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  1. 1976 Eric Siegel Chronology

    Processing Chrominance Synthesiser Model 100 designed by Eric Siegel and distributed by Siegel Electronics, Brooklyn 1976

  2. Eric Siegel People

    Eric Siegel, born 1944 in New York City, won Second Prize in the 1960 NYC Science Fair for a homemade closed circuit television and an Honorable Award in 1961 for Color through Black and White TV while a student at Samuel Gompers Vocational and Technical High School; after graduating he worked in closed circuit television and at the University of London Educational Television Department. He later designed and built special effects components for artists and is credited with conceiving and executing the Siegel Colorizer.

  3. Eric Singer and Taylor Kuffner People

    Eric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer and the founder of LEMUR; he holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, a Diploma in Music Synthesis (Magna Cum Laude) from Berklee College of Music, and an MS in Computer Science from New York University. He has over 20 years of arts and multimedia programming, engineering and performance experience in interactive performance systems, integrated music and graphics systems, alternative controller design, networked multimedia environments, interface design, artificial intelligence and computer controlled pyrotechnics; he has performed and lectured throughout the U.S. and Europe and is known internationally for his interactive software and hardware projects.

  4. Erica Eaton People

    Erica Eaton is a video/installation artist working and living in upstate New York; she has shown work in the United States and internationally. Her work combines experimental and documentary approaches to address the subjectivity of human experiences and to represent and give voice to those experiences; much of her work engages feminist ideas and strives to disempower patriarchy by calling attention to it. Her practice is described as done in the spirit of inclusivity, empowerment and revolution and challenges ideas around truth, reality and meaning.

  5. Ericka Beckman People

    Ericka Beckman holds a B.F.A. from Washington University and an M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts; her recent exhibitions include TODI Cinema (Budapest), Rotterdam Film Festival, NGBK (Berlin), Stockholm International Film Festival, Montreal International Festival of New Media and Cinema, L'Alternativa Festival (Barcelona), Viper Festival (Lucerne), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Art Institute of Chicago, University of Southern California, BAM Music Hall (Brooklyn, NY) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Her listed publications include Artist Space: 20 Years (edited by Valarie Smith, MIT Press), Processed Lives, Gender and Technology in Everyday Life (edited by Jennifer Terry & Melodie Calvert, Routledge Press) and Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation.

  6. Erik Barnouw People

    Erik Barnouw (1908–2001) was a media historian and professor emeritus of dramatic arts at Columbia University; his publications include History of Broadcasting (1966), Documentary (1974), Tube of Plenty (1982), The International Encyclopedia of Communication (1989) and Conglomerates and the Media (1997), and his memoir Media Marathon was published in 1996 by Duke University Press. He coedited the Temple University Press series Wide Angle Books with Ruth Bradley and Scott MacDonald and Fordham University Press published Media Lost and Found; obituary by Patricia Zimmerman appeared in Afterimage (September 2001) http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2479/is_2_29/ai_78437065

  7. Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager People

    Erik Moskowitz makes installations and films that examine the relationship between cinema space and gallery space; solo installation exhibitions at Momenta Art, Freight and Volume, Holiday (NYC) and Le Sous Salon (Paris); festival screenings at Impakt (Netherlands), Antimatter (Canada), Oberhausen (Germany), Experimenta (India), Press Play (Carnegie Mellon) and Experiments in Cinema (University of New Mexico); website http://www.americantrance.com/. Amanda Trager combines painting, sculpture and installation with first-person prose narrative; solo exhibitions at Momenta Art, Annika Sundvik (NYC), Clifford-Smith Gallery (Boston) and Le Sous Salon (Paris); group shows include Brooklyn Museum's Open House, NextNext Visual Art program at BAM, White Box gallery and Feature gallery (NYC); both live and work in NYC.

