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  1. Richard Herskowitz People

    Richard Herskowitz has been Artistic Director of the Virginia Film Festival since 1994; previously he directed the Cornell Cinema for twelve years, programming nearly 500 films and special programs annually. He served as adjunct curator at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; authored film commentary; programmed the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 1987, 1991 (Riga, Latvia) and 1999; he received an M.A. in film studies from the University of Wisconsin in 1978 and has taught film courses at U.Va., Cornell and Rutgers.

  2. Richard Kostelanetz People

    Richard Kostelanetz is an American writer, artist, critic and editor of the avant-garde; he studied at Brown (B.A., 1962), Columbia (M.A., 1966) and King's College, London, and served as a visiting professor or guest artist. In 1971 he produced the formalist novel In the Beginning; his nonfiction The End of Intelligent Writing (1974) charged the New York literary establishment with inhibiting publication of innovative younger authors. He produced visual poetry, issued recordings on his own label, edited works on B.B. King and Philip Glass, made films with Martin Koerber (A Berlin Lost, 1984; Berlin Sche-Einena Jother, 1988), and published A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes in 1999.

  3. 1978 Richard Landry Chronology

    Richard Landry concert at Experimental Television Center. 5/4/78. An in-person concert performance by Landry

  4. 1978 Richard Landry Chronology

    Richard Landry concert at Experimental Television Center. 5/4/78. An in-person concert performance by Landry

  5. Richard Serra People

    Richard Serra, born in San Francisco in 1939, studied at UC Berkeley and Santa Barbara and earned a BA in 1961; he worked in steel mills to support himself and received BFA and MFA degrees from Yale in 1964, followed by a Yale Traveling Fellowship in Paris and a Fullbright year in Florence. His early 1960s work used industrial steel and lead and included a lead-throwing studio piece; later large-scale works include the Torqued Ellipses series (1996—99) and the 60-foot-tall Charlie Brown (1999) erected in a San Francisco office courtyard. He lives in New York and Nova Scotia.

  6. Risk/ Riesgo Bibliography

    Contents in Spanish and English. Chapter contents follow: Introduction by Kathy High, Public Space/ Public Interference, Spin Cycle/ Media Jamming, Inscribing the Body, Erosion/ Rewriting History, Further Disturbances, and Acknowledgements. with guest editors Ximena Cuevas (Mexico), Roberto Lopez (M…

  7. 1991 Riss: Kjell Bjorgeengen Videoskulpturer Chronology

    Riss: Kjell Bjorgeengen Videoskulpturer 1991 exhibition of work by Kjell Bjorgeengen

  8. Riss: Kjell Bjorgeengen Videoskulpturer 1991 Bibliography

    Kjell Bjorgeengen: Experimental TV Center

  9. Rita Myers People

    Rita Myers is a video artist who received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts; the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities; and the Jerome Foundation. Her work has been exhibited internationally since the early 1970s.

  10. Robb Fladry People

    Robb Fladry is an artist working with video and sound; he holds a BFA in studio art and an MA in theatre from Austin Peay State University and is known for video installations and live video performances. He has exhibited works at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, the BEA Festival for Media Arts in Las Vegas, Electronic Language International Festival FILE: Rio de Janeiro 2009 and FILE: SÂo Paulo 2008, and the Digital Fringe Festival in Melbourne; he is the only permanent member of the electronic pop-rock band Art School Romance and performs in the VJ duo [ fladry + jones ] with Barry Jones and the audio/video experiment Synesthesia with Aaron Hutcheson.

  11. Robert Attanasio People

    Attanasio has been making films and video for over 20 years. Not From Concentrate was included in the Whitney Biennial in 1997. Rubber Crutches was included in Big As Life, a historical retrospective of 8 mm film work in the US at the Museum of Modern Art.

  12. 1961 Robert Bell Chronology

    The New York State Council on the Arts commissioned Robert Bell to make Watching Ballet, a 16mm film with Jacques D'Amboise and Allegra Kent demonstrating ballet technique. The film, completed in 1963, was used in the Ballet Society's touring educational programs.

  13. Robert Martinez People

    Voltage Controlled started 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 material without conventional controllers; they produced several audio releases, a weekly TV show and live performances. Originally working together in California, the collaborators later split geographically: Chris remains in California maintaining the main Voltage Controlled studio of electronics, and Paris lives in New York doing freelance computer work. Paris's site is http://www.parisgraphics.com/, and he performs live using Pure Data to simulate analog video techniques; the project lists http://www.voltagecontrolled.com.

