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Pantograph Tools

Tom DeWitt's Pantomation (illustrated by Vibeke Sorensen) describes the Electronic Pantograph, a television-camera-and-computer system that tracks keyed points and records position-versus-time; by December 1976 the authors had developed a machine that could load hand-drawn waveforms and produced a pantomation videotape (Dec 31, 1976) used in the pantomime Outta Space. Phil Edelstein documents the Key Positioner hardware—two 8-bit counters, latches and strobe logic—implemented for a PDP‑8/L and requiring H/V drive, a 3.58 MHz chroma signal and DACs. Projects involved Electronic Body Arts, the Air Farce Mime Troupe, the Electronic Music Studio at SUNYA and WMHT TV; funding included a New York State Council on the Arts grant and a NEA conference demonstration on March 10 in Buffalo, NY.

1976 Pantomation Chronology

Construction of the Pantomation system began in November 1976 at Electronic Body Arts, Albany.

Pantomation Bibliography

Presented at the Design in Electronic Arts conference at Media/Study Buffalo. 3/10-13/77.

Paper rad People

Paper Rad is composed of Jacob Ciocci, Jessica Ciocci and Benjamin Jones; they produce painting, music, performance, animation, web art and drawing using a vibrant palette, myth and meta‑ironic humor, and their work has been described as Blakean. Their work explores transformation through recurring characters. They screened, performed and exhibited in Honolulu, London, Chicago and New York (2002–2003); they were featured in The New York Times and Rolling Stone and are included in Internet Art (ed. Rachel Green; Thames and Hudson, 2004); they will participate in the 2004 Liverpool Biennial and maintain website www.paperrad.com.

1981 Paper Tiger Television Chronology

Paper Tiger Television, New York City, is established, with New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding for its first season

1981 Paper Tiger TV Chronology

Paper Tiger TV is a non-profit volunteer collective producing video media criticism since 1981; it has created a diverse series of over 260 programs addressing democratic communications, media representation and the economics of the information industry. The tapes are broadcast in NYC and across the US; Paper Tiger distributes tapes to universities, libraries and media centers worldwide.

Paper TV vs. Real TV Bibliography

Paris Treantafeles People

Voltage Controlled began in the early 90's when Robert Christopher Martinez and Paris Treantafeles experimented with abandoned technology and analog synthesizers to generate patterns, melodies and rhythmic patterns without keyboards or conventional devices; while based in California they issued several audio releases, produced a weekly TV show and performed live. Chris is currently in California and Paris is in New York; Chris maintains the main Voltage Controlled electronics studio and Paris does freelance computer work in NYC, operates a site at http://www.parisgraphics.com/ and performs live using Pure Data to simulate analog video techniques for visuals from audio. The project is represented online at http://www.voltagecontrolled.com

Parry Teasdale People

Parry Teasdale was a founding member of the Videofreex, Inc. From 1969 through the mid-70s, the artists, producers and technicians of this collective and its successor organization, Media Bus, pushed emerging low-cost video technology beyond the limits its makers anticipated, creating a large librar…

1987 PARTICIPATE Chronology

PARTICIPATE's Directory of Public Access Cable Channels and Related Video Resources in New York State published with New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding

Passages at the Experimental TV Center Bibliography

Description of the program at the Experimental TV Center

Passages in Modern Sculpture Bibliography

1983 Path of Dreams: Video in the Boroughs Chronology

Path of Dreams: Video in the Boroughs. Curator: Sara Hornbacher. Tapes by Bill Viola, Dan Reeves and Jon Hilton, Sara Hornbacher.

Path of Dreams: Video in the Boroughs Bibliography

Tapes by Bill Viola, Dan Reeves and Jon Hilton, Sara Hornbacher. Curator(s): Hornbacher,Sara

Patricia Zimmermann People

Patricia R. Zimmermann is professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York; she authored REEL FAMILIES (Indiana, 1995) and STATES OF EMERGENCY (Minnesota, 2000) and coedited THE FLAHERTY (Wide Angle, 1996). Her forthcoming volumes include MINING THE HOME MOVIE (coedited with Karen Ishizuka) and DIGITAL MEMORIES; she coedits the WIDE ANGLE BOOKS series for Temple University Press. Her scholarly and journalistic work has been published internationally; she lectures abroad, serves on editorial and national boards, and has curated the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and Ithaca College's Women Direct series for 22 years.