  8. Erika Yeomans People

    Erika Yeomans is a director/writer of video, film and performance who was Artistic Director of the performance collective Doorika from 1989 to 1999 and produced and directed over 17 original theater productions that toured the United States. Since 1999 she has focused on filmmaking; notable works include THE FORGERY (2000), screened internationally and broadcast in Japan in 2002, CHUBBY BUDDY presented at AC Project Room in 2001 and later made into a short film, and the installation Cardboard, Vinyl, Rhinestones: The Denim Fiancé (1999) with Virgil Marti.

  9. Ernesto Klar People

    Ernesto Klar is a new media artist and educator based in New York City. Klar's works have been presented at Eyebeam, Pulse Art Fair, and Chelsea Art Museum in New York City, the CCCB in Barcelona (Spain), the FILE Festival in Sao Paulo, the Oi Futuro Museum in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the Centrum Ku…

  10. Ernesto Livon-Grosman People

    Ernesto Livon-Grosman, born in Argentina and based in the United States, teaches film and literature at Boston College; he directed Cartoneros, a feature-length documentary portraying the process of informal recycling in Buenos Aires and examining links among recurrent social and political crisis, economic disintegration, and globalization affecting Argentina during the last 50 years. He is currently working on a series of short documentaries on the history of South American visual poetry.

  11. Ernie Gehr People

    Ernie Gehr began making films in regular 8mm in the 1960s and has completed more than 24 films. A self-taught artist, he wrote in January 1971 that film is a real thing; his films have had retrospectives at MoMA and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, has taught at San Francisco Art Institute, and in March 1995 received the Adaline Kent Award Exhibition, including an honorarium and solo exhibition; he and Bruce Conner are the only two filmmakers to have received the award.

  12. Ernie Gusella People

    Ernest Gusella is a video artist whose videotapes combine experimental engineering, avant garde music, psychedelia and Dadaist theater; he immigrated from Canada to the United States and studied with John Cage, Steve Reich and Constantine Xenakis. He associated with Nam June Paik and Steina and Woody Vasulka; many tapes use sound and image processing tools, including Bill Hearn's VideoLab used in the 1978 Exquisite Corpse. Other works include Audio-Video Rituals and Violin D'Ingres; Gusella lives in Cumberland, MD with his wife and collaborator Tomiyo Sasaki and lists http://www.weirdshadow.com/reverse.html.

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  14. Esther Robinson People

    Esther Robinson has just begun her career as a director but she worked on behalf of America's artists for over 14 years in many capacities, including foundation program officer, television and film producer, and technology entrepreneur. Esther has a film and television degree from NYU's Tisch School…

  15. ETC 1972-73 Tools

    While working for the Experimental Television Center the author and David built the first four Jones Frame Buffers; the pictured unit is the author's and may be the only one remaining in the original card rack after David rewired most into newer, larger boxes. The unit adds second-level control and 2v differential video inputs and output with a plexiglass panel; it was initially controlled by a Sinclair ZX81 with programs saved to audio tape and later adapted for control from an Amiga 1000. The buffer includes an internal keyer, four memory boards providing 64 frames and a pseudo-color option; Amiga Basic routines were compiled to C but required unbuilt libraries for blank switching, producing noisy routines.

  16. ETC 1973-74 Tools

    This Jones video synthesizer is comprised nearly exclusively of Jones designs. This synth includes a video patch panel made of an inset piece of hardwood with mini-jacks carrying 2vpp differential video (subsequent modules use Plexiglas). The advantages of this standard is that it limits crosstalk a…

  17. ETC Brochure Bibliography

  18. ETC Computer System User's Guide and Documentation (Master), Large Blue Binder Bibliography

    ETC Computer System User's Guide and Documentation, Large Blue Binder. Includes Schematics for Z80 Timing, Dynamic Memory Boards, "An Introduction to CP/M Features and Facilities" (35 pages), "Ed:A Context Editor for the CP/M Disk System User's Manual" (16 pages), "CP/M Assembler (ASM) User's Guide"…

  19. ETC History  2008 - 2009

    The Experimental Television Center, founded in 1971 from a 1969 Binghamton University media access program by Ralph Hocking, operates an international Residency Program, grants and artist sponsorships and maintains the online Video History Project. The residency has assisted over 1,500 artists since 1971 and in 2008–09 hosted over 50 artists from 11 states, the UK and Canada, providing a hybrid analog/digital image-processing system with Apple computers, Doepfer modules and software including Max/MSP, Jitter and Pluggo. ETC administers Finishing Funds and Presentation Funds, has awarded over $1 million through its Grants Program since 1989, and conducts preservation, digitization and publication projects with support from NYSCA, the Daniel Langlois Foundation, NEA, mediaThe foundation and other funders.

