{"id":2874,"title":"ETC History \u00A02008 - 2009","kind":"etc_page","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2008-2009","version":"09384be9aa114e742b0f7c300310a8d66582396470bf3a45fad33158a22a61b7","modified":"2011-04-13T15:46:37+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":[],"metadata":[],"citations":{"page":"\u0022ETC History \u00A02008 - 2009.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2008-2009.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/2874.ris"},"links":[{"label":"www.nymediaartsmap.org","url":"https://www.nymediaartsmap.org/","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":27003},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":814}],"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 ProgramThe 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, over 50 artists representing 11 states, as well as the UK and Canada worked in the Residency Program. About 29% are artists from outside New York State and about 25% live in Upstate NY\u0027s more rural communities. Residents this year included Rahne Alexander (MD); Mara Alper (NY); Kristen Anchor (MD); Nurit Bar-Shai (NY); Bebe Beard (MA); Katherine Behar (NY); Ann Bennett (NY); Allison Berkoy (NY); Nick Bontrager (TX); Debora Brown (NY); Toby Buhler (WI); Torsten Burns (MA); Dearraindrop (VA); Paul Donoghue (Ireland); Carola Dreidemie (TX); David Foedel (CO); Brendan Ford (MA); Larry Gartel (FL); Sabina Gruffat (WI); Alex Hahn (NY / Switzerland); Sarah Halpern (NY); Allison Holt (MA); Sara Hornbacher (GA); Chika Iijima (NY); Deborah Johnson with Siebren Versteeg, and Ben Vida (NY); Seth Kirby and Brock Monroe (NY); Caroline Koebel (NY); Zach Layton (NY); Katherine Liberovskya (Canada); Justin Lincoln (VA); Kristin Lucas (CA); Tara Mateik (NY); Benoit Maubray (Germany); Pete McPartland (UK); Evan Meaney (IA); Sang Um Nam (WI); Marisa Olson (NY); Ben Owen (NY); Monica Panzarino (NY); John Phillips (PA); Megan Roberts and Ray Ghirardo (NY); Kathleen Rugh (NY); Luke Schantz (NY); Samantha Silver (NY); Phil Stearns (CA); Fereshteh Toosi (IL); Justin Wiggan (UK); Roger Wyatt (NY); Frances Young (UK). 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 SF MoMA, Light Industry, Museo d\u0027arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce (Italy), Hallwalls, Monkeytown, Eyebeam and Issue Project Room. They have been selected for inclusion in exhibitions and festivals including Mix Festival, New York Experimental Video Festival, European Media Art Festival (Osnabruck), Migrating Forms Festival and Dumbo. 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. The site launched at Location One in Manhattan in December 2008. Through Technical Assistance ETC assisted organizations to attend several conferences and festivals including the AMIA Annual Conference, the IMAP preservation symposium From Legacy to Frontier at the Guggenheim Museum, the American Culture Association conference, and the 54th Flaherty Film Seminar among others. Artists\u0027 sponsorshipThe 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 2008-09 we helped artists to raise almost $ 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 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 Awake, 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 2008-09 the following artists have received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts. Skip Blumberg for a digital sequel to Nam June Paik; Courtney Grim for Eerie Tales, an installation about our fading industrial landscapes; Alex Hahn for Propitious Stars and the Master of the Staring Eyes, exploring the border between the outer space of perception and the inner space of thought, memory and dream; Shawn Lawson for Our Sardanapalus based on the Delacroix work and a critique of the contemporary condition; LoVid for Orbital Drop focused on renewable energy; Monteith McCollum for Path, which follows three individuals who work to effect big changes through small actions when dealing with modern mobility dilemmas; Laura Parnes for County Down, a portrait of a gated community; Gretchen Skogerson for Parking Signs a meditation on the isolation found in the infrastructure of contemporary American lives. 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. Grants ProgramSince 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 2009 supported 18 new media, film and sonic art, web projects, performances, site-specific installations and interactive projects. This year\u0027s requests totaled over $400,000 from artists in 20 counties across New York State. There was a 15% 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 20 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 health and environmental issues, the roles of memory and imagination in the creation of popular history, world financial and monetary systems, and the transformation of urban neighborhoods by rampant development. The works in progress have received recognition and support from other organizations including the New York State Council on the Arts, e-MobilArt Lab, Cycling 74, EMPAC, the Wexner Center, Eyebeam and Harvestworks. With an award in 2008 from mediaThe foundation, Finishing Funds is supporting Interference, an interactive installation by Thessia Machado. The other recipients are Nurit Bar-Shai (The Grafting Parlor); Stefani Bardin (The Omnivore\u0027s Pleasure); Zoe Beloff (Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society); Elan and Jonathan Bogarin (Invisible Murals); Todd Chandler (Flood); Reid Farrington (Gin and It); Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida (Room of the Sun); Stephanie Gray (You know they want to disappear Hell\u0027s Kitchen as Clinton); Kathy High (TransTamagotchi); Sawako Kato (Pocket Mirage); Edward Kihn (Minutes From A Counterrevolution); Barbara Lattanzi (Optical De-dramatization Engine); Shana Moulton and Nick Hallett (Whispering Pines 10); Diane Nerwen (Open House); Ruth Sergel (Magic Box); Karolina Sobecka (Sniff); Woody Sullender (Whispering Spectres). This year\u0027s peer review panel was composed of Renate Ferro of Ithaca and Tara Mateik of Brooklyn. Tara Mateik is an artist and educator living in New York City. In his videos and performances he typecasts himself as theoretical and cultural transvestites from pop music, competitive sport, and weird science. Mateik\u0027s work has been exhibited at venues that include The Guggenheim Museum, LACE, British Film Institute and the Oberhausen Film Festival. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Digital Cinema Studios in the Media Culture Department at CUNY Staten Island. Renate Ferro\u0027s artistic practice involves critical interactivity incorporating emerging technologies with the social and theoretical structures of the psychological and sociological condition. Her work is represented in collections across the United States as well as in Canada, France, Germany and Australia. Her work has been published in such journals as Diacritics, Theatre Journal, and Epoch. She is currently a co-moderator for the online new media listserve -EMPYRE-soft-skinned space and the art editor of the journal DIACRITICS published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Renate Ferro is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Cornell University. 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 2008-09 we provided assistance to 52 sponsoring organizations in 20 counties across New York State, where over 225 artists presented work to over 26,000 people, with additional cable and web audiences conservatively estimated at an additional 100,000. These organizations contributed almost $ 800,000 t","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":27003,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}