Events by Year

With the assistance of the Daniel Langlois Foundation in 2004, as well as by the New York State Council on the Arts, we are focused presently on early video/media instruments - those tools designed individually or by artists and technologists working collaboratively, as well as innovative commercial devices. This research links associated texts, documentation, technical data, maker biographies and interviews, and tapes produced on these systems. Content derives from our tool and paper archives. We are electronically photographing the devices, and in some cases, creating moving image records of the functioning of the tool. We are scanning associated texts, documentation, and ephemera related to events which include posters, exhibition program notes, exhibition catalogs; and audio and video interviews. The data would be published on the existing History Project Website

Experimental Television Center offers the 9th workshop. Instructors: Pamela Susan Hawkins and Hank Rudolph.

Strengthening the Media Arts in New York State - A Statewide Media Arts Convening and NAMAC Regional Meeting, partnership of Experimental Television Center, WAMC and the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts. About 30 media arts and advocacy groups from around the State will be invited for one day of discussion surrounding issues of critical interest to the communities, and a second day devoted to one of four NAMAC think tank meetings held across the country each year.

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts. With an award in 2003 from mediaThe foundation, Finishing Funds is supporting 5 special awards for new media and intermedia performance works. Awards for 2003 were made to: Peter Bianco "Games for Two" a hand-processed 16mm film. Roddy Bogawa "I was born, but..." a 16mm film which begins with the death of Joey Ramone and punk music, and becomes a reflection on my life as an artist, and the issue of assimilation of Asian Americans as well as how culture is constituted. Abigail Child "Cake and Steak" an hour length series of 16mm films and digital projections that focus on post WW II North American suburbs, critically seen through the lens of colonialism, gender and immigration. Carrie Dashow "10 Cameras, 60 minutes" 10 channel video installation, part of a series of video/performance pieces, each involving different numbers of individuals who act as moving cameras, negotiating specific spaces at pre-assigned timecodes, recording the paths they are moving through, the intersections they pass, and the process of finding each other again through a...

The Unprofessionals, curated by Lindsay Sampson, consists of videos, drawings, and performances by 20+ artists whose work seems to have been influenced by the movie generation of; Clerks, Clockwatchers, Office Space, and Slackers. Exhibition at Cinema Borealis (Chicago), Squeaky Wheel (NY), Garfield Artworks (PA). This interactive video screening relates to the trials and tribulations of worker weirdos and whiners. The works present a look at all those kids who had to grow up, act normal, go to work, and hide their supposed flaws, and the grown ups who still find ways to be a little uninhibited. The viewer walks in on a "shout out", like by the DJ at your best friend's 15th birthday party, or at those dances in junior high, to all those kids and adults, those amateurs and unprofessionals who are in need of encouragement. This show is a place where the audiences' vulnerabilities are on their best behavior. Fe a t u r i n g Lindsay Sampson, Flea Batista, Torsten Zenas Burns, Anthony Discenza, Monica Duncan, Caleb Durand, Ron Ehmke, Stephanie Gray, K8 Hardy, Jesse Hulcher, Caroline Koebel, