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Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents Bibliography

texts by Debby Silverfine; Daryl Chin; Leanne Mella; Marita Sturken; Pearl Bowser; chronology of activities; listing of grant recipients 1961-1993; listing of individual artists grants 1963 - 1994. Curator(s): Earle,Linda Mella,Leanne

Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents - Film and Video Works Funded Bibliography

Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents - Film and Video Works Funded texts by Debby Silverfine; Daryl Chin; Leanne Mella; Marita Sturken; Pearl Bowser; chronology of activities; listing of grant recipients 1961-1993; listing of individual artists gr…

Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents The Moving Image in Space: Public Funding and the Installation Form Bibliography

The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funded production and exhibition spaces for film and video installations, increasing state support in the early 1970s and moving media art from alternative venues into museums. Institutions cited include the Everson Museum (early 1970s video curator), the Whitney (video exhibitions from 1971, Re/Visions 1979, Nam June Paik retrospective 1982) and MoMA (Projects 1971, video department 1974); artists and technologies ranged from 1960s avant-garde closed-circuit and multi-monitor work to later interactive and multicultural installations such as The Erl King (1986) and Color Schemes (1990).

Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents: Introduction to Set in Motion Bibliography

Set in Motion is a retrospective of films and videotapes funded by the New York State Council on the Arts between 1961 and 1993; it was organized from NYSCA planning meetings to review the agency's mission and accomplishments. The text chronicles NYSCA initiatives including the 1967 Film Program, the addition of support for small-format video in 1970, the 1976 Bicentennial Film Project with NEA matching funds, the 1972 TV Lab at WNET/13, and the 1984 Individual Artists Program; it names staff and advisors such as John Hightower, Peter Bradley, Debby Silverfine, Linda Earle and Leanne Mella. It documents statewide training, exhibition and production programs, foundation partners (Ford, Rockefeller) and numerous community media organizations and workshops supported by NYSCA.

Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents: Notes on the Rise of Independent Media Bibliography

Daryl Chin, an artist and critic in New York City, surveys the rise of U.S. independent media and credits government arts funding—notably the New York State Council on the Arts—with widening access to production, equipment and distribution. He outlines technological shifts (Super-8, Betacam, VHS, 16mm, optical printers, Portapak) and institutional supports such as the Millennium Film Workshop and media distributors. He cites works including Kathe Sandler's A Question of Color and discusses media hybridity, diversity, funding constraints and the need for computer literacy.

Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents: On Television Bibliography

This essay documents artists and collectives who used public access cable, satellite links and low-power transmission to experiment with live and interactive television in New York from the early 1970s through the 1990s; it describes Bill Beirne's 1976 street performance Cross Reference at 23rd Street and Park Avenue, cablecast by Manhattan Cable Television and sponsored by The Kitchen. It recounts Douglas Davis's live two-way cablecasts (1976–77) and the 1977 Whitney telecast, the establishment of WNET/13's TV Lab in 1972 funded by NYSCA and the Rockefeller Foundation, and projects by TVTV, Image Union, Lanesville TV and Paper Tiger Television.

Seth Kirby and Brock Monroe People

Seth Kirby and Brock Monroe integrate expanded cinema and theatrical lighting to create immersive visual environments for live musical performance, installation and video; they develop hybrid techniques linking (analog) psychedelic lightshow traditions to contemporary (digital) methods. They have presented live cinema individually and together at Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen, PS1, Deitch Projects, Issue Project Room, Mighty Robot and Glasslands Gallery, and serve as light artists for the Joshua Light Show in collaboration with Joshua White. Recent JLS presentations include Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and the Netmage festival in Bologna; other collaborators include Marc Brickman and Peter Wynne Willson.

Seth Nehil People

Seth Nehil (b. 1973) is an American visual, performance and sound artist; he began working with sound around 1990 using found objects, instruments, old records and reel-to-reel machines. In 1994 he and John Grzinich formed the studio project Alial Straa, employing Grzinich's handmade amplified piano-wire instruments and Nehil's analogue tape treatments; Straa's music centers on the topographical contour of an immense plain, a 'balanced field'. He worked for N D magazine from 1995 to 2000, received a BA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998, resides in Portland, Oregon and collaborates with John Grzinich, Olivia Block and Michael Northam.

Seth Price People

Seth Price (born 1973) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose conceptual work in video, sculpture, sound and text uses appropriation, recirculation and packaging to examine cultural production, information distribution and ideology. He authored the illustrated manifesto Disperson, designed in 2001–02 for the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Art catalogue and later published as an artist's book, and is part of the Continuous Project collective (since 2003) which has reprinted seminal art texts including the first issue of Avalanche. Price has exhibited in New York, Milan and Basel, and his videos have screened at Rotterdam and Tate Britain.

