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Meeting April 15, 1978 Bibliography

Meeting April 15, 1978: Meryl Blackman, Peer Bode, Paul Davis, Ralph Hocking, Sherry Miller, Steina Vasulka, Walter Wright, Neil Zusman. Meryl Blackman, Peer Bode, Paul Davis, Ralph Hocking, Sherry Miller, Steina Vasulka, Walter Wright, Neil Zusman.

1996 Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation Chronology

Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation, by Jim Hubbard, with assistance from Mona Jimenez, is published by Media Alliance.

Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation: A Progress Report on Initiatives within the Media Arts Field by Media Alliance Preservation

Media Alliance (founded 1979) is a New York State advocacy and service organization for independent media arts that led a 1991 national video survey and symposium with NYSCA, supported Deirdre Boyle's Video Preservation (1993), and applied to NEH for a cooperative catalog of over 8,000 titles across twelve New York institutions. The report documents Playback 1996 organized with BAVC (March 29–30, 1996) at the Museum of Modem Art with Getty and Andy Warhol Foundation funding, NAMID/FileMakerPro cataloging pilots producing over 1,800 records, and BAVC remastering and cleaning services for obsolete formats. Jim Hubbard authored the report and created Anthology Film Archives' first computer catalog under NAMID and a Jerome Foundation grant.

Meg Knowles People

Meg Knowles is an internationally exhibited documentary and experimental video maker. She has a B.A. from Vassar College in Art History (1982), a Master's Degree from the University at Buffalo in Media Study and Art History (1994), and an MFA from Temple University in Film Video Arts. Venues that ha…

Megan Michalak People

Buffalo, New York-based multi-media artist Megan Michalak will complete KINOMIC Redistribution System (kinetic+economic), created with Stephanie Rothenberg; described as an educational, interactive game parodying the World Bank and WTO, it will be presented as an installation in August 2009 at Gallery Titanik in Turku, Finland. Her work has been presented at Smack Mellon Gallery (NYC), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Silver Lake Film Festival (Los Angeles), the SF Cinemateque and Dance Theater Workshop. She received a NYSCA Individual Arts Award for work in film and media; website: http://meganmichalak.com/home.html.

Megan Roberts People

Megan Roberts is a composer and media artist and Raymond Ghirardo is a sculptor and media artist; they have collaborated in video, sound sculpture, installation and performance for the past 20 years. Roberts was born in 1952 in Hempstead, NY and received an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Video from Mills College Center for Contemporary Music in 1977; Ghirardo was born in 1953 in Oakland, CA and received an M.F.A. in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1978; both are Associate Professors at Ithaca College. Their record lists residencies and grants (including Prague May 2003, Caldera Jan 2003, MacDowell March 2002), awards including the Tokyo Video Festival Grand Prize (1981), numerous commissions, installations, performances, broadcasts and publications from 1975–2003.

2000 Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo Chronology

Installation Works by Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo. Exhibited at Charleston Heights Arts Center (NC), at Las Vegas Cultural Arts Center (NV) and at Handwerker Gallery (Ithaca, NY). 2000

2000 Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo Chronology

Installation Works by Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo. Exhibited at Charleston Heights Arts Center (NC), at Las Vegas Cultural Arts Center (NV) and at Handwerker Gallery (Ithaca, NY).

Melanie Crean People

Melanie Crean is a media artist, teacher, curator and producer in Brooklyn. She teaches experimental video and software; as Eyebeam Director of Production she founded and managed a cooperative studio supporting socially based media and also worked at the MTV Digital Television Lab on special effects and animation. She produced documentaries in Nepal, India and the US on women trafficking and HIV/AIDS along trucking routes in South Asia; she holds a BA from Brown and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and has received fellowships and commissions including Art in General and Harvestworks.

Melanie Printup Hope People

Melanie Printup Hope is of Tuscarora descent and was raised on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in Western New York; she earned a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an MFA in electronic arts from Renssalear Polytechnic Institute. Her video and installation work has been shown widely throughout the US and Europe, and she has received recognition from the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Jerome Foundation and the Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund.

Melinda Barlow People

Melinda Barlow is Associate Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder; she joined CU in 1996 after teaching at New York University, the School of Visual Arts, and Queens College, City University of New York. She edited Mary Lucier: Art and Performance (2000, Johns Hopkins University Press) and is a film and video historian specializing in contemporary independent women film and videomakers; her articles have appeared in journals including Camera Obscura and Art Journal. She received the Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Award and a CU Center for the Humanities and the Arts Fellowship in 2005; she founded the Leah Kelly Memorial Award and has a forthcoming book, Lost Objects of Desire (University of Minnesota Press).

Melinda Hunt People

Melinda Hunt is a director who has independently produced multi-media works—video, photography, installation, public art, performance, theater and writing—since completing her M.F.A. at Yale University in 1985; she has directed The Hart Island Project for 15 years. Her book Hart Island was published with photographer Joel Sternfeld by Scalo in 1998 in German and English. She has received numerous awards, including from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Canada Council and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts; she received the Moxie Docs competition award in 2003.

Melinda Rackham People

Melinda Rackham is an artist and writer based in Sydney, Australia; she has worked online since the mid 1990s from the domain www.subtle.net, creating imaginal and hypertextual sites that explore online identity, locality, sexuality, community, viral symbiosis and trans species relations. She is undertaking a Phd in Virtual Media at College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales; her writing has appeared in Ctheory, Culture Machine, Leonardo and Realtime, and she has presented at Contagion (Australia), Invencao (Brazil) and Consciousness Reframed (Wales). She has held residencies at Polar Circuit (Finland) and Discovery at Banff Center for the Arts (Canada); her award-winning web works have been included in Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, Perspecta, Transmediale, File, Art Entertainment Network, The Montreal Biennale, European Media Art Festival and ISEA.

