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1981 The Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium Chronology
The Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium (TAEMAC) was started in 1980-81 as the Black Maria Film Festival with the endorsement of the Edison National Historic Site .
The TV Aesthetic Bibliography
The TV Commercial: Getting from There to Here Bibliography
The UnNecessary Image Bibliography
2003 The Unprofessionals Chronology
The Unprofessionals, curated by Lindsay Sampson, is a program of videos, drawings and performances by 20+ artists influenced by the films Clerks, Clockwatchers, Office Space and Slackers; it was exhibited at Cinema Borealis (Chicago), Squeaky Wheel (NY) and Garfield Artworks (PA). The interactive video screening addresses the trials and tribulations of worker weirdos and whiners and stages moments akin to shout-outs at adolescent dances; featured artists include Lindsay Sampson, Flea Batista and Torsten Zenas Burns among others. Much of the work was produced at the Experimental Television Center in Owego NY.
1994 The Upstate Cataloging Project Chronology
The Upstate Cataloging Project meets in Rochester in August with Margaret Byrne, Director of NAMID. Representatives of ETC, Hallwalls, Syracuse University, and Visual Studies Workshop. This results in the adopting of a NAMID-compatible template, designed to allow conversion to USMARC.
1995 The Upstate Cataloging Project Chronology
The Upstate Cataloging Project holds a training session in May, supported by Media Alliance and led by Jim Hubbard, associated with Anthology Film Archives, with assistance from Henry Mattoon, Director of NAMID
The Upstate Issue Primer: Buffalo, the Media Alliance and the Emergence of a Surprising New Decentralized Media Discourse Bibliography
The Vasulka Imaging System, LSI-11 Bibliography
The Vasulka Imaging System, LSI-11. Manual contents follow: Cover letter by The Vasulkas (03.07.1978), Preliminary Documentation of the Imaging Bus (Overall System Documentation, Subsystem Description, Programming Information (forthcoming), Theory of Operation (forthcoming)), Gating Window Patterns …
The Video Art of Takahiko Iimura Bibliography
Takahiko Iimura, a leading non-commercial Japanese film artist since the early 1960s, moved toward conceptual film in the early 1970s with works including Film Strips (1969), Film Strips II (1969), Counting, 1 to 100 or Xs (Models, Reel 2, 1972) and 24 Frames Per Second (1978). He began video work in 1970 and developed syntactical and closed-circuit pieces—Camera, monitor, Frame (1976), the Observer/Observed series (1975–76), I=YOU=HE/SHE (1979), TV FOR TV/TV Confrontation (1983), Self-Introduction (1982) and other tapes and installations—using portapaks and later formats (Betcams, VHS, Video8) with cameras, monitors, switchers and headphones; writings and exhibition documentation cited include Art & Cinema (1978), Asahi Shimbun (1976), the Whitney Museum catalog (1979) and The Soho Weekly News (1979).
The VIdeo Artist as Engineer Bibliography
The Video Colorizer: 3,627,912 "Visual Display of Complex Color Television Sound Wave Signals" Bibliography
Video Colorizer designed by Bill Hearn. Illustration of front panel with description: "The Video Colorizer is capable of simultaneously adding color to a monochrome video signal and total modification of gray scale. This instrument allows the operator to divide the gray scale of video into four or m…
1984 The Video Data Bank Chronology
The Video Data Bank presented The Science of Fiction The Fiction of Science and on September 7th and 8th, 1984 produced the first Video Drive-In in Grant Park, Chicago; a 40" video projection transformed the Petrillo Band Shell into a video drive-in over two evenings. The programs showcased videotape works by a roster of artists and performers including Jackie O., Michael Smith, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, Ed Paschke and Joan Logue.
The Video Guide. Third Edition Bibliography
Technical descriptiop of operation of video equipment
The Video Issue Bibliography
The Video Primer: Equipment, Production and Concepts Bibliography
The Video Primer: Equipment, Production and Concepts Bibliography
Technical descriptions of how video works.
The Video Scene Bibliography
The Video Stretch Bibliography
The Video Stretch
The Video Synthesizer - Review of Existing Synthesizers, excerpted from "Design Device" Tools
Tom Dewitt presents the Design Device, a proposed video synthesizer to be controlled by a mini-computer reading a formatted picture language; the instrument is intended to perform video synthesis and signal processing and to let artists prepare and record programs on paper. He reviews existing vector and intensity-based synthesizers and modular, matrix, and computer-controlled patch systems, citing Rutt/Etra, Stephen Beck, Dan Sandin, EMS Ltd., Computer Image Corp., Vector General, Arp, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Don Buchla and Bell Labs. Planned features include memory oscillators for arbitrary wipes, an outline generator to reduce volumes to lines, rotation via low-frequency sine-cosine control voltages, and colorization approaches using luminance, chrominance and hue.
The Video Underground Bibliography
The Video Window of Davidson Gigliotti Bibliography
The Video Work of Richard Foreman Bibliography
1974 The Videofreex Chronology
The Videofreex produce The Spaghetti City Video Manual, published by Praeger. The Spaghetti City Video Manual is a practical handbook on video production.
1973 The Videola Chronology
The Videola, designed by Don Hallock, was displayed at the San Francisco Museum of Art in September 1973; the exhibition presented videotaped works by Don Hallock, William Gwin (Irving Bridge, with original music by Warner Jepson) and others. The program also included a live performance featuring Stephen Beck on the Direct Video Synthesizer and Don Hallock providing sound on the Buchla Electric Music Box.