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Natalie Jeremijenko People

Natalie Jeremijenko is a new media artist who works at the intersection of contemporary art, science, and engineering. Her work takes the form of large-scale public art works, tangible media installations, single channel tapes, and critical writing. It investigates the theme of the transformative po…

Nathan Lyons on the Snapshot Bibliography

Nathan Lyons on the Snapshot. Winter 1992-1993. Cover: Over Here by Mona Jimenez: Computer ink jet print, color, 1992, 33 1/2" X 15 1/2," Text reads, "When I told you the most dangerous thing I'd be doing is standing up in a bathtub I was wrong- I haven't even seen a bathtub over here." Inside front…

National Association of Media Arts Centers: Evolution of NAMAC (1997) Groups

Chronology of the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) tracing developments from 1967 through the founding conference in Boulder, CO, May 29–31, 1980. It records antecedent studies and conferences including the Stanford Report (1967), the Mohonk Conference (1973), the Pittsburgh Conference (1978) and the Minnewaska/1979 National Conference; funding came from the Rockefeller Foundation, the John and Mary Markle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and publications include The Independent Film Community (1977) and the 1979 conference report. Organizers and leaders named include Virgil Grillo and Robert Haller; NAMAC approved bylaws, set objectives and identified 17 project areas including network feasibility, touring projects, surveys and information exchange.

1971 National Center for Experiments in Television Chronology

Satellite program of the National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET) established by Brice Howard at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. Also at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

1969 National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET) Chronology

KQED-TV's Experimental Television Workshop in San Francisco was renamed the National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET); funding came from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); Paul Kaufman served as director. NCET published a series of reports with contributions by Stephen Beck, Paul Kaufman, Richard Moore, Brice Howard, Marvin Duckler, Richard Stephens, Don Hallock and Bill Gwin, including titles such as Video Feedback, Direct Video and Talking Faces, Eating Time and Electronic Catharsis.

National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV: Description by Steve Seid and Maria Troy (2000) Groups

Steve Seid (Video Curator, Pacific Film Archive) and Maria Troy (Associate Curator, Wexner Center) wrote on June 17, 2000 about planned Pacific Film Archive exhibitions of NCET videoworks centered on The Videola (1973). They trace NCET from its 1967 founding at KQED as the Experimental TV Project with NEA and Rockefeller funding to its 1969 renaming and CPB support; Brice Howard is cited as director. They mention Graham Tape Delay and Beck's Direct Video Synthesizer, and note that the Pacific Film Archive will assemble compilations, publish a small catalogue by fall 2000.

1979 National Conference of Media Arts Centers Chronology

The Foundation for Independent Video and Film hosted the National Conference of Media Arts Centers at Lake Minnewaska, NY, April 25–27, 1979; funding was provided by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. A Steering Committee organized the meeting attended by representatives of 47 organizations and 12 governmental agencies, attendance was limited to 63 by a selection process and about 20% were from artist-based organizations. The conference addressed distribution, new technologies, media arts center development, broadcast access and funding; it charged a committee to form a national coalition of organizations from 11 geographic zones, with regional meetings held March–May 1980 and individual representation added by October 1980.

1965 National Endowment for the Arts Chronology

Congress creates the National Endowment for the Arts

1965 National Endowment for the Arts Chronology

Legislation creates the National Endowment for the Arts, which establishes The American Film Institute. One of the goals of the AFI is to preserve our heritage of film and television.