Patrick Lichty People

Patrick Lichty (US) is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, independent curator, animator for the activist group The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine; he began showing technological media art in 1989 and explores the social relations between us and media. His solo and collaborative works have appeared at the Whitney & Turin Biennials, Maribor Triennial, Performa Performance Biennial, Ars Electronica and the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA); he works extensively with virtual worlds including Second Life and his work with the performance art group Second Front has been featured in Flash Art, Eikon Milan and ArtNews. He is Assistant Professor of Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago and resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Paul Chan People

Paul Chan, born 1973 in Hong Kong and based in New York, is an artist who maintains a separation between his art and political activism; he spent an unsanctioned month in Iraq with the aid group Voices in the Wilderness and helped create The People’s Guide to the Republican National Convention, an agitprop map of New York City for protesters in 2004. His work centers on hallucinating repressed relationships in contemporary society, including contrasts between the sacred and secular, the high and the low, and the poetic and the pornographic. Chan was a 2003 Rockefeller Foundation New Media Art Fellow, directed the online political/aesthetic thinktank at www.nationalphilistine.com, and his work is distributed by Video Data Bank.

Paul Davies People

Paul Davies is an artist with solo and group exhibitions from the mid-1990s through 2005 in New York, Chicago, Seattle and Toronto; solo projects include Small Humans Building Their Destruction (free103point9, New York, Oct 2004) and Opaque, Quantification of Humans and Bandwidth (Chicago, 1999–2000). He studied Engineering Science at the University of Toronto (BASc, 1987–1991) and was affiliated with SOIL (Seattle, Sept 2000–Nov 2002) and the Art and Robotics Group at Interaccess (Toronto, Apr 1997–Jun 1999). He curated exhibitions at Jane Addams Hull House and SOIL, lectured on interfacing interactive sculptures with surplus PCs, and received Canada Council and City of Chicago CAAP grants in 2003.

Paul DeMarinis People

Paul DeMarinis has worked since 1971 as a multimedia electronic artist producing performance works, sound and computer installations; he has performed internationally and composed for Merce Cunningham Dance Co. He was Artist-in-Residence at The Exploratorium and Xerox PARC and received awards and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, N.Y.F.A. and private foundations. Much of his work uses speech processed and synthesized by computers and appears on recordings; recent installations include Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and Expo 1998 in Lisbon.

Paul Devlin People

Paul Devlin is a director, producer, editor and camera and a five-time Emmy winner for work on NBC's Olympics and CBS's Tour de France. His documentary Power Trip screened in 60 countries, received US theatrical distribution and aired on PBS's Independent Lens; it was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and won 10 festival awards including top prizes at Berlin, Hot Docs (Toronto) and Florida. He directed SlamNation about the National Poetry Slam (theatrical; HBO/Cinemax and Encore/Starz), lists BLAST and Through the Storm as current projects, and served as producing editor on FREESTYLE: The Art of Rhyme (VH1; Special Jury Award, Florida Film Festival); his editing credits include sports broadcasts such as CBS's Super Bowls and ABC/ESPN's World Cup Soccer.

1997 Paul Messier Chronology

With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Media Alliance contracts with Paul Messier of Boston Art Conservation to conduct preservation surveys with six media arts groups in New York State. Media Alliance Preservation Survey is published.

Paul Messier People

Paul Messier is an art conservator specializing in photographic materials and works on paper; he holds an AB from Vassar College and an MA and CAS in the conservation of works of art on paper from the State University College in Buffalo. He undertook advanced training and research at the Atelier de Restauration des Photographies in Paris (1990) and at the Conservation Analytical Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution (1991). He served as Head Conservator at the Rocky Mountain Conservation Center, taught at the University of Denver, published in conservation and scientific journals, and co-founded Boston Art Conservation.

Paul Miller DJ Spooky People

Paul D. Miller is a New York based musician, conceptual artist and writer known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid; he was the first editor at large of Artbyte and has written for The Village Voice, Artforum, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine and The Source. His practice uses digitally created music and multimedia in a post-modern sculptural mode; noted collaborators include Ryuichi Sakamoto and Kool Keith. His work has been shown in the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennial for Architecture (2000); recent projects include Unfinished Stories with Margo Jefferson and Francesca Harper and books due in 2003; website www.djspooky.com.

1884 Paul Nipow Chronology

Paul Nipow patents a type of television using a mechanical scanning system with a rotating disk.

Paul Rowley People

Brooklyn based Irish artist and filmmaker Paul Rowley currently works primarily with film, video and sound, exhibiting his work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers' Gallery, London, Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg, th…