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  1. Nick Bontrager People

    www.NickBontrager.com

  2. Nick Collins People

    Nicolas Collins, composer and performer of electronic music, is Professor of Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and holds a BA (1976) and MA (1979) from Wesleyan University, CT. He has led Hacking workshops worldwide, worked with John Cage, Alvin Lucier and David Tudor, and is Editor-in-Chief of Leonardo Music Journal. Performances and installations include California Institute of the Arts (Valencia), Walker Arts Center and Whitney Museum of American Art; recordings appear on Lovely Music and Nonesuch; awards include DAAD (Berlin) and Thomas Watson Foundation.

  3. Nick Fortunato People

    Nick Fortunato is a video, installation, and electronic artist whose work has been exhibited at Mass MoCA, Exit Art and The Kitchen; he designed video and still images for STREB's internationally touring shows Action Heroes and GO! and performed with STREB at Central Park Summerstage, Singapore Arts Festival and Teatro Municipal de Santiago (Chile). He launched VisualLiving.com, co-founded 10 Gallon Productions and was Associate Director of the Electronic Music Foundation. He performed live video with INTERFACE and contributed compositions to the Frog Peak / Chris Mann CD Collaborations Project.

  4. Nick Hallett People

    Nick Hallett is a musician and curator working at the intersection of sound, moving image, and live performance; his work includes singing across new-music genres, composing for film and theater, and staging new-media performance. He originated the band PLANTAINS (2000–2003) as a live multimedia act combining electronic music and video, and made his New York opera debut in 2005 in Susie Ibarra’s Shangri-La at The Kitchen, where he presented concerts and sang Arthur Russell material in 2008; he performed Meredith Monk selections at Performa07 and the New Museum. He co-curates the Darmstadt series, produces and curates music for the Joshua Light Show, and has two music-theater works in development with Jessica Blank and Shana Moulton.

  5. Nicole Betancourt People

    Nicole Betancourt is Executive Director of MediaRights.org; her first film, Before you go: A Daughter's Diary, premiered on HBO in 1996 and won an Emmy for Outstanding News and Documentary Individual Achievement, a Golden Spire at the San Francisco Int'l Film Festival, and two Cable Ace nominations. She produced the feature documentary 90 Miles about how relationships within a Cuban family are shaped by the U.S.–Cuba rift; she was Associate/Field Producer for the PBS series The Quiet Revolution and Producer/Director of the educational video Changing Course to aid survivors of Hurricane Mitch. She is a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers and serves on the board of New York Women in Film and Television.

  6. Nieuwe Workshop in de Beursschouwburg: Video & beeldende kunst, arts plastiques, plastic arts Bibliography

    Nieuwe Workshop in de Beursschouwburg: Video & beeldende kunst, arts plastiques, plastic arts. Includes the following exhibitions: Jan Bultheel's "Three Tangos," Walter Verdin's "Videotracks," and Albert Pepermans "Hollywood Fragments." The folder also contains a letter of correspondence from Beurss…

  7. Nina Katchadourian People

    Nina Katchadourian is a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist working in sculpture, video, photography and sound; her projects have included mending broken spiderwebs with sewing thread, creating a machine that listens to popping popcorn and decodes it using Morse Code into spoken language, and constructing a genealogical chart of people appearing on common grocery store products. She has taught at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design; she is represented in New York by Sara Meltzer gallery and in San Francisco by Catharine Clark gallery.

  8. 1972 "Ninth Annual New York Avant-Garde Festival" Chronology

    "Ninth Annual New York Avant-Garde Festival," Alexander Hamilton, Hudson Riverboat, New York; director, Charlotte Moorman. Includes special video projects by over fifteen artists

  9. No Loose Ends: the Tektronix Proof-of-Performance Program for CATV Bibliography

    A blue slipknot of cable entwines this "cookbook" by Clifford B. Schrock. Contents of the booklet include photographs of the author and testing equipment, and CTR Readout. Sections include testing information for amplitude, intermodulation, frequency measurements, co-channel interference, frequency …

  10. Noah's Raven: A Video Installation by Mary Lucier Bibliography

    Essay by Eleanor Heartney; Biographical notes by Melinda Barlow Institution/Organizer: Toledo Museum of Art Site: Toledo Museum of Art Exhibition Dates: 2/7/93-5/9/93

  11. Noise Culture: Thing I Bibliography

    Essay titled Noise Culture situates cultural fragmentation near the turn of the millennium and defines noise culture as social turbulence fed by surplus, information overload and parasitic commodities; it cites Michel Serres, Lautreamont and Biba Kopf (Tape Delay, ed. Charles Neal) and invokes technologies and phenomena including television, video disks, computers, data-banks, computer viruses, AIDS and bureaucratic systems. The text traces consequences for memory, language, bodies, pornography, games and war, arguing that histories, identities and communicative competency dissolve into simulacra and part-objects within transnational corporate and managerial domains.

  12. Noise to Signal Ratio: Critique de las Pre-Histoire Contemporaine Bibliography

    Noise to Signal Ratio: Critique de las Pre-Histoire Contemporaine

  13. Nonfiction Powwow in Poughkeepsie: The Flaherty Seminar at Fifty Bibliography

    Report on the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar at Vassar College marking its 50th year; founded in 1955 by Frances Flaherty, the week-long program convened filmmakers, museum programmers, writers, students, and distributors for screenings, public and small-group discussions, and retrospectives. Programmer Susan Oxtoby (Cinematheque Ontario) juxtaposed documentary and experimental work and presented films including Brault and Perrault's Pour la Suite du Monde (1963), Ulrike Ottinger's Taiga (1992), Bruce Conner's Crossroads (1976), Marlon Riggs's Tongues Untied (1989), and Juan Manuel Echavarria's Bocas de Ceniza (2004). Panels debated media circulation strategies from a national Arte-style TV network to straight-to-DVD and internet distribution, and screenings provoked discussions of verite ethics, representation, and archival/experimental practice.

