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Rachael Greene People

Rachael Greene worked in digital and art contexts; before rejoining Rhizome.org in June 2002 she wrote freelance and served on the boards of Rhizome.org and PARTICIPANT Inc., while developing television properties at Funny Garbage in New York City. Prior to Funny Garbage she worked at America Online while attending the Whitney Independent Study Program as a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow; she was Editor at Rhizome.org from 1997 through 1999 and has written for ArtForum, Frieze and Bomb. She was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Sussex; her book on Internet Art from Thames & Hudson will be out in early 2004.

Rachael Perkoff People

Rachael Perkoff was born and raised in New Orleans and moved to New York to study theater; she worked in New York as an actor and director for many years. She returned to New Orleans several years ago to make sense of her sister's death and began filming ANOTHER LOST ANGEL. Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, she wove her sister's untimely demise together with that of the city, honoring a culture, time and place that are disappearing.

Rachel Siegel People

Rachel Siegel is an artist, community arts advocate and arts educator born and raised in Los Angeles, California; she completed a Master of Fine Arts at University at Buffalo in 2002 and graduated with honors from UC Berkeley in 1989 with simultaneous Bachelor of Arts degrees in The Practice of Art and Peace & Conflict Studies. Her feminist art practice includes video, installation, digital arts, photography and book-making; selected exhibitions include the Amory Center (CA), Carnegie Art Center (NY), Squeaky Wheel (NY), SPAS Gallery and other venues.

1982 Radical Departures Chronology

Radical Departures: The 1982 Creative Artists Public Service Program Video/Multimedia Festival was curated by Steven Kolpan; it toured upstate New York venues including ETC, Visual Studies Workshop, Media Bus, Media Study/Buffalo, Ithaca Artists Cooperative, Alfred University, Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library, Albany Public Library, Crandall Library, Port Washington Public Library and Chaenango County Council on the Arts. The exhibition presented video and multimedia works. Artists included Dan Reeves, John Hilton, Lynn Corcoran, John Sandborn, Kit Fitzgerald, Joan Logue, Ardele Lister, Sally Shapiro, Ed Bowes, Jaime Davidovich and Loraine Corfield.

Radical Departures: The 1982 CAPS Video/Multimedia Festival Bibliography

Dan Reeves and John Hilton; Lynn Corcoran;. Traveling exhibition to upstate locations including ETC, Visual Studies Workshop, Media Bus, Media Study/Buffalo, Ithaca Artists Cooperative; Alfred University; Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library, Albany Public Library, Crandall Library, Port Washington Public…

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1977 Radio Shack Chronology

Radio Shack introduces TRS-80 $600 using Z80 CPU, 4 KB RAM, b&w display

1980 Radio Shack Chronology

Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer $400 and a Pocket Computer for $230

1864 Radio-Wave Transmission Chronology

James Maxwell develops formulae describing electromagnetic radiation, establishing the principle of radio-wave transmission.

Rahne Alexander People

Citizen Rahne Alexander is a Baltimore songwriter and performer and a member of the Charm City Kitty Club; her garage rock band The Degenerettes was launching its first tour this Summer. She has performed nationally at events including Transmodern Age and the Tranny Roadshow. In 2005 she released the CD Blonde On A Bum Trip; her movie Let's Get Out Of Here won the Way Cool Film Geek Jury Prize at Microcinefest in 2006; she authored the zine Tranzilla! and interviewed for UC Santa Cruz oral history project in 2002.

1969 Raindance Corporation Chronology

Raindance Corporation: New York City collective formed for experimental production. Members: Frank Gillette, Michael Shamberg, Steve Salonis, Marco Vassi and Louis Jaffee; soon after Ira Schneider and Paul Ryan, and then Beryl Korot

1970 Raindance Corporation Chronology

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Raindance Corporation, New York City, under direction of Frank Gillette, Beryl Korot and Ira Schneider.

1970 Raindance Foundation Chronology

Raindance Foundation, New York, published Radical Software from 1970 to 1974 (vols. 1-2); co-editors were Phyllis Gershuny and Beryl Korot and publication was by Ira Schneider and Michael Shamberg. The magazine served as an alternative video magazine and information channel for distribution and exchange of video works; the complete set of issues is available online at http://www.radicalsoftware.org/.

1971 Raindance Foundation Chronology

Raindance Corporation, New York City, becomes Raindance Foundation, devoted to research and development of video as a creative and communications medium with screening program.

Ralf D. Bode People

Ralf D. Bode was a cinematographer nominated for an Academy Award for Coal Miner's Daughter; he died in 2001. Early in his career he won praise as a second-unit photographer for filming Sylvester Stallone on the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps in 1976's Rocky and photographed his breakthrough feature Saturday Night Fever; he shot about 40 features including Dressed to Kill, Gorky Park and The Accused. Born in Germany, he immigrated to the United States at 14, worked extensively in television—earning an Emmy nomination for the ABS and Disney production of Annie in 1999—and taught at the Los Angeles Film School, which named its annual student cinematography award in his honor.

1991 Ralph Hocking Chronology

Ralph Hocking proposes the "resurrection bus", a mobile service to clean and re-master old video.

Ralph Hocking People

Ralph Hocking taught at Binghamton University from 1968 and served as Professor of video and computer art and Chair of the Cinema Department until 1998; in 1970 he founded the Experimental Television Center, which provided residencies, research, equipment access, training and regional and national exhibitions. He consulted and served as panelist for agencies including the New York State Council on the Arts; his work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe and is distributed by Video Data Bank. He received support from the NEA Visual Arts Fellowship Program and the New York State Council on the Arts, compiled the video Work 1969-1986 during an Institute for Electronic Arts residency, and served as creative director for Experimental Television Center: 1969-2009 and The Emergence of Video Processing Tools (2014).

Ralph Hocking and the Experimental Television Center Bibliography

Ralph Hocking and the Experimental Television Center

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Ralph Poem Bibliography

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Ralph Sullender People

Woody Sullender is a Brooklyn-based composer and performer whose work examines socio-political aspects of organized sound, often via improvised electro-acoustic banjo performances as Uncle Woody Sullender that reference traditional musics of Virginia and North Carolina and incorporate punk, noise and free jazz. He worked with Pauline Oliveros and Maryanne Amacher; Amacher used his banjo recordings in TEO! A sonic sculpture, which won the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica in 2005. He collaborates with Seamus Cater (Amsterdam), Kevin Davis (Istanbul/Chicago) and Katt Hernandez (Philadelphia), teaches Media Studies at the New School and DJs on WFMU.

Randi Cecchine People

Randi Cecchine, a native of suburban Philadelphia, completed a BA in film, photography and media studies at Hampshire College in 1994 and an MFA in Media Arts Production at the City College of New York in 2000; since 1994 she has lived in New York City producing photographs and videos and teaching media to youth and adults. She has worked with Paper Tiger Television, Deep Dish Television, SOS Haiti, Global Action Project and various arts organizations. She is currently teaching media and communication at the College of Staten Island (CUNY) and a personal website is provided.