Setting Up Your Moog Synthesizer, A Guide to Installation and Operation of Synthesizers 1, II, and III. Model 950, 960 series Bibliography

Setting Up Your Moog Synthesizer, A Guide to Installation and Operation of Synthesizers 1, II, and III. Model 950, 960 series. Illustrated with connection diagrams. Includes 1969 price list and Sales sheet on Model 960 Sequencer. "...After a summer's collaboration with composer Herbert Deutsch and e…

Seven Billion Dollars Is Spent Annually in America for the Beauty Business Bibliography

Seventh Annual Asian American International Video Festival Bibliography

1981 Seventh Ithaca Video Festival Chronology

Seventh Ithaca Video Festival received 290 entries and selected 19 tapes; there was no entry fee and payment was provided for tapes selected. Panelists included Barbara London (MOMA), Arthur Tsuchiya (NYSCA) and Carvin Eison (WXXI Artists Workshop). Artists included Shalom Gorewitz, Steina Vasulka, Ed Emshwiller and Woody Vasulka, among others; exhibition sites included the Herbert Johnson Museum, Intermedia Art Center, Port Washington Public LIbrary and Albany Public LIbrary. The festival was supported by the NYSCA and NEA.

Shalom Gorewitz People

Gorewitz has been working with video and computer technology since the late 1960s to create poetic, intellectual and politically charged art videos relating to faith, relationships and social issues. He works alone with prototype and low-end computer and video systems to collect, transform and edit …

Shalom Gorewitz: Metaphoric Image Manipulator Bibliography

Shalom Gorewitz: Metaphoric Image Manipulator

Shana Moulton and Nick Hallett People

Shana Moulton is a video and performance artist who creates oblique narratives that combine unsettling, wry humor with a low‑tech Pop sensibility; she performs a character whose interactions with the everyday become mundane and surreal. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley and received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon; she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and studied at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Her work has screened internationally at festivals and venues including Loop '05, Impakt, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and The Armory Show; she lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Sharan Sklar People

Sharan Sklar founded Sklar Media in 2000 to provide business strategy, marketing and organizational management to media businesses and nonprofit organizations; she advises leaders on goals and strategy. She previously launched and headed Blow Up Pictures, overseeing production of three features including Chuck and Buck, Series 7 and Breathe In/Breathe Out, and produced the company business plan and marketing campaign. Sklar served as director of the Independent Feature Film Market, managing review and screening of over 300 films, five publications, a 25-person staff and a $1 million operating budget; she began at film museums, has lectured and served on juries, and currently sits on several nonprofit boards.

Sharon Grace People

Sharon Grace is an artist working in telecommunications, video installation, interactive digital systems and sculpture in stone and steel. She apprenticed with Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe at WGBH and WNET and helped build Video Synthesizers; in 1977 she was west-coast artist/project leader at NASA for SEND/RECEIVE, the first coast-to-coast interactive satellite artist network on the emerging Internet. She has received awards and grants, has exhibited nationally and internationally including the Venice Biennale and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and works at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Sharp Electronics Corporation. Sharp Service Information, Color Monitor/Receiver Model XR-2134. Outstanding Reception the World Over Bibliography

Sharp Electronics Corporation. Sharp Service Information, Color Monitor/Receiver Model XR-2134. Outstanding Reception the World Over. Cover: B&W photograph of television, Electrical Specifications, and office location information. Inside Cover: X-ray Service Precaution, Warning, Chassis Removal with…

Shaun Irons People

Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty are Brooklyn-based media artists who combine video, film, audio and performance to produce installations, single-channel works, documentaries and video scores; their work has been screened on PBS's Reel NY and exhibited internationally. Recent projects include Revolving Twilight at the Chocolate Factory and the live work the horror the horror (Movement Research Festival, Dec 2010; Abrons premiere March 2011). They hold two NYFA fellowships, have grants and residencies including The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, design video for theater and dance, and maintain website www.automaticrelease.org.

Shawn Atkins People

For over a decade, Shawn Atkins has been developing a distinct style of handmade animation to visually narrate dreamlike journeys of inner transformation. In addition to receiving three NYFA Artists' Fellowships in the category of Film, Atkins has been awarded funding for her work from the New York …

Shawn Lawson People

Shawn Lawson is a media artist and programmer whose installations perform real-time animation and video compositing by tracking human presence and motion. His work has been exhibited at venues including ACM Siggraph, IEEE Procams and ACM Multimedia, has toured to Portugal, Brazil, Turkey and Malaysia, and is published in Media in Transition 5 and ACM proceedings. He earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after studying fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University, and is Assistant Professor of Integrated Electronic Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Shawn Onsgard People

Shawn Onsgard (born Wisconsin 1975) is a Brooklyn-based pianist and composer. He develops improvisatory solo piano repertoire influenced by Alexander Scriabin and Vijay Iyer and composes for nontraditional sound sources such as ice cream trucks, hundred meter piano wires and snoring grandparents to examine politics, metaphor, narrative and spatial perception. His work has been performed and exhibited internationally; he has worked with Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier and received grants from Meet the Composer, NYSCA and a NYFA Special Opportunity Stipend; he earned an MA in experimental music composition from Wesleyan University, CT in 2001.

She's Wired for Sound Bibliography

Charlotte Moorman plays the video cello, built by Nam June Paik and Ralph Hocking, at the Everson Museum of Art.

Shedding the Utopian Moment - in Illuminating Video by Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer (eds) Bibliography

A text by Martha Rosler in Illuminating Video (Hall and Fifer).