  20. ETC History 1968-1971

    Ralph Hocking began the Student Experiments in Television project at Binghamton University, introducing community members to portable video production tools and techniques. In 1969 Angel Nunez taped Bedford Stuyvesant Kids, a street-tape documenting neighborhood kids arrested after stealing; the tape was shown widely in the State, broadcast by WNET-TV, and helped fund drug-related and inner-city improvement projects. With support from the New York State Council on the Arts Hocking incorporated SET as the Community Center for TV Production in a downtown Binghamton loft; programs emphasized production training and meetings with Nam June Paik led to support for imaging-tool development.

  21. ETC History 1971-73

    History 1971-72 Funding was received from the New York State Council on the Arts for construction of the Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer. One system was designed and built in 1972 at the Center by Shuya Abe and Nam June Paik for eventual placement at the TV Lab at WNET-TV. This system was used while stil…

  22. ETC History 1973-75

    David Jones became technician at the Center; artists in residence included Taka Iimura, Doris Chase and Michael LV Butler, and the Center ran regular workshops on video production, imaging and synthesis. NYSCA funded traveling performances by Waiter Wright and supported development of the Jones Colorizer and installation of an oscillator bank; workshops and performances took place at The Kitchen, Anthology Film Archives and the Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal. In Spring 1975 Dr. Don McArthur developed the SAID (Spatial and Intensity Digitizer), and David Jones, Don McArthur and Waiter Wright began a computer-based imaging project initially based on an LSI-11; artists in residence included Neil Zusman and Gary Hill.

  23. ETC History 1975-77

    1975–77 the Residency Program included Nam June Paik and Phil Jones (Ithaca Video Projects) and received National Endowment for the Arts support in 1975 for initial computer-video processing research. The LSI-11 was chosen; Jones developed keyers, a sequential switcher and the Jones Colorizer, a commercial SEG was modified and a 64-point matrix was built, and manuals and Paik Raster Control Unit information were produced and expanded by 1985; Cloud Music (Robert Watts, David Behrman, Bob Diamond) presented at Center, Video by Videomakers began, the computer was installed for artist use and regional school workshops were held with Binghamton's Roberson Center.

  24. ETC History 1977-79

    1977-78: NYSCA funding supported David Jones and Richard Brewster in developing the Analog Control Box, enabling production of electronic sounds and signals that controlled video parameters; a computer project proceeded with assistance from Paul Davis, then director of the student computer lab and instructor at the School for Advanced Technology at SUNY-Binghamton. Artists in residence included Shalom Gorewitz, Sara Hornbacher, Hank C. Linhart and Hank Rudolph; workshops were conducted for the City of Binghamton, Headstart, Tri Cities Opera, the 4H Program and the Center for Media Studies at Buffalo.

  25. ETC History 1979-81

    1979–80 equipment at the Center included a Z-2 8-bit computer with an S-100 bus, dual floppy drives and a CAT digital frame buffer; a Z-80 was also interfaced to an analog box and software development for video uses began. Artists in residence during 1979–81 included Alan Powell, Connie Coleman, Charles Atlas, Victor Velt, Jud Yalkut, Ren Weidenaar, Dan Reeves, Jon Hilton, Celia Shapiro and Peter D'Agostino; The Electronic Workshop series was presented to 17 organizations around New York State and the Center moved to Owego; in 1980–81 David Jones developed the Print Program for disk-captured videographic still frames with variable gray-level printing and additional software was produced by graduate interns under Paul Davis and Ralph Hocking.