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Pioneers of Digital Photography Bibliography

Mary Ross curated Pioneers of Digital Photography at Open Space Gallery, Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1998 and lectured at the Video History conference at Syracuse University, Oct. 16–18, 1998; the exhibition was supported by the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts and private foundations. The essay surveys 1960s–1980s artists who combined photographic processes with electronic and digital media, assembling 60 works by 18 artists. It documents technologies such as photocopiers, Kirilian photograms, Portapak recorders, video synthesizers and early computers at Experimental Television Center, citing practitioners Nam June Paik and Sonia Landy Sheridan.

1998 Pioneers of Digital Photography Chronology

Pioneers of Digital Photography was an exhibition at Open Space Gallery curated by Mary Ross from July 8 to August 11, 1998. The show presented works by Peer Bode, Nancy Burson, Walter Chappell, Larry Gartel, Carl Geiger, Robert Heinecken, William Larson, Graham Nash, Nam June Paik, Sheila Pinkel, Mary Ross, Sonia Sheridan, Howard Sochurek, Mary Jo Toles, Woody Vasulka, Joan Truckenbrod, Julius Vitali and Linda White.

Pioneers of Electronic Art Bibliography

articles by Robert Arn, Stephen Beck; Johanna Gill; Judson Rosebush; Nam June Paik; Sherry Miller Hocking; Also Tambellini; Jud Yalkut. Institution/Organizer: Ars Electronica Curator(s): Vasulka,Woody Vasulka,Steina Exhibition Dates: June 22 - July 5, 1992

1978 Pittsburgh Filmmakers Chronology

Pittsburgh Filmmakers convened a meeting in June 1978 to address issues raised by the Mohonk Conference and the publication The Independent Film Community; participants judged the public unaware of independent media activities and national organizations such as the AFI insufficiently responsive. Twenty-three of the largest media centers attended but the meeting was not representative, prompting a perception that national, unified action was needed. A Steering Committee was formed to call the 1979 Minnewaska Conference; it represented the Rocky Mountain Film Center, the Northwest Film Study Center, the Bay Area Video Coalition, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, the Boston Film/Video Foundation and AIVF.

1996 Playback 1996: Video Preservation Roundtable Chronology

Playback 1996: Video Preservation Roundtable was held in San Francisco on March 29–30 and organized by the Bay Area Video Coalition with assistance from Media Alliance; the international symposium was funded by the Getty Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The event is described as the first to build alliances between the media arts and art conservation.

Playback 1996: Video Preservation Roundtable Bibliography

Conference packet. March 29 - 30, 1996. Conference Agenda: Welcome (Sally Fifer, Debbie Hess Norris, Inge-Lise Eckmann). The Artist's Perspective (Robert Riley, Mary Lucier, Philip Mallory Jones, Woody Vasulka, Bruce Yonemoto, Barbara London). Analysis and Evaluation Procedures (Beni Matias, Bruce F…

1998 Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video Chronology

Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video edited by Sally Jo Fifer, Tamara Gould, Luke Hones, Debbie Hess Norris, Paige Ramey and Karen Weiner is published by Bay Area Video Coalition.

Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video Bibliography

2003 Playback: Preserving Analog Video Chronology

Playback: Preserving Analog Video is a DVD produced by BAVC in 2003; the interactive disc presents technical practices of analog video preservation and the decision-making processes used by artists, conservators and video engineers during reconstruction of video artworks. Contents include Analog Video Basics, with animations depicting videotape composition, tape deterioration chemistry and the video signal; a Preservation Case Study illustrating a real-life preservation process; and The Eternal Frame, a 1976 video art piece jointly produced by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco. The Center contributed research on early equipment and provided photographs, technical data and ephemera for the DVD.

Poetics: State of the Art Bibliography

Poetics: State of the Art. "Poetry is aversion of conformity in the pursuit of new forms, or can be. pp 1-8.

Political Video in the United States: A Statement for the 1990s. In At Arm's Length (Osborn) which see Bibliography

Pomp and Circumstances: The Coronation of Nam June Paik Bibliography

Discussion of the Paik retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Pop Pop Video Bibliography

Dara Birnbaum

1970 Port Washington Library Chronology

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Port Washington Library, under direction of Lillian Katz.

Port Washington Public Library Media Programs: Descriptions of the Media Program (1972, 1974, 1997) Groups

The record describes the Port Washington Public Library Media Department and community video program in the early 1970s; a 1972 Radical Sofwtare listing notes two SONY portapaks and AV 3600/3650 editing and playback decks and names Walter A. Dale as project director. Walter Dale's 1974 article reports over 500 community volunteers trained, 300 hours of programming, 250 public screenings and a Port Profiles interview series. Lillian R. Katz secured NYSCA funding with a 1970 proposal, directed Media Services from 1976, the Video Production Center closed in 1987, and the library's VHS collection grew from 200 tapes in 1984 to over 7,000 titles by 1997.

1972 Portable Channel Chronology

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Portable Channel, Rochester, for a video center

1972 Portable Channel Chronology

Portable Channel, Rochester, founded; directors include Bonnie Klein, Sanford Rockowitz, John Camelio, Robert Shea and Tim Kelly. Video resource center with workshops, visiting artist series, equipment access, producitons

Portable Channel: Chronology (1998) Groups

Chronology compiled by Pamela Susan Hawkins and Sherry Miller Hocking (1997–1998) documents the history of Portable Channel and its predecessor Media Equipment Pool in Rochester, NY. Portable Channel operated from 1971 through Fall 1987; activities included lending 1/2" portable production equipment, offering workshops and visiting-artist residencies, maintaining a community videotape library, publishing Feedback/Feedforward and producing Homemade TV for WXXI. Initial funding came from the New York State Council via the Rochester Museum and Science Center; later funding cuts from NYSCA and the NEA preceded its closure and transfer of equipment and collection to Visual Studies Workshop.

1988 Post Currents: A Gallery of Electronic Arts Chronology

Post Currents: A Gallery of Electronic Arts. Curator: Neil Zusman. Tapes and installations by Gary Hill, Tony Conrad, Peter Babula, Woody Vasulka, Steina, Ralph Hocking, Tom DeWitt, John Sturgeon and others.

Post Currents: A Gallery of Electronic Arts Bibliography

Tapes and installations by Gary Hill, Tony Conrad, Peter Babula, Woody Vasulka, Steina, Ralph Hocking, Tom DeWitt, John Sturgeon and others. Curator(s): Zusman,Neil

Post Literate Bibliography

examines the development of new technologies and their impact on our relationship to the written word

Post Modern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media Bibliography

Postcard to Experimental TV Center Bibliography

Poster and calendar for February 1975. Performance by Walter Wright Bibliography

Poster for broadcast on WNET of "Global Groove" Bibliography