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  1. New Wave on the Airwaves Bibliography

  2. 1977 New Work in Abstract Video Imagery Chronology

    New Work in Abstract Video Imagery was exhibited at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse from 12/1 to 1/2/77; it was curated by Richard Simmons of the Everson Museum and listed as available for travel. Photo documentation by Carol Goss; the exhibition included works by Drew Browning, Barbara Buckner, Tom DeFanti, Gary Demos, Bill Etra, Rod Fountain, Carl Geiger, Carol Goss and other artists. The exhibition traveled to the Flint Institute (MI) and the Tweed Museum (MN).

  3. New Work in Abstract Video Imagery Bibliography

    New Work in Abstract Video Imagery is an anthology of videotapes produced 1973–1977 and organized for the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse in 1977; it documents experiments with television, magnets, videosynthesizers, lasers and computers and includes works by Nam June Paik (magnet experiments; Paik/Abe videosynthesizer), Shuya Abe, Aldo Tambellini (Black Spiral, 1968), Peter Van Riper, Mary Lucier (Fire Writing), John Cage (Suite 212), Ron Hays and many Chicago-based practitioners. Production centers cited include the New Television Laboratory at WGBH, the Sandin Image Processor at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Experimental Television Center (Binghamton) and Bell Labs; the New York State Council on the Arts provided support. The exhibition was organized by Richard Simmons as an artists' cooperative with revenues divided equally among participants.

  4. 1977 "New Work in Abstract Video Imagery" Chronology

    Exhibition New Work in Abstract Video Imagery at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 12/1-1/2/77; curated by Richard Simmons of the Everson Museum and available for travel. Photo by Carol Goss; included works by Barbara Buckner, Carl Geiger, Carol Goss, Gary Hill, Ralph Hocking, Don McArthur, Joseph Scala, Patsy Scala, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka and Walter Wright.

  5. 1970 New York Foundation for the Arts Chronology

    New York Foundation for the Arts was created to provide low-interest loans to arts organizations to sustain them between the time the NYSCA contract was awarded and the money arrived; by 1984 NYFA had expanded programs to include a consultation service to artists, oversight of an artist in residence program, and administration of a fellowship program. Ted Berger was Director in 1984.

  6. 1985 New York Foundation for the Arts Chronology

    New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) begins to administer New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funded film, video and screenwriting fellowships

  7. 1985 New York Foundation for the Arts Chronology

    New York Foundation for the Arts announced video fellowships to Richard Bloes, Maxi Cohen, Dee Dee Halleck, Kathy High, Warrington Hudlin, Jull Kroesen, Shigeko Kubota, Michael Marton, Tony Oursler, Alex Roshuk, Martha Rosler, Tomiyo Sasaki and Matt Schlanger. Panelists were Dena Crane, Davidson Gigliotti, Ralph Hocking, Ardele Lister and Lynn Blumenthal.

  8. 1989 New York Foundation for the Arts Chronology

    "Champion of the Arts" from the New York Foundation for the Arts " to Ralph Hocking "in recognition of his sustaining commitment to the arts community and the needs of the individual artist".

  9. New York Foundation for the Arts Bibliography

    New York Foundation for the Arts. The brochure includes the following sections: Introduction, The Ecology of the Arts, Artists in Residence... in Schools and Communities, Artists' Fellowships, Artists' New Works: Services in Project Development, Production, and Distribution, Revolving Loans, and Inf…

  10. New York Foundation for the Arts. 1988 Artists' Fellowships Bibliography

    New York Foundation for the Arts. 1988 Artists' Fellowships. Inside cover: The New York Foundation for the Arts: Who We Are. Contents: Introduction, Architecture, Choreography, Crafts, Fiction, Film, Music Composition, Painting, Performance Art/ Emergent Forms, Photography, Playwriting/ Screenwritin…

  11. New York Media Arts Map

    Visit the New York Media Arts Map, a site for information about media arts activities throughout the State.

  12. New York Media Group Spins Its Reels in Rochester Bibliography

    Report on the New York Media Alliance annual meeting held May 6–7, 1983 at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester; members debated finances, fundraising models, a proposed newsletter versus low-tech mimeographed notices, and adopted a plan to hold five meetings on production, distribution, exhibition, education, and preservation. Tensions between organizations and independent producers surfaced, with contributions from Gerald O'Grady, Skip Blumberg, Margot Lewitin, Julie Harrison, Tony Conrad, Emily Armstrong, Matthew Geller, John Giancola (NYSCA) and Ralph Hocking (Experimental Television Center). The Alliance had a $21,000 1983 operating budget with $10,000 spent; NYSCA granted $20,000 in 1982–83 ($10,000 outright, $10,000 matched), the group raised $5,500, and director Robin White had funding for roughly six more months.

