Herskowitz, Richard
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50 (Fifty) Years of Flaherty: Inspired Filmmaking Bibliography
50 (Fifty) Years of Flaherty: Inspired Filmmaking. Contents follow: Acknowledgments, The 50th Flaherty- ONWARD by Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado, Curator's Remarks by Susan Oxtoby, 50th Anniversary Conceptual Framework by Richard Herskowitz, Program Notes and Schedule, Filmmaker and Presenter Biograph…
Media Buff: Media Art of Buffalo Being In Between Bibliography
Survey situating Buffalo as a mediating center between New York City and the wider world and documenting its independent media community centered at SUNY Buffalo's Center for Media Study, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and the collective Squeaky Wheel (founded 1985). The text profiles materialist practitioners (Paul Sharits, Hollis Frampton, Tony Conrad, Woody and Steina Vasulka) investigating film/video materiality; postmodern performers and installation artists (Barbara Lattanzi, Julie Zando) addressing spectator relations; and Squeaky Wheel's access initiatives (one Sony camcorder, Super 8, Video 8, Pixelvision toy camera, Axlegrease cable show, work-in-progress sessions). It also notes institutional support including the New York State Council on the Arts and exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, and references programming and criticism from Media Alliance, Chris Hill, Gerald O'Grady, and others.
The School of Experimental Viewing from Edison Black Maria Film and Video Festival Bibliography
A SUNY Binghamton graduate and programmer active since 1971 reports that the Black Maria Film and Video Festival tours experimental films and video art to remote locales, including Central/Western New York. He notes a Central New York Programmers Group and cites regional centers such as Owego Experimental TV Center, Portable Channel (Rochester), Ithaca Video Project and Media Study/Buffalo. He credits SUNY Binghamton—recently turned twenty—faculty including Ken Jacobs and alumni with shaping programming and pedagogy, and names works such as Tom Tom the Piper's Son and other historical and contemporary experimental films.