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Rosebud Cafe: Overview (1973) Groups

Rosebud Café, founded around 1973, was a community video project linked to the April Video Cooperative (AVC) in Downsville; AVC developed 1/2" videotape as a community communications tool and the group accumulated a library of about 100 tapes, including a 30-minute tape titled The Rosebud Café available from Downsville TV. The project sought cable access on the Delhi system (Newhouse Cable Co.), a public viewing center and a mobile unit with 1/2" equipment to serve as headend, live community studio and mobile TV studio, and discussed a non-commercial channel and originating facilities with Newhouse. The activity is documented in People Visions, Vol. 2 (c.1973) and listed in Radical Software 1973; community comments record plans for drug education, local origination, drop-in space and video training.

RoseLee Goldberg People

RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, critic, curator and author whose Performance Art from Futurism to the Present (1979) helped pioneer the study of performance art; she graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art and held curatorial posts including director of the Royal College of Art Gallery (London) and curator at The Kitchen (New York). She organized Six Evenings of Performance in 1990 for High and Low at the Museum of Modern Art and authored Performance: Live Art Since 1960. In 2001–02 she originated and produced Logic of the Birds by Shirin Neshat, which premiered at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival in 2002 and toured to Minneapolis and London; she has taught at New York University since 1987.

Ross McElwee People

Filmmaker Ross McElwee’s films have screened at festivals in Berlin, London, Vienna, Rotterdam, Florence, Sydney and Wellington; retrospectives have been held at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Museum of the Moving Image (New York) and …tats généraux du film documentaire. He has received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Film Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Arts Council. Since 1986 he has taught filmmaking at Harvard University, where he is a professor in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.

Rough Edits: Popular Image Video Dara Birnbaum Bibliography

Roundtable - Discussion with Carolyn Tennant, Mona Jimenez, Pamela Susan Hawkins, Sherry Miller Hocking Interview

Roundtable - Discussion with Carolyn Tennant, Mona Jimenez, Pamela Susan Hawkins, Sherry Miller Hocking.

Roxanne Wolanczyk People

Roxanne Wolanczyk (born 1971, New York) is a visual artist whose practice is conceptual in basis, self-exploratory in content and multi-disciplinary in form; she employs a wide range of media and has used embroidered handkerchiefs, a life-size (life-cast) fountain of herself that cries, and scientific graphing of the molecular weight of her tears. For several years she maintained a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; she now produces increasingly digital work from her Manhattan home. Website: http://www.wolanczyk.com.

Roz Dimon People

Roz Dimon is an artist working between fine art and corporate art whose satirical practice addressed American commercialism; her Mr. Clean (put a man in your kitchen) appeared at the Slop Art supermarket exhibition. Trained in traditional fine art, she shifted to computer-based work with Information Paintings (1979–1989) and curated and co-produced new media exhibitions, including a multimedia interactive on-line exhibition with Ricco/Maresca Gallery, Soho, NYC, which received NBC and CBS coverage. She formed Dimon Arts, Inc., consulted for museums, nonprofits and corporations, and became Manager of New Media for Deloitte & Touche.

1988 Rural Images Film and Video Festival Chronology

Olean Pubic Library and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program co-sponsor a workshop on rural film exhibition during the library's annual "Rural Images Film and Video Festival," under direction of Jean Haynes

1970 Russell Connor Chronology

Russell Connor, Director, Media Program, New York State Council on the Arts 1970-1973

Ruth Sergel People

My work creates opportunities for participation and voice. My films were made with communities whose participation as actors and advisors shaped the heart of the work. Although the films are fiction, they were developed through a long workshop process matching technical prowess with community concer…

Rutt Etra Diagram Bibliography

Rutt Etra Model RE 4A and RE 4B Operator's Manual Bibliography

Rutt Etra Schematics Bibliography

This is not a complete set of schematics, more still needs to be digitized, or traced out. For those wanting to understand the basic design, take note of "rutt_proto_block_diagram1", that's the place to start. MS schematics_1 These scans were done by those attending the Rutt Etra workshop in NYC in …