  14. Nonsequitor: Experimental Music, Sound, and Language Bibliography

    Nonsequitor: Experimental Music, Sound, and Language. Contents: The Arial: A Journal in Sound (Issues Nos. 1-6), What Next? Recordings (Paragraphs: Soundviews: Sources, Exquisite Corpes From PS 122, Deep Listening Band: Troglodyte's Delight, Loren Mazzacane & Suzanne Langille: Come Night, Malcolm Go…

  15. Norman Cowie People

    Norman Cowie is a video producer and professor of media theory and production whose work ranges from collaborative documentaries to video art; his work interrogates relations of power and domination and often employs documentary techniques, off-air appropriation, and short-form sound and text collage. Scenes from an Endless War, supported by Finishing Funds in 2002, received Best Experimental Documentary (tied) at the Iowa City International Documentary Festival, a Director's Citation at the Black Maria Film and Video Festival, and Best Short Film at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2003; his work is distributed by Video Data Bank and his website is www.normancowie.com.

  16. Norman Pollack People

    Norman Pollack began working in video in 1973; his credits include Objects 1973 (a computer-synthesized color abstract video aired and commissioned by WLIW-TV and sponsored by NYSCA and WNET-TV Lab), Comet Kohoutek (commissioned by ESP Records) and Junkie War (a documentary on drug addiction among Vietnam veterans featured at the WBAI Video Festival). He served as video director for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's National Conference on Health Care Planning, directed the Multi-Media Festival in Lynbrook, NY, was Vice President of Production at Clearlight Synergy and an electronic animator at A&G Video; he pioneered electronic painting and electronic set design and exhibited at The Kitchen and the Experimental TV Center (Artist in Residence).

  17. Nortros II de Thierry Kuntzel. In French Bibliography

    tape exhibition of works from the Experimental TV Center by Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller; Hank Rudolph; Henry Linhart; Shalom Gorewitz; Peer Bode; Meryl Blackman; Reynold Weidenaar; Barbara Buckner; Neil Zusman and Julie Harrison; Gary Hill. Essay by Maureen Turim and Donna Cesan

  18. Nostos II: Installations Bibliography

    In French

  19. Not on the Shelf: Accounting for New York City Artists' Organizations' Bibliography

    Alan Moore, an ex-artist turned scholar, describes his work in and with archives and notes that his personal archive includes a video distribution business. His dissertation traces politicized artists' organizations from the Art Workers Coalition through Art & Language, Artists Meeting for Cultural Change, Collaborative Projects, Political Art Documentation (PADD) and Group Material, spanning roughly 1969 to 1984. He discusses archival mortality, obsolete magnetic-media preservation and digital promises; he recounts a Syracuse experimental-video conference involving Ardele Lister and Ralph Hocking (Experimental TV Center) and references installations by Michael Smith and Josh White that invoke obsolete technologies.

  20. 1996 Not Still Art Chronology

    "Not Still Art" Festival in Cherry Valley, NY, organized by Carol Goss. Participants include Robert Doyle, Carol Goss, Peer Bode, Walter Wright.

  21. 2000 Not Still Art Festival Chronology

    Not Still Art Festival 2000 took place at the MicroMuseum in Brooklyn, NY on April 29, 2000; the program comprised a curated screening and a historical retrospective of works by Jud Yalkut, Carol Goss, Bill Etra, Shalom Gorewitz, Reynold Weidenaar and Mary Ross created on a Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer. The event also presented live performances by Carol Goss, Vanessa Bley, Hayes Greenfield, William Laziza, Mick Fortunato, Curtis Bahn, Dan Trueman, Walter Wright and Zipperspy aka Maria Moran.

  22. Not Still Art Festival 2000: The Paik/Abe Synthesizer Tools

    Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe developed the Paik/Abe Synthesizer at WGBH-TV (Boston) as the first machine designed to distort existing video; Paik was an artist-in-residence and part of The Medium Is The Medium project supported by Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Artists-In-Television Project. The instrument routed seven black-and-white surveillance cameras through non-linear amplifiers into a colorizer/scan modulator and RGB-to-NTSC encoder; it debuted on WGBH Ch. 44 on August 1, 1970 in a four-hour broadcast Video Commune set to Beatles recordings. Paik later built additional synthesizers for the Experimental Television Workshop and WNET; the original is exhibited at the Kunsthalle Bremen in a frame of vintage televisions showing dates of production.

  23. 1996 "Not Still Art" Festival Chronology

    "Not Still Art" Festival in Cherry Valley, NY, organized by Carol Goss. Participants include Robert Doyle, Carol Goss, Peer Bode, Walter Wright.

  24. Not-a-Superhero, I presume Bibliography

    Not-a-Superhero, I presume. Luca Buvoli comics. Flipbook. Synopsis: Not-a-Superhero has disappeared. A...., a private investigator with memory lapses, is on his trail. It could be too late, though. If Not-a-Superhero is still alive. Where is He?

  25. Notes on the CP/M Hardware Interface- diskette information Bibliography

    Notes on the CP/M Hardware Interface- diskette information.