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Tony Weathers People

Tony Weathers holds an MFA from Cornish College of Arts and served as Technical Assistant to video artist Gary Hill; his exhibitions include Commencement Art Gallery (WA), Schnitt Ausstellungstraum (Germany), Bank of America (WA), SF DRS Television (Germany) and ARTE Television (Germany, France and Switzerland). His awards include an Artist Trust Fellowship and a nomination for Internationaler Medien Kunst Pries at ZKM, Germany.

Tool Links

Directory of web resources for historical and experimental audiovisual technologies; entries include American Magic Lantern Theater (Victorian magic-lantern shows), Early Television Foundation (preservation and restoration of early television receiving and camera equipment), and Quadruplex Park (descriptions and images of early video recording formats). Other listings cover synthesizer history (Moog Archives, Synthmuseum), video-equipment preservation and editing (Lab Guys World, Museum of Early Video Editing Equipment and Techniques), interactive multimedia and authoring tools (Rutt Video Interactive, AudioVisualizers), and obsolete-media and magnetic-data preservation (Dead Media Project, Obsolete, VidiPax).

Tools

In the 1960s media makers confronted technological constraints: early portable video offered limited control over recording and playback, editing systems were expensive and laborious, and special effects such as colorization and superimposition were available only in broadcast studios. Artists working in the time-based medium collaborated with tool designers and engineers to modify commercial equipment and build hand-built imaging instruments that produced novel techniques; the page lists a Tools List and Texts in the biblio database and a Tools Links entry for other web sites.

Tools by Bill Hearn Bibliography

Bill Hearn designed the Vidium, a color‑CRT X‑Y display based on a color modulation system patented in his name; the last Vidium was completed in 1970, used by musicians to generate images from electronic music signals, and was loaned to the Exploratorium. Hearn formed companies including Color Communications and Electronic Coop/Electronic Associates of Berkeley and produced the Hearn Colorizer (Model 100, 1972; Model 200 series, pre‑1975). The Hearn Videolab, conceived with Bill Etra and Steve Rutt in 1975 and citing Don Buchla as an influence, is a modular voltage‑controlled video synthesizer accepting up to six images and integrating genlock, switcher, SEG, colorizer and optional chroma keying.

Tools by George Brown Bibliography

George Brown developed the Video Sequencer (1972), which switched between two video sources at field or frame rate during the vertical interval and could be externally triggered, and the Multi-Level Keyer (1973), a digital sequencer controlling an analog keyer that layered six sources programmable via an external keyboard; the Multi-Level Keyer was constructed for Woody and Steina Vasulka and a computer interface was added in 1977. Brown modified commercial equipment and served as Technical Consultant to Alan and Susan Raymond on The Police Tapes (1976), broadcast by WNET-TV.

Tools, Technology and Access Bibliography

Light Work, formed as a programming affiliate of the Community Darkrooms at Syracuse University, developed public-access darkroom and imaging facilities from the late 1960s and expanded into color printing, xerography and digital imaging. Its programs included residencies and exhibitions such as 1979 Alternative Imaging; a 1989 NYSCA grant funded an Amiga 2000 and the lab converted to Macintosh in 1993; the Light Work Endowment Fund supported portfolios including John Pfahl's 1997 Iris series; the organization launched a website in 1995 and by 1998 had invested over $75,000 in its digital facility.

1972 Top Value Television (TVTV) Chronology

Top Value Television (TVTV) is a San Francisco–based independent documentary production group that provided alternative coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions in Miami; the group achieved the first use of half-inch videotape on broadcast television. Original production was by Hudson Marquez, Allen Rucker, Michael Shamberg, Tom Weinberg, Megan Williams and members of the Ant Farm, Raindance and Videofreex collectives; other members included Wendy Apple, Michael Couzens, Paul Goldsmith, Betsy Guignon, Stanton Kaye, Anda Korsts, Andy Mann and Elon Soltes.

1977 Top Value Television (TVTV) Chronology

Top Value Television (TVTV), San Francisco, founded; Independent documentary production group disbands

Torsten Zena Burns People

Torsten Zenas Burns is a video artist and media arts educator based in Finland. He holds a BFA in video from the New York State College of Art & Design at Alfred University and an MFA in New Genres (video and performance art) from the San Francisco Art Institute. His video, photographs, sculptural i…

Toshio Matsumoto: Spanning Film and Video Bibliography

Total Design: An Essay on Buckminster Fuller Bibliography

Includes B&W photographs of the domes and map of the globe designed for dome formation, as well as Geodesic Structure Classification.

