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Lev Manovich People

Lev Manovich is Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego who teaches new media art and theory and authored The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001) and Tekstura (Chicago University Press, 1993). The Language of New Media has received over 40 reviews and been translated into Italian, Korean and Chinese; his awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002–2003) and fellowships from CalArts, UC Santa Barbara and the Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin. Born in Moscow, he moved to New York in 1981, earned an M.A. (NYU, 1988) and a Ph.D. (University of Rochester, 1993); he has worked with computer media since 1984 and since 2006 directs the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. in Linz.

Libraries Bibliography

1996 Library of Congress Chronology

In March the Library of Congress held hearings in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC for the Study of the Preservation of Television and Video; the hearings conducted a national needs assessment and produced a set of recommendations. Recommendations addressed cataloging, cleaning and remastering, education and storage.

1969 library workshop in Albany Chronology

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds youth projects, library workshop in Albany and programs in several other counties

Light and Darkness in the Electronic Landscape: Some Aspects of the Video Image Tools

Barbara Buckner's lecture, presented at the Collective for Living Cinema in February 1978, analyses the video image's technological and aesthetic properties, describing electron-beam scanning (525 horizontal lines, 30 frames/second, two fields per frame, 1/60th second vertical retrace), tape recording, monitors and sync pulses. She contrasts video and film, discusses video image processors and computer-based video synthesizers (citing Donald E. McArthur, Experimental Television Center, June 1977) and considers implications for storage, automated composition and the artist's role in machine-assisted image-making.

Light Distances: An Eyewitness Report. In At Arm's Length (Osborn) which see Bibliography

Light Work Chronology 1973-1998 Groups

Light Work, founded by Phil Block and Tom Bryan at Syracuse University in 1973, incorporated as a New York State nonprofit on August 26, 1973 and received early funding from NYSCA and the NEA. The chronology documents annual activities from 1973 to 1998, including gallery exhibitions and traveling shows, workshops, lectures, an Artist-in-Residence program, the Light Work Grant and Fine Print/Platinum Editions programs, and the Contact Sheet publication. It records technology additions (color enlarger, Amiga and Macintosh computers), staff changes, the growth of a permanent collection and the establishment of an endowment supporting mid-career artists.

Light Work. Contact Sheet 97, 25th Anniversary Edition Bibliography

Light Work. Contact Sheet 97, 25th Anniversary Edition. The Table of Contents holds the following: Many Hands: Light Work's First 25 Years- essay by Jeffrey Hoone, Whatever Happened to the Alternative Space Movement?- essay by Gary Nickard, Contact with Light Work: Visualizing Personal Memory- essay…

Lightning Over Water Bibliography

A description of Wim Wenders' film Lightning Over Water, depicting his relationship with Nicholas Ray.

Lila Yomtoob People

http://www.www.yomtoob.com

Lilah Freeland People

BA, Bard College; workshops at Film Video Arts. Her installations and performances have been shown at Flame, Zero Space, CBGB Gallery, St. Marks Poetry Project and at Gallapagos, Manhattan Neighborhood Network and the Knitting Factory. She works as assistant with Tony Oursler.

Lillian Schwartz People

Lillian Schwartz was resident artist and consultant at Bell Laboratories (New Jersey) from 1969 to 2002; in the 1970s and 1980s she developed computer-based techniques for artists and made abstract animations combining film, computers and music with collaborators including Kenneth Knowlton. Her films were shown and awarded at Venice Biennale, Zagreb and Cannes and by The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; they received Emmy nominations and awards and are held by institutions including The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lumen and curator Gregory Kurcewicz assembled a touring package that includes restored animations and the 1976 documentary The Artist and the Computer, produced by Larry Keating for AT&T.

1970 Lincoln Center Chronology

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Lincoln Center to organize film programs in 39 upstate communities

Linda Gibson People

Linda Gibson is Executive Director of Medial Alliance and an arts administrator and artist. She worked in distribution at California Newsreel as Director of the African American Perspectives; served as Program Analyst at New York State Council on the Arts (Electronic Media and Film Program) and was Video Technical Director for Women's Interart Center. She taught at California College of Arts and Crafts and held media directorships at Middlesex and Union County Colleges; she co-founded San Francisco experimental media consortium X-Factor, curated for San Francisco Cinemateque/Yerba Buena and the New Jersey Student Film and Video Festival, and her video Last Tape (for my friends) premiered at the 1996 Flaherty Film Seminars.

