Steve Seid
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Back to the Future of Television: National Center for Experiments in Television Preservation Project Progress Report Bibliography
Maria Troy and Steve Seid report a preservation project to locate, preserve and exhibit tapes from the National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET), an experimental TV lab established in 1967 at KQED with Rockefeller Foundation support; they were prompted by Brice Howard's 1972 book Videospace and scarce published material. They documented about 420 tapes in archives including Southern Methodist University, Media Study/Buffalo (now with Woody and Steina Vasulka), Stanford and UC Berkeley; SMU held multiple 2" quad tapes driven to Dallas in 1975 by former intern David Dowe, and the project plans cataloging, preservation and a touring exhibition.
TechArcheology2000 Preservation
On January 5 and 6, 2000, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art hosted "TechArcheology: A Symposium on Installation Art Preservation." This gathering was billed as an "opportunity to significantly advance the development of conservation practices for technology-based installation art." The approxim…
Videospace: The National Center for Experiments in Television, 1967-1975 Bibliography
Gallery exhibition: September 13- November 12, 2000. Curated by Steve Seid and Maria Troy.