milbrand for Euler, a portrait of a mathematician and the collision between the ordered systems of mathematics and the often chaotic systems in nature. Alan Sondheim for Alpine-Brooklyn Transpondance, an examination of the interstices of the analog/digital, flesh/grid, avatar-human. ETC also sponsored Pose Down, a feature film by Erika Yeomans, centered around the true-life stories of three former classmates. The work had its US premiere at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and in London at the Portobello Festival. We also supported America is Hard to Find, a documentary by Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir, a controversial and insightful look at two giants of the US anti-war movement, Philip and Daniel Berrigan, Catholic priests whose absolute faith and outrageous actions earned them a place on FBI\u0027s most wanted list. This work has received support from the McCarthy Foundation. We also supported their new work, Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement, a portrait of a devoted lesbian couple in a long-term relationship. 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 2008 supported 30 new media, film and sonic art, web projects, performances, site-specific installations and interactive projects. This year\u0027s requests totaled over $450,000. Finishing Funds is supported in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and by mediaThe foundation. For 19 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\u0027s 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 issues of war and democracy, autism, solar power projects in Congo, the violence in Rwanda, and a critique of documentary practice. The works in progress have received recognition and support from other organizations including the New York State Council on the Arts, LMCC, Arts Council of England, the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Capital, ReNew Media Arts Fellowship and the Lef Foundation. With an award in 2008 from mediaThe foundation, Finishing Funds is supporting 4 projects in new media and intermedia performance; the awards went to Eric Dunlap and Holly Daggers of Forward Motion Theater (Eyewash 3), Matt McBane (Onsdag, 6:45 AM), Jamie O\u0027Neil (Four Mad Humors) and Eric Singer and Taylor Kuffner (GamelaTron). The other recipients are Perry Bard (Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake); Janet Biggs (Vanishing Point); Elle Burchill (Mother Daughte); Scott Draves (Sheep Singles); Meredith Drum (The Tower, The Machine and The Double); Jim Finn (The Juche Idea); Slawomir Grunberg (The Story of an Autistic Savant); Michelle Handelman (Dorian); Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty (Here, Everything is Still Floating); Caroline Koebel (Flicker On Off); Eric Levine (Someone Hears a Shot); Elizabeth Mandel and Beth Davenport (Rose and Nangabire); Tara Mateik (Man Behind the Curtain); Cambria Matlow (Burning in the Sun); Carlos Motta (The Good Life); Elmer Ploetz (The Buffalo Punk Project); Kurt Ralske (The Inevitable); Zach Rockhill (This Side Down, Damn if I Know); Lynne Sachs (Invisible); Peter Shapiro for Zuvuya Collective (City of Dreams); Mark Street (Hidden in Plain Sight); Bec Stupak (Innocence); Avi Weider (Welcome to the Machine); John Weiksnar (Heave Ho); James Wilkins (Nature Mature). This year\u0027s peer review panel was composed of Zach Layton and Carolyn Tennant. Zach Layton is a composer, curator and new media artist based in NY. His work in experimental music and video investigates complex relationships and topologies created through the interaction of simple core elements like sine waves, minimal surfaces and kinetic visual patterns. Zach has received grants from the Netherlands America Foundation and the Jerome Foundation and is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. Carolyn Tennant received degrees from Hampshire College and the University at Buffalo, where she taught undergraduate courses in the Department of Media Study. In 2007 she curated media arts exhibitions at the Carnegie Arts Center (Phantom Power) and at the University at Buffalo Art Gallery (Haunted Screens, co-curated with Sandra Firmin). She is the Media Arts Program Director at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo. 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 2007-08 we provided assistance to 47 sponsoring organizations in 17 counties across New York State, assisting with appearances reaching audiences of over 16,000 people and with cable and web audiences are conservatively estimated at an additional 100,000. These organizations contributed almost $ 700,000 toward these media exhibition projects. This year\u0027s recipients included Anthology Film Archives, Alfred University Institute for Electronic Arts, Art in General, Art Mission, Auburn Public Theater, Bowery Arts and Science Ltd., Brooklyn Arts Council, Broome County Arts Council, CEPA, Children\u0027s Media Project, Chelsea Art Museum, Clifford Gallery, Cornell Cinema, Crandall Public Library, Creation Production Company, Dansology Inc., Dumbo Arts","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":26657,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}