Linda Iannacone People

Linda Iannacone is an artist, video producer, activist and educator who taught video production, media literacy and visual arts to adults and youth through MNN, Educational Video Center, DCTV, Paper Tiger TV, Henry Street Settlement House and international programs in Vienna and at NGBK. With Paper Tiger TV she produced programs including Drawing the Line at Pittston (covering an 11 month coal miners strike), Staking a Claim in Cyberspace (on changing information technologies and media access), and Rock Paper, Missiles (a critique of U.S. support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine); she also produced the documentary AMOK!, about a radical gender bending circus traveling through New York City communities, and she states a belief in holistic activism employing art, music, voice and action toward social justice.

Lindsay Woodruff People

Lindsay Sampson, BFA Alfred University, is an artist, art educator and small business owner based in Pennsylvania; her art, curatorial, educational and advocacy projects have been presented in the Lehigh Valley (PA), Buffalo (NY), Burlington (VT), Chicago (IL), Miami (FL), Pittsburgh (PA) and Stroudsburg (PA). She served on the board of Squeaky Wheel Media Resource Center and was member/co-owner and membership coordinator at the Nickel City Co-op in Buffalo; her artwork has toured internationally with The Evolutionary Girls Club. She developed art programs for individuals with developmental disabilities, specifically children with Autism, and is a member of the National Art Education Association; website www.onthewingjewelry.com.

Linemaster: America's Foot Switch Leader Catalog 78 Bibliography

Linemaster: America's Foot Switch Leader Catalog 78. Catalog of switches, cords, spped controls, alternative interfaces for media and other machines. Illustrated with desciptions and photographs.

Link Division GPL Television Systems. Singer Education & Training Products. Operation and Service Instruction Manual: Precision 995 Film Chain Television Camera. Handbook Part No. G51460-283A Bibliography

Link Division GPL Television Systems. Singer Education & Training Products. Operation and Service Instruction Manual: Precision 995 Film Chain Television Camera. Handbook Part No. G51460-283A. Table of Contents: Description and Leading Particulars, Installation and Operation, Theory and Maintenance,…

Links to Other Sites with Online Interviews with Video Artists and Activists Interview

The following are links to other sites which publish interviews with artists active in the evolution of the medium. This list is updated periodically; please send us your links and citations. Chris Hill conducted a number of interviews as part of the research for the series Surveying the First Decad…

1991 Linux Chronology

Linus Torvalds develops Linux, a UNIX operating system variant, in Finland.

1983 LISA Chronology

LISA computer introduced by Apple $10,000

Lisa Crafts People

Lisa Crafts is an animator and painter known for richly rendered imagery and a quirky sensibility; her independent animated films range from a meditation on creativity and the human spirit to explorations of human sexuality. Her films have screened in Europe, Japan and North America; commissioned animation work includes Sesame Street and American Movie Classics, and she provided titles and animation for documentaries by Michel Negroponte and Cindy Kleine; her paintings have been exhibited at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in L.A. and Cavin-Morris Gallery in New York City.

Lisa DiLillo People

Lisa DiLillo is an artist based in New York city who makes video installations, videos and photographs; her recent work stages interactions between human constructs and other lifeforms, notably insects and birds engaging automatic voice recognition systems, clocks, diagrams and currency. She received a Jerome Foundation Grant, an Electronic Arts Grant and residencies at The Experimental Television Center, curated the Knitting Factory Video Lounge from 1996–98, and has exhibited at the Walker Art Center; she has collaborated with musicians and dancers Scanner, David Shea and Meg Stuart.

Lisa Steele People

Lisa Steele studied Literature at the University of Missouri and immigrated to Canada in 1968; her videotapes were shown internationally, including the Venice Biennale (1980) and Museum of Modern Art (NYC). She co-founded V tape and FUSE, engaged in anti-censorship from 1980, chaired the New Media Program at the Ontario College of Art and taught video from 1981, and served on the Art Gallery of Ontario Board of Trustees (1993–97). Since 1983 she has collaborated with Kim Tomczak on videotapes, performances and photo/text works; they were surveyed at the AGO (1989–90), won the Bell Canada Award and a Toronto Arts Award in 1993, and premiered The Blood Records at MoMA in 1996.