Toward a Noncommercial Technology: The Development of Image-Processed Video in the 1960s and 1970s Bibliography

Toward a Noncommercial Technology: The Development of Image-Processed Video in the 1960s and 1970s

Toward a Television Art Criticism Bibliography

Towards (a definition of) Experimental Music Bibliography

Towards (a definition of) Experimental Music. First section, title above, is composed of the following subsections: Composing, Identity, Time, Performing, Listening, and The Musical Consequences. Section 2, Backgrounds is brokendown into the following segments: Cage's rhythmic structures, Methodolog…

Towards A Primary Differentiation Between Film and Video Tools

Essay argues that film and video, though contemporaneous technologically, differ primarily in phenomenology and ontology: theater versus home viewing, film's irreversible mechanical materiality versus video's reversible electronic parameterization, rather than in quantitative resolution. It compares formats (Super 8mm, 3/4" U‑Matic, HDTV and industrial scanners up to 10,000 lines versus ~500 for commercial TV), links representational differences to psychoanalytic and narratological operations and institutional practice (Chicago Institute of Art), and lists two works: Sleazy and the Year 3000 (1987; sound by Damaged Life; woman: Marlis Schmidt) and Debrisfilm (1989; digital guitar by David Smith).

Towards a Visual Culture: Education through Television Bibliography

Towards a Visual Culture: Education through Television. Table of Contents holds a Preface, Introduction: Educating Televiewers by Educating Telecasters, Who makes television programs? What do they need to know?, Chapter 1: The Medium of Television: What are we looking at? What are we teaching with?,…

1970 Tower Playpen Videospace Troupe Chronology

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Shirley Clarke's Tower Playpen Videospace Troupe, New York City. First New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding to groups exploring the creative use of video.

Tracking Video Art: Image Processing as a Genre Bibliography

Lucinda Furlong, Curatorial Assistant in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Film and Video Department, traces the emergence of image processing as a distinct video-art genre from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s; she examines terminology, aesthetic debates, and the modernist and formalist impulses that shaped the work. The text documents early tool-builders and artists (Dan Sandin, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Eric Siegel, Stephen Beck, Bill Etra, Steve Rutt, Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe), key technologies (video synthesizers, Sandin Image Processor, Rutt-Etra, Moog, Z-Grass), institutions (Whitney Museum, Radical Software, Experimental Television Center, SUNY Binghamton, University of Illinois Circle Campus) and funding developments including a $50,000 NYSCA grant to Hocking's Center.

1951 Transcontinental television broadcasts Chronology

Transcontinental television broadcasts in US.

Transcript from The International Video Art Symposium Bibliography

Transcript from The International Video Art Symposium. Transcript from The International Video Art Symposium. Table of Contents follows: Introduction, Video Artists and Television as a Medium, Support Structure for Artists working with Videotape: Notes, Video Lunch, Making Video: Cable Access, Artis…

1982 Transmission control protocol Chronology

Transmission control protocol TCP established and Internet Protocol for use with ARPANET. This leads to one of the first definitions of an "internet" as a connected set of networks, specifically those using TCP/IP, and "Internet" as connected TCP/IP internets

1999 Transmission: Exhibition Chronology

Transmission was an exhibition at the Bakalar and Huntington Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art, January 25–February 27, 1999. David Atwood is listed as Staff Director, WGBH, 1967–1980; presenters and co-curators included Fred Barzyk (Executive Producer, WGBH/New Television Workshop, 1964–1981), Susan Dowling (Executive Director, NTW, 1982–93) and Michèle Furst (Director, BF/VF, 1978–80), with Chrissie Iles representing the Whitney Museum of American Art. Programming included a special presentation on archiving and preserving video art by Carl Piermarini and Selene Colburn (New Television Workshop Project, Media Archives and Preservation Center, WGBH), a performance by Kristin Lucas, installations by Beryl Korot and Nam June Paik, and videotapes by Nam June Paik, William Wegman, Betsey Connors, Peter Campus and others.

Transmission: Theory and Practice for a New Television Aesthetics Bibliography

A source book on new television theory and practive. Theory; Practice; Distribution. Chronology. Videography. Bibliography.

1971 "Transmitted Environment" Chronology

Woody Vasulka and Steina Vasulka presentation "Transmitted Environment", at the Experimental Television Center

1971 "Transmitted Environment" Chronology

Woody Vasulka and Steina Vasulka presentation "Transmitted Environment", at the Experimental Television Center