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1993 Film Preservation Center Chronology

Groundbreaking for the Film Preservation Center of the Museum of Modern Art.

1966 Film Program Chronology

Film Program established at New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). First government funded touring film program, funds for media in schools, and for film rentals and guest speakers.

1968 Film Program Chronology

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program, international short film exhibition at the NY State Fair in Syracuse

1977 Film Program Chronology

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program expands and formalizes film production funding

Film Program Bibliography

Listing of current exhibitions, including 1981 and 1983 Whitney Biennials (1983 video exhibition: Barbara Buckner, Gary Hill, Bill Viola, Shalom Gorewitz. Rental and Sales information

1967 Film Project Chronology

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Project is reorganized as Film Program. Supports film tours, production training, equipment access and film appreciation.

Film Technique Bibliography

Film Technique. Five Essays and Two Addresses by V. I. Pudovkin. Translated and Annotated by Ivor Montagu, enlarged edition. Contents break down into the following parts: I. The Film Scenario and Its Theory including Foreword, Part I. The Scenario, and Part II. The Plastic Material, II. Film Directo…

Film: An Introduction Bibliography

Film: An Introduction. Contents follow: Introduction, Part I. Understanding Film, Part II. Film Elements, Part III. How Films are Made, Part IV. Film Theory and Criticism, Part V. Film and the Future, Appendix A: A Selected List of American Film Reference Publications, Appendix B: A Selected List of…

Film: Real to Reel Bibliography

Film: Real to Reel. Contents follow: The Shot, Motion, Editing, Rhythm, Light, Color, Sound, The Director, Genre, Documentary, Animation, Now-Film, Filmmaking, and Glossary: Film Terms.

Film/Culture: Explorations of Cinema in its Social Context Bibliography

Film/Video Arts Groups

Film/Video Arts began in 1968 when educators Rodger Larson and Lynne Hofer with filmmaker Jaime Barrios introduced 16mm equipment to Latino youth; it incorporated as the Young Filmakers Foundation and expanded after a major 1970 grant. In 1971 it opened the Media Equipment Resource Center (MERC) in a West 53rd Street basement to provide free production and postproduction services; it consolidated activities at 4 Rivington Street in 1973 and shifted focus to adults by 1978. Its founder's mission to make media tools and skills available remains its guiding force.

1962 Filmmaker's Co-op Chronology

Filmmaker's Co-op founded, New York City

1973 Filmmaker's Co-op Chronology

First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Filmmaker's Co-op, New York City. Funds for film exhibition.

Films That Tell Time: A Ken Jacobs Retrospective Bibliography

Films That Tell Time: A Ken Jacobs Retrospective. Contents follow: Introduction by David Schwartz, Films that Tell Time: The Paradoxes of the Cinema of Ken Jacobs by Tom Gunning, Is Tom Gunning for me? by Ken Jacobs, Program Notes by Ken Jacobs, Interview with Ken Jacobs, Poetry, Fiction and other W…

Final Report to the National Endowment of the Arts Tools

Final Project Report to the National Endowment of the Arts concerning control structures for digital computers used in art-making; the report contrasts analog and digital approaches and proposes rich non-linguistic inputs and the simulation of analog systems within digital computing. The project team recorded roughly eight years of preliminary use of slide potentiometers, dials, joysticks and data tablets, diagnosed limited human-computer degrees of freedom, and set goals to create dynamic, flexible, user-programmable multidimensional controls with constructive feedback that are easy to construct, documentable for moderate electronic skills and affordable. The work produced four device categories: pressure-sensitive keyboards, sensing clothing, force-feedback dials and time-based computer variables.

Final Report to the National Endowment of the Arts: Analog Computers Bibliography

"Analog computers have been much more successful as tools for the creative artist than digital computers. Analog computers are quite successfully used in music and more recently, in video art. Most of the current work in digital computer art suffers from a real lack of fluidity in control, which is …

1971 Finch College Museum of Art Chronology

First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to Finch College Museum of Art. Funding for video.