  14. Robert Russett: A Retrospective Survey Bibliography

    Essays by Herman Mhire, Laurence Kardish, Linda Dubler, Rene Barilleaux. Experimental Television Center

  15. Robert York People

    Alfred University. Web development for commercial and arts clients. Educational Assistant with specialization in computers, for students with behavioral disabilities.

  16. Roberto Bocci People

    Roberto Bocci is a multimedia electronic artist born in Siena, Italy; over twenty years his practice moved from painting and photography to computer-driven interactive multimedia installations, including multimedia sound and video installations, single-channel videotapes, photographic images and interactive CD-ROMs for desktop computers. He has exhibited in America, Europe, Japan and Australia and has received fellowships and grants including a Fulbright Fellowship in 1987 and a Woodstock Photography Grant. He holds MFAs in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in Painting and Photography from the University at Albany; he has taught at Georgetown University and Studio Art Centers International (Florence) and currently lives and works in Washington DC; website: http://www.boccir.com/

  17. Roberto Guerra People

    Roberto Guerra, born in Lima, is a documentary director, producer and cinematographer who earned an engineering degree from the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria and worked in Peru, Paris, London and New York; for over twenty-five years he collaborated with Eila Hershon on films including Frida Kahlo (first prize, Montreal Festival of Films on Art) and multi-part series on fashion and design. More than thirty films have been broadcast in over thirty-five countries; with Kathy Brew he produced a Snug Harbor installation (Oct 2001–Jan 2002) and Paradise Now (WNET/Thirteen, Jan 2001), and received Emmy awards in 1999 and 2000.

  18. 1984 Rochester Black Film Festival Chronology

    Rochester Black Film Festival organized by Ombowale Ayorinde. Programming included work by AFrican, Hispanic, African American and other Third World filmmakers. Ayorinde served as Director for 4 years. The Festival was then continued by the Rochester Association of Black Communicators.

  19. 1965 Rockefeller Foundation Chronology

    Rockefeller Foundation began to fund artists for experimentation with video.

  20. 1988 Rockefeller Foundation Chronology

    Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Charles Burnett, Haile Gerima, DeeDee Halleck, Paul Kos, Victor Masavesva Jr., Lourdes Portillo, Trinh T. Minh-ha

  21. 1989 Rockefeller Foundation Chronology

    Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to St. Clair Bourne Tony Buba Chris Choy Julie Dash Ana Maria Garcia Jill Godmilow Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton Gary Hill John Marshall Enrique Oliver Yvonne Rainer Marlon Riggs Leslie Thornton Billy Woodberry

  22. 1990 Rockefeller Foundation Chronology

    Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Shu Lea Cheang, Juan Downey, Joan Jonas, Edward Tim Lewis, Danny Lyon, Louis Massiah, Ross McElwee, Jonas Mekas, Susanna Munoz, Gunvor Nelson, Jon Schwartz, Renee Tajima-Pena, Peter Hunt Thompson, Steina Vasulka

  23. 1991 Rockefeller Foundation Chronology

    Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Ralph Arlyck, Zeinabu irene Davis, Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines, Su Friedrich, Vanalyne Green, Louis Hock, Peter Hutton, Bill Jersey, Zydnia Nazario, Warren Sonbert, Janice Tanaka, Keiko Tsuno, Bill Viola, Marco Williams

  24. 1992 Rockefeller Foundation Chronology

    The Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Camille Billops, Gregg Bordowitz, Simin Farkhondeh, Arthur Jafa Fielder, Indu Krishnan, James Luna, Judith MacDougall, David MacDougal, Poli Marichal, Jan Oxenberg, Michelle Parkerson, Valerie Soe, Chris Spotted Eagle, Rea Tajiri and Iverson White; the entry lists these individuals as fellowship recipients.

  25. 1993 Rockefeller Foundation Chronology

    Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Larry Andrews, Carlos Aparicio, Gregg Araki, Sadie Benning, James Benning, Alan Berliner, Black Planet Productions, Arlene Bowman, Kathy High, Leandro Katz, Elia Suleiman, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Ela Troyano, Martha Wallner