Rutt Etra Schematics Bibliography

This is not a complete set of schematics, more still needs to be digitized, or traced out. For those wanting to understand the basic design, take note of "rutt_proto_block_diagram1", that's the place to start. MS schematics_1 These scans were done by those attending the Rutt Etra workshop in NYC in …

Rutt Etra User's Manual Bibliography

Rutt Etra Video Synthesizer. User Manual. Schematics and technical documentation. Some documentation dated 1975. Letter from Jeff Schier to Barbara concerning the machine.

Rutt/Etra Schematics Bibliography

Assembly, component placement, diagrams.

Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer Systems Bibliography

Description of RE-4-A Video Synthesizer and RE-4-B Video Synthesizer. Distributed by MPCS Communications in NY. Includes a photo of the system modules.

Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer Systems Brochure Tools

Brochure for RUTT/ETRA Video Synthesizer Systems, manufactured by Rutt Electrophysics and distributed by MPCS in New York City; lists models RE-4 ($8,500, later $12,999) and RE-4-B ($16,300, later $24,999) and describes display and scan features including Type A 525-line and Type B 1050-line displays for full NTSC rescanned images suitable for two-inch hi-band videotape or direct telecast. It lists Animation Control Modules (summing amplifier, diode module, ramp generator, audio interface, two waveform generators), notes audio/biofeedback and computer control, mentions optional accessories to remove raster lines and claims savings.

Rutt/Etra: Notes on Development Tools

Steve Rutt and Bill Etra developed the Rutt/Etra scan processor in the early 1970s with support from the New York State Council on the Arts at WNET's TV Lab in 1972–1973; the prototype later saw limited commercial production. The analog DC-coupled modular system modulated monitor deflection signals in real time to retime and reposition raster imagery, comprised three units (monitor/yoke/video amp; control and ramp generators; sweep processing) and was marketed to media artists and broadcast facilities despite high cost and flaws including limited waveform-generator capacity and CRT burn.

1987 S-VHS Chronology

D1 and S-VHS video recording formats publically available

S/Z Bibliography

Sabine Gruffat People

Sabine Gruffat is a media artist based between Brooklyn, NY and Detroit, MI; she holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Born in Bangkok and raised in Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and New York, she has also lived in Exeter, Barcelona, Paris and Providence. Her films, videos, photographs and installations have screened or been exhibited at venues including AS220 (Providence), PDX Film Festival (Portland), The Ice Factory (Chicago), the Gene Siskel Film Center and Art In General; her practice employs photography, film, digital video, web and analog/digital technologies and references Super 8 aesthetics.

Sachiko Hayashi People

Sachiko Hayashi is a visual artist who primarily works in video and screen-based interactive media. Hayashi holds a BA in International & Cultural Studies with an award winning undergraduate thesis from Tsuda College, Tokyo, a MA with Merit in Digital Media from Coventry School of Art & Design, Cove…

SAID (Spatial and Intensity Digitizer) Tools

The Spatial and Intensity Digitizer (SAID) was developed for the Experimental Television Center in Binghamton, New York, arising in 1976 from an effort to create a low-cost, video-speed analog-to-digital converter; the project implemented a 6 bit A/D and a companion 6 bit D/A, supported interactive-compositional and automatic-production modes, and produced posterize and mosaic effects in real time. Donald E. McArthur (b.1938; Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, University of Nebraska, 1967) designed SAID and later co-developed the McArthur/Schier Digital Image Generator with Jeff Schier for the Vasulkas; Walter Wright wrote the first program and Ralph Hocking and Jeff Schier participated in hardware arrangements.

Sales Brochure for Rutt/Etra Systems Bibliography

Price list and brief descriptions of RE-4 -A Video Synthesizer, Animation Control Modules and RE-4-B Video Synthesizer. Distributed by MPCS in NYC.