Melissa Dubbin People

Melissa Dubbin studied at the College of Santa Fe with Kit Fitzgerald and Gene Youngblood; she received a Sound Art Fellowship from Media Alliance and was artist in residence at Smack Mellon Studios. Her collaborative work with Aaron Davidson was presented internationally at venues including Rhizome Remix@Bronx Museum of the Arts (NYC); they collaborated with LOT/EKarchitecture, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Morton Subotnick and Joan LaBarbara, held a residency at the Experimental TV Center in Owego and received a New York State Council on the Arts award in 2003; website: http://www.dubbin-davidson.com/.

Melissa Pearl Friedling People

In addition to making her own quirky, humorous work, Mel Friedling teaches film theory and film production, most recently at Syracuse University. She is also the author of Recovering Women: Feminisms and the Representation of Addiction (2000). She'll present a program of recent work including Merced…

Memories - 25 Years of the Experimental Television Center Bibliography

Ann-Sargent Wooster's catalog essay for the 25th Anniversary exhibition at Art in General (Nov 8–Jan 25, 1997) recounts the Experimental Television Center's history; the Center grew from the Student Experiments in Television program begun in 1969 at SUNY Binghamton by Ralph Hocking and formally organized in 1971, relocating to Owego in 1979 and hosting roughly 1,200 artists in 24-hour residencies. The Center constructed a Paik/Abe video synthesizer under Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe for WNET's TV Lab, developed image-processing hardware by David Jones and artist-oriented software interfacing with Amiga computers circa 1975; reminiscences name participants including Nam June Paik, Bill T. Jones and Doris Chase.

Memory and Hope (1996-2006) Bibliography

Sherman presented this talk, adapted for the New York State Media Festival at Syracuse University in April 1996, arguing that memes will drive cultural evolution and that emerging digital technologies form extended phenotypes. He traced media and network milestones from 1966 to a projected 2006 (ARPA Net, Betamax, CNN, IBM PC, NSFnet, WWW, Bell Core video) and discussed video art, analog-to-digital transitions, real-time digital ambitions, and video-on-demand. He described his involvement with an Ars Electronica think-tank, a 1979 TV Ontario episode, the Canada Council Computer-Integrated Media grant (1983) and curating digital works for the 1986 Venice Biennale, and he urged attention to personal agents, encryption and the integration of human emotion into digital media.

Mendi and Keith Obadike People

Mendi + Keith Obadike make conceptual sound and internet-based works; projects address new media narratives and social filtering and include The Uli Suite (1998-99), Sexmachines (2000), Blackness for Sale (2001), Keeping Up Appearances (2001) and The Interaction of Coloreds (2002). Recent and upcoming projects include Pink of Stealth, Mendi's book Armor and Flesh, TaRonda Who Wore White Gloves (for Franklin Furnace and the Rockefeller New Media Art Award) and an opera developed for Toni Morrison's Atelier at Princeton. They have received awards from Franklin Furnace and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts among others; Keith holds a BA from North Carolina Central and an MFA from Yale; Mendi holds a BA from Spelman and is completing a PhD at Duke.

Meredith Drum People

Meredith Drum is a cinema artist who produces experimental fictions and journalistic short-form videos; her narrative work has screened at Anthology Film Archives, Participant Inc., Ocularis and Monkeytown. Her short documentaries have been published on the NYTimes Tmagazine, Good Magazine and by A.I.R. Gallery at Fales Library. She is currently making a short about Natalie Jeremijenko and the toxins in Newtown Creek for Cinelan, one entry in a series of documentaries about artists working with environmental science.

meta media Takahiko Iimura - film, video, CD-ROM installations - Bibliography

meta media Takahiko Iimura - film, video, CD-ROM installations. Text in Japonese. Section headings follow: Film Installation (1 SEC and Infinity at the Instituto Giapponese di Cultura, Roma, 1997), Video Installation (As I See You See Me, Insituto Giapponese di Cultura, Roma, 1997), CD-ROM (CD-ROM "…

Metaphysical Structuralism: The Videotapes of Bill Viola. Notes for videodisc edition Bibliography

Method Crying: A new book by Terry Cuddy Bibliography

Method Crying: A new book by Terry Cuddy.

Micah Frank People

Micah Frank is a New York sound programmer who performs with avant-garde acts and supplies music for television; his work spans live electronics, sonification art and sound design for leading music manufacturers. As Kamoni he produces jungle beats and sample-based material using percussion hardware controllers, synthesizers and software, and he performs and co-produces with Atarah Valentine; he has performed across the US, Canada and Europe. He founded Puremagnetik in 2006 and is its lead developer; he has contributed factory libraries to Native Instruments and Ableton and has been featured in Electronic Musician and Sound on Sound.

Michael Bell-Smith People

Michael Bell-Smith is a New York-based artist whose work focuses on popular culture mediated through popular technology. He has exhibited on the Internet and at traditional venues including Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK); Foxy Production (New York); [plug.in] (Basel, Switzerland); Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool, UK); and PROJECKT 0047 (Berlin, Germany). He has lectured on copyright and appropriation at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and appeared on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC; his work has been featured in the New York Times, Wired (online), and Entertainment Weekly (online).

Michael Betancourt People

Michael Betancourt is a theorist and interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited cinema since 1992 and works across film, video and digital formats; he develops kinetic works that function as photographs or movies. His experiments with David Jones' audio-video synthesis instruments at the Experimental Television Center (Oswego, New York) informed his practice. He co-founded The Experimental Show (2001), ran an on-line Censorship Project, engaged ACLU Internet censorship cases via Art on the Net from 1997, adapted open-source principles into the Free Art Project and holds a Ph.D. and an MA.