1980 National Endowment for the Arts Chronology

During the 1980s, the National Endowment for the Arts assists preservation efforts in several disciplines, including media arts, folk arts and dance

1971 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chronology

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, D.C., initiates Public Media Program; directors include Chloe Aaron and Brian O'Doherty. Other associates include Arthur Tsuchiya, Mary Smith

National Endowment for the Arts: Computer Interface with Video Synthesizer. Proposal Bibliography

Computer Interface with Video Synthesizers concentrates on the design and construction of an interface between computer and image synthesizer and the development of a computer language to permit the artist to enter the system to create images and notate compositions. Computer Interface with Video Sy…

National Endowment for the Arts: Proposal for Continued LSI-11 Microprocessor Research and Publication Bibliography

National Endowment for the Arts: Report for Nam June Paik Residency at ETC 1974-75 Bibliography

1981 National Latino Film and Video Festival Chronology

The first National Latino Film and Video Festival, organized by Lillian Jimenez at El Museo del Barrio, New York City

National Report on the Arts: A research report on the economic and social importance of arts organizations and their activities in the United States, with recommendations for a national policy of public and private support Bibliography

National Report on the Arts: A research report on the economic and social importance of arts organizations and their activities in the United States, with recommendations for a national policy of public and private support. Contents follow: Introduction, The Rising Interest in the Arts, NCCR's Natio…

1981 National Video Festival Chronology

National Video Festival: The State of the Art was presented at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, June 3–7, 1981; it was organized by The American Film Institute. The program presented a retrospective of Media Bus, Inc/Lanesville TV; TVTV; DCTV; Ant Farm; Optic Nerve; Videopolis; University Community Video; Global Village; NOVAC; The Kitchen; Long Beach Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; University Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art; and WNET/TV Lab.

1985 National Video Festival Chronology

The 1985 National Video Festival was held at The American Film Institute September 19-22, 1985; the program included videotapes by Skip Blumberg and Gary Hill. Essays were contributed by Colin McCabe, John Hanhardt, Lyn Blumenthal, Bruce Jenkins and Robert Rosen; program texts addressed Cinema/ Television Intersections, The New Technology, an International Television Profile, and a Festival Student Competition with an essay by John Giancola.

National Video Festival: The State of the Art Exhibition catalog Bibliography

Retrospective of Media Bus, Inc/Lanesville TV; TVTV; DCTV; Ant Farm; Optic Nerve; Videopolis; University Community Video; Global Village; NOVAC; The Kitchen; Long Beach Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Uniersity Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art; WNET/TV Lab Institution/Organizer: The A…

Navexos P 438 U.S. Navy Utah Model 60 MagicWire Wire Recorder Operating Manual and Parts Catalog Bibliography

Navexos U.S. Navy Utah Model 60 MagicWire Wire Recorder Operating Manual and Parts Catalog.

NEC Model PC-8023A-N Dot Matrix Printer User's Manual Bibliography

NEC Model PC-8023A-N Dot Matrix Printer User's Manual. Illustrated with diagrams and code tables.

Necole Zayatz People

Necole Zayatz is an interdisciplinary artist working in printmaking, painting and writing; she focuses on psychological dissemination through voice and video and has increasingly incorporated sensors into performance. She now works primarily in video and engages with performance and both verbal and non-verbal language. Her work has been shown at the European Media Arts Festival (Osnabruck, Germany) and the Friesland Media Arts Festival (Leeuwarden, The Netherlands); she is continuing graduate coursework in the Electronic Integrated Arts Program, NYSCC, at Alfred University.

Ned Sublette People

Ned Sublette was born in 1951 in Lubbock, Texas. Bilingual in English and Spanish since childhood, he grew up in Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico and moved to New York in 1976. His range of musical experience is unusually broad, ranging from original musicological field work in New Mexico, to conserv…

Neil Goldberg People

Neil Goldberg has been exhibiting single channel video works, installations and mixed media sculptures since 1992; his work has been presented at Curt Marcus Gallery, Exit Art, The Kitchen, Artists Space, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Armand Hammer Museum, PS 122, the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center and REEL NY. Website: neilgoldberg.com.

Neil Rolnick People

Neil Rolnick is Chair of the Arts Department and directs the iEAR Studios at RPI; he created the Master of Fine Arts program in Electronic Arts at RPI. He has been active as a composer and performer of computer music since the late 1970s and is currently working on a CD of music for voices and amplified chamber orchestra as well as a series of new solo performance pieces.