  13. New York State Artist Workspace Consortium Bibliography

    Funding for the Consortium was provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The work of the Consortium began with the visionary notion of one individual, Elizabeth Marena the Director of the Visual Arts Program at NYSCA. The …

  14. 1979 New York State Council for the Humanities Chronology

    New York State Council for the Humanities begins supporting film and video

  15. 1961 New York State Council on the Arts Chronology

    NYS Legislature creates the New York State Council on the Arts. NYSCA receives initial funding of $450,000

  16. 1974 New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Chronology

    New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) increases support directed to film and video production by $891,000, overall budget increases $19,356,900

  17. 1976 New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Chronology

    Direct support of film production continues to grow despite New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) 6.9 million dollar budget reduction

  18. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1969-70 Groups

    The report documents NYSCA-supported film and media activities including a Young Filmmakers Albany South End workshop sponsored by Upper Hudson Library Federation, Aldo Tambellini working with elementary students at a television studio, and high school students screening films in Yorktown. It records Elaine Summers’ Electric Kinetic Gymnasium at C.W. Post College on Long Island planned to use twenty-four projectors. The Young Filmmakers Foundation and the Film Club on Rivington Street were chosen for pilot financial assistance; the report includes quotations from Howard Taubman and W. McNeil Lowry.

  19. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1969-70: A summary of Council activities 1960-69 Groups

    Excerpt from the New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1969–1970 summarizing Council activities 1960–69; documents the Council's creation in 1960–61 with an initial $50,000 study grant and lists annual state appropriations and National Council on the Arts grants through 1968–69. Describes statewide surveys and local meetings, the initiation and expansion of Touring, Traveling Exhibitions, Technical Assistance, Special Projects, Film, Museum Aid, Ghetto Arts and Festival programs, and the establishment of American Dance Theatre and the Young Artists Program; notes collaborations with SUNY, museums, schools, and other cultural institutions and specific grants, publications, exhibitions, tours, and residencies.

  20. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1969-70: Staff, Programs and Financial Report Groups

    The New York State Council on the Arts annual report 1969–70 lists programs in performing arts, film and visual arts and documents the agency's creation in 1960 with a $50,000 study grant and its establishment as a permanent State agency the following year with a $450,000 operating budget. The report names Council and past members and staff, including Executive Director John B. Hightower and program directors. It records that State funds and a National Endowment for the Arts grant raised the budget to $1,554,477 in 1966–67 and provides a financial statement of receipts and disbursements for the three-year period ended March 31, 1970, with tabulated funds received and program expenditures for 1967–70.

  21. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1970-71 Groups

    Annual report of the New York State Council on the Arts for 1970–71 includes Seymour H. Knox's chairman's statement and Eric Larrabee's administrator's report; it records a $20.2 million legislative appropriation with $18 million allocated to Aid to Cultural Organizations (nearly 600 applicants) and $2.2 million for Council administration, with $2.3 of the $18 million designated for the New York Public Library research facilities. The report documents more than 2,000 free or low-priced performances, 384 new productions, 3,057 weeks of arts workshops and about 100 exhibitions; it notes initiatives in educational television, multimedia, literature, community visual-arts projects and regional equipment pools and lists Council members, staff and a financial statement.

  22. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1970-71 Groups

    Derived from the New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1970-71; includes a link to the full report. Photographs by Peter Moore, Tobe J. Carey, Bernard Gotfryd and Carole Crawford accompany descriptive captions and quotations; Eric Salzman’s Feedback was produced at Syracuse University and taped by the Educational Television Council of Central New York and is described by Harwood Simmons in the Syracuse Post-Standard. Albert Maysles is shown with his brother in New York City and noted as a participant in the Film Bureau’s speaker program with a quotation from Production Notes for Salesman.

  23. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1971-72 Groups

    From the New York State Council on the Arts annual report 1971-72: a much enlarged 1970-71 legislative appropriation enabled initial Council support for television, video and media projects and increased assistance for film showings, filmmaking, poetry and literature; support broadened and diversified in 1971-72. The report notes productive filmmaking at the MediaEquipmentResourceCenter and independent video reaching audiences by coaxial cable; writers' public appearances and workshops more than doubled with Council support for the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery Poetry Project, and a 1971-72 grant aided small circulation magazines via the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines; entry signed Peter Bradley.

  24. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1971-72: Executive Statements and Financial Report Groups

    Omar K. Lerman reports that the New York State Council on the Arts found 1971-72 (Year 2) equal to Year 1: applications rose from 850 to 1,216 while the appropriation for Council distribution fell by $5 million ($2.7 million excluding a $2.3 million NYPL special appropriation), and 805 organizations were supported versus 600 the prior year. The Council administered over $14 million; Special Programs made 116 grants across disciplines; separate programs served 573 organizations and the Information Center handled about 3,500 inquiries. A National Research Center survey of 543 nonprofit cultural organizations showed $184 million in expenditures; State funding for those organizations was $8.8 million and yielded $15 from other sources for each State dollar, returning the subsidy three times over.

  25. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1972-73 Groups

    New York State Council on the Arts annual report 1972-73 lists Film/TV/Media/Literature Program staff and names Peter Bradley Program Director; it highlights Frank Gillette’s Track/Trace at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse using three cameras and fifteen monitors. Financial tables give totals for 1970-71 through 1972-3 and allocations across major program areas; the director’s statement records 1972-73 grants including 25 filmmaking workshops, film festivals, TV support and a Planning Corporation for the Arts grant for a thirteen-week two-hour video arts series aired on a New York City municipal channel, and literature grants with over 52 applicants in 1973-74.