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  1. A History of Video Art Bibliography

    A History of Video Art is a critical introduction and guide to artists' video. It covers the period from the early 1960s - when video art first appeared as a distinctive medium - into the 1990s - when digital technology merged video's distinctive practice with that of independent film-making and pho…

  2. A Look at Castelli-Sonnabend Film and Tape Bibliography

    Distribution

  3. A Man and His Music Bibliography

    ETC and the Ninth Annual Avant Garde Festival.

  4. A Manner of Speaking: An Interview with Gary Hill Interview

    Gary Hill (b. 1951, Santa Monica) is a sculptor and video artist who moved east in 1969 and began making videotapes at Woodstock Community Video in the early 1970s; his work evolved from sculpture and analog/digital image experiments to language-based tapes and multi-monitor installations. He worked with Portapaks, a Siegel colorizer, an analog-to-digital converter and small frame buffer (64x64), and a Rutt/Etra scan processor; notable works include Bathing, Windows, Sums and Differences, Picture Story, Around and About, Videograms, Primarily Speaking, Mesh, Glass Onion and Equal Time. He received production grants from the NEA, NYSCA and WNET, a Rockefeller video artists' fellowship in 1981 and a United States/Japan Exchange fellowship in 1982; the interview was recorded in Barrytown, N.Y., on Oct. 28, 1982 and Jan. 5, 1983.

  5. A Narrative Conceit: From the Academy to the Avant Garde Bibliography

  6. A PDF listing issues of Afterimage from 1972 through Vol 29 Issue 1 Bibliography

    A PDF listing issues of Afterimage from 1972 through Vol 29 Issue 1.

  7. A Pictorial History of the Movies Bibliography

    A Pictoral History of the Movies. Contents follow: Birth and Infancy, Griffith Turns a Page, The Twenties, Come the Revolution, The Talking Picture, Appendix, and Index.

  8. A Profile of Video Art Distributor Anna Canepa Bibliography

  9. A Proposal for Low Cost Retrieval of Early Videotapes Produced on Obsolete Equipment and/or Videotape that Will Not Play Back. Or The Resurrection Bus Preservation

    Proposal from an author at the TV Center to outfit a vehicle with early videotape playback equipment to retrieve reel-to-reel tapes produced from the late 1960s to about 1975; formats cited include several 1/2", 1/4" and possibly 1" tape, with 2" tape handled by commercial services. The plan calls for traveling to owners, sending a tape-cleaning machine ahead, using equipment including Frame Synchronizers, ProcAmps, Magic, Candles and Prayer Rugs, and transferring material to a current videotape format chosen by the owner; transfers would be one-time and tapemakers are expected to participate. The proposer offers to research costs and scope and requests contact by mail at the TV Center.

  10. A Provisional Overview of Artists' Television in the United States Bibliography

  11. A Public Trust. A Summary and Overview of the Findings and Recommendations of the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting. Presented at the Conference Television Makers and Public Communications Policy Bibliography

    A Public Trust. A Summary and Overview of the Findings and Recommendations of the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting. Presented at the Conference Television Makers and Public Communications Policy

  12. A Report on the Use of Video in the College Textbook Industry Bibliography

  13. A Retrospective 1969 to 1980 Bibliography

  14. A Selected Chronology of Computer Art: Exhibitions, Publications, and Technology Bibliography

    A Selected Chronology of Computer Art: Exhibitions, Publications, and Technology

  15. A Short Form Catalog featuring C Series, L Series, I Series DTL and TTL Micrologic Bibliography

    A Short Form Catalog featuring C Series, L Series, I Series DTL and TTL Micrologic. 3 page color catalog illustrated with photographs. Includes prices and descriptions.

  16. 1971 "A Special Videotape Show" Chronology

    A Special Videotape Show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; part of the New American Filmmakers Series organized by David Bienstock. The program presented videotapes by Isaac Abrams, Shridhar Bapat, Stephen Beck, John Randolph Carter, Douglas Davis, Dimitri Devyatkiin, Ed Emshwiller, Richard Felciano, Carol Herzer, Joanne Kyger, Richard Lowenberg, Alwin Nikolais, Nam June Paik with Charlotte Moorman, Charles Phillips, Terry Riley, Eric Siegel, Skip Sweeney, Aldo Tambellini, Steina and Woody Vasulka, WGBH-TV and Robert Zagone.

  17. A Squeaky History Groups

    Squeaky Wheel (also Buffalo Media Resources) formed from community meetings in 1985–87 following the 1985 closure of Media Study/Buffalo; Julie Zando was appointed director and founding members included Tony Conrad and Chris Hill. The organization operated equipment access (SWAP), workshops, internships, a weekly public-access show (Axlegrease) and the seasonal publication The Squealer (first Upstate issue 1988); it obtained NYSCA funding (initial $22,000 in 1986) and additional support from the Buffalo Foundation, Wendt Foundation, Benton Foundation and NEA to purchase equipment including a V5000 camcorder, Hi-8 gear and Macintosh computers. Squeaky Wheel occupied storefronts at 585 Potomac Avenue, 372 Connecticut Street and 175 Elmwood Avenue and organized events such as MediaBuff (1988), a Native American Film/Video Festival (1992) and a Digital Art Interactive show (1993).

  18. A Statement on Video Bibliography

    Ernest Gusella reports making three trips to Europe in the past year to show and lecture on his videotapes at museums, galleries, and art schools; he characterizes his art with an idiosyncratic quartering of influences and describes himself as an eclectic, neo-romantic artist. He argues that video is a new medium with its own aesthetic that obliges artists to transcend clichés; he defends reliance on machines in art and cites Marshall McLuhan. The statement is dated March 1, 1979.

  19. 1982 A SUNY Festival of Film and Video Chronology

    A SUNY Festival of Film and Video at Binghamton University. October 22-24, 1982. Organized by University-wide Programs in the Arts.

  20. A SUNY Festival of Film and Video Bibliography

    October 22-24, 1982 at SUNY Binghamton. Festival program; faculty biographies. Demonstration of General Purpose Interface with Harland Snodgrass and David Jones, a project of the Experimental Television Center and sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts. Video screenings by Ralph Hocking…

  21. A SUNY Festival of Film and Video Bibliography

    November 9-11, 1979 at SUC at New Paltz. The Electronic Image: A System Installation - a demonstration of a videoimage processing system, including Jones Colorizer.

  22. A Survey of Alternative Video Part 2 Bibliography

  23. A Survey of Alternative Video Part I Bibliography

  24. A Syntax of Binary Images: An Interview With Woody Vasulka Bibliography

  25. A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television Bibliography

    A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television. Contents follow: Part I: Autobiographical Reminiscences, Part II: Historical Papers- Motion Pictures, with subsections: A. Early Film Technology, B. Cinematography and Film Stocks, C. Laboratory Practice, D. Sound Motion Pictures, and Part I…