1990 Finishing Funds Chronology

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts; awards for 1990 were made to a range of artists and projects. The record lists recipients and project titles, including Merrill Aldighieri and Joe Tripician (Metaphoria); Mara Alper (Silent Echoes); Carl Geiger (Rubble Tumble, installation); Stephanie Rowden (Cabinet of Rhymes & Riddles, installation); and a panel featuring Raymond Ghirardo and Arthur Tsuchiya.

1991 Finishing Funds Chronology

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1991 were made to numerous artists and collaborative teams with projects listed alongside recipients, including Benton Bainbridge (Contact); Joan Boccino (Mom Makes Lasagna); Bill & Mary Buchen (Electric Village); Christopher Burke (El Patron); Norman Cowie and Trish Rosen (It's a Proud Day for America); the program included a panel of Shu Lea Cheang, Robery Doyle, and Philip Mallory Jones.

1992 Finishing Funds Chronology

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center supported by the New York State Council on the Arts; awards for 1992 were made to a range of individual artists and collaborative teams for named works. Recipients listed include Karim Ainouz (Seams), Basha Alperin (Children in Junkanoo), Robert Attanasio (Whitewash USA), Ellen Braune and Nina Alverez (Crossing Boundaries), Kevin O'Shaughnessy (Allegheny County: The First Stand) and Carlos Ortiz (Spirit of Survival: AIDS in the Prisons). The award panel included Larry Gottheim, Chris Hill and Pam Jennings.

1993 Finishing Funds Chronology

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts; awards for 1993 were made to a number of artists and projects, including Mara Alper (Stories No One Wants to Hear), Kelly Anderson (Because Reality Isn't Black & White), Maria Beatty (Imaging Her Erotics) and Skip Blumberg (Weekend in Moscow). The record lists additional recipients and works across documentary, experimental and video art practices; a panel is noted with Rii Kanzaki and Carlota Schoolman.

1994 Finishing Funds Chronology

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1994 were made to numerous artists and organizations; recipients include Pat Abt (Requiem Songs: For the Victims of Nationalism), Vivek Renjen (Bald Taxi-vala), Don Bernier (Suture), David Blair (Wax: The Discovery of Television Among the Bees), Steve Bradley (Liberty and Justice for (which)all(?)), Lawrence Brose (CAGE: A FilmicCircus), Grace Lee (Camp Arirang), Jeffrey Lerer (Memory Box II & III) and a panel by Anne Fergerson and Mona Jimenez.

1996 Finishing Funds Chronology

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts; awards for 1996 were made to individual artists and small teams for projects in 35mm and 16mm film, super-8, video, CD ROM, Quicktime movies, computer animation and mixed-media installations, including works by Shawn Atkins (Frame by Frame Fierce), Zoe Beloff (Beyond), Alan Berliner (Found Sound) and Elizabeth Rodgers (The Exodus 1947 Project). A panel included Peer Bode and Ken Jacobs.

1997 Finishing Funds Chronology

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts; awards for 1997 were made to numerous artists including Diane Brown, Luca Buvoli, Ethan Crenson, Jonathan Mednick and others. Recipients produced videos, films, installations, animation and a multi-media interactive CD Rom addressing subjects such as adolescence, identity, memory, domestic computing, internet collaboration, historical events and Holocaust memory. Projects used technologies ranging from 1950s TV sets and lo-tech materials to real-time internet participation and CD-Rom interactivity; a panel featured Pia Cseri-Briones and Jim Hubbard.

1998 Finishing Funds Chronology

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center supported by the New York State Council on the Arts; awards for 1998 were made to a range of video, film and multimedia artists including Alan Berliner, Anita Cheng, Abigail Child and others. Projects include web-based sonic art, digital video performance, 16mm film, multi-monitor and four-channel installations; several projects received additional funding from New Television's NTV Artbytes, Fulbright, the Banff Center, NYSCA, the Wexner Center, Art Matters, the Jerome Foundation, the Calvin Klein Foundation, the McAlpin Charitable Trust, the NY Community Trust and the Stonewall Community Foundation. A panel featuring Barbara Lattanzi and Vincent Grenier is noted.