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  1. Ed Mellnik People

    Ed Mellnik is a video artist and owner of EMA Video Productions in Portland, Oregon; from 1970 he produced installations and live video performances including A Boob in a Tube/A Nixon Video Ride (SUNY Buffalo, 1970), Emit-Non-Time (SUNY Buffalo, 1974, with Allen Pierce), and Vertical Hold (SW Oregon Museum of Science, 1977). He exhibited work at the US Embassy in Mexico City (1975), Open Gallery Eugene (1979) and NW Artists Workshop Portland (1980), received an Oregon Arts Commission Fellow Grant (1980) and presented at the Portland Art Museum (1983). In 1983–84 he co-created the Chromatizer colorizer with engineer Arlie Conner (seven units built), and in 2002 Oregon Public Broadcasting aired a scenic shot and edited in high definition by Mellnik.

  2. Ed Mellnik People

    Ed Mellnik earned a BA from SUNY Buffalo in 1973 and from 1974 onward has produced short video works and interactive sculptural installations; his early work was made at the Experimental Television Center in New York State. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and was an Oregon Arts Commission Fellow, and several short works were broadcast on KQED with programs aired on The Discovery Channel. He taught computer animation at the NW Film Center, served as artist in residence in Oregon schools, and since 1985 has led EMA Video Productions, Inc., producing animation, TV commercials and corporate training videos for Northwest companies; selected installations include A Boob in a Tube (SUNY Buffalo, 1973) and Backfeed (1974).

  3. Ed Osborn People

    Ed Osborn is a sound and media artist whose installations, sculpture, radio, video, performance and public projects use kinetic and audible systems to explore space, aurality and motion. He has performed, exhibited, lectured and held residencies across the Americas, Europe and Australia and received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, Arts International and Meet the Composer. Residencies include DAAD Artists‑in‑Berlin and Banff Centre; exhibitions include ZKM, Berkeley Art Museum and MassMOCA; he teaches in Brown Universitys Visual Arts Department and is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery.

  4. Ed Tomney People

    Ed Tomney is a composer and visual artist who produced early synthesist projects including The Last Gasp Ensemble and the electronic trio ENVLP; he later developed larger works such as The Mechanical Guitar Orchestra, a robotic ensemble of automated electric guitar sculptures for installation and performance. He composed a series of radio works in Europe (Kunstradio-Radiokunst; Bilder Im Kopf — ORF) and exhibited sound installations in public passage spaces including stairwells, elevators, subway stations and hallways. His solo series Ecotype Transmissions combines reanimated spatial events with live mechanical elements such as motorized transducer fields; he is a member of the analog synthesis collective Analogos, which performs regularly at Diapason Gallery.

  5. Edin Velez, Too Bibliography

  6. Edin Velez: A Romantic Realist Bibliography

  7. 1962 Editec Chronology

    Editec allows frame-by-frame animation on a videotape recorder

  8. Edition Peters. Contemporary Music Catalogue with 1976-1979 Supplement Bibliography

    C. F. Peters Corporation. Edition Peters. Contemporary Music Catalogue with 1976-1979 Supplement. Catalog features artists' handwritten notes and musical repertoire. Institution/Organizer: C. F. Peters Corporation Site: C. F. Peters Corporation Exhibition Dates: 1976-1979 Artist(s): Amram,David Adam…

  9. Editor's Introduction Bibliography

    Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon. Editor's Introduction by Richard Smoley.

  10. Editor's Statement Bibliography

    Editor's Statement in Video: The Reflexive Medium Issue

  11. 1953 Eduard Schueller Chronology

    Eduard Schueller applies for patent on 2 head helical video recorder

  12. Education

    Directory of links to educational programs and projects concerning video history, including an archived NYU Arts Technology Group page (2005). Entries list university departments and research centers (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne; Columbia Center for New Media; Rensselaer iEAR; Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music), museums and institutes (MoMA Video Center; Getty Institute and Getty Research Institute), and community organizations and initiatives. Resources referenced include program descriptions, course and faculty listings, research projects and databases, exhibition and study centers, media literacy collections, and artist residencies and radio facilities at Wave Farm (Acra, NY).

  13. 1974 Educational Communication Centers and the Television Arts Chronology

    Conference Educational Communication Centers and the Television Arts convened at SUNY Albany on November 21-22, 1974; coordinated by Gerald O'Grandy of the Center for Media Study at SUNY Buffalo. The stated purpose was to present developments in the video arts and related technology and to outline ways communication centers can serve developing media artists on their campuses and stimulate media activities in the arts and humanities. Presenters included O'Grady, Steina Vasulka (Center for Media Study, U of Buffalo), Tom DeWitt, Paul Kaufman (NCET at KQED), Fred Barzyk (Television Workshop at WGBH), David Loxton (TV Lab at WNET), Ed Emshwiller, Joel Chadabe and representatives from the Experimental Television Center and NYS Council on the Arts.

  14. 1978 Educational Film Library Association Chronology

    New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds The Educational Film Library Association, New York City, to screen video in the American Film Festival

  15. 1970 Educational Film Library Association (EFLA) Chronology

    New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program awards first grant to Educational Film Library Association (EFLA), under direction of Nadine Covert. Funding to libraries to purchase 16mm foreign, classic and independent films for lending collections.

  16. Edyta Was People

    BA, Academy of Fine Arts, Poland; MFA, Institute of Fine Arts, Belgium. Exhibitions: throughout UK, Netherlands and Poland. I am working with experimental music bands, creating visual images for live performances.

  17. Effects of Television Bibliography

    Leviathan. 16-page article on the effects of television. Front page: An artist's rendering of the American family asleep in front of the television. The mass media in capitalism are private properties before all else. Their prime self-conscious function is profit-making, etc.

  18. Eh, What's Up Doc: If Bugs Bunny and his cartoon companions seem less animated these days, blame it on high costs Bibliography

    Article which features costs of producing animation in the 1970's.

  19. 1969 EIAJ Chronology

    EIAJ standards for 1/2" recording help stabilize the consumer and educational markets, allowing for compatibility among devices

  20. 1969 EIAJ-1 1/2" Chronology

    EIAJ-1 1/2" video recording standard for color

  21. Eidophor Black and White Video Projector Operating Instructions Appendix One for Video and Deflection Chassis Type 250 Bibliography

    Eidophor Black and White Video Projector Operating Instructions Appendix One for Video and Deflection Chassis Type 250. Includes schematics. Note keywords: "Phantastron", "Scanned Oil Film"

  22. Eidophor Fernseh-Grossbild-Projektor (German), with hand-written English annotation on photographs Bibliography

    Eidophor Fernseh-Grossbild-Projektor (German), with hand-written English annotation on photographs. High quality detailed photographs.

  23. Eidophor Large Screen Television Operator Manual (English) Bibliography

    Eidophor Large Screen Television Operator Manual (English). Illustrated with photographs, description, schematics, controls views.

  24. Eidophor Operator's Manual- Copy Bibliography

    Eidophor Black and White Video Projector Operator's Manual. Copy. Illustrated with Controls Views, Operating Procedures, Trouble Shooting.

  25. Eidophor Projector System Log Bibliography

    Eidophor Black and White Video Projector Engineer's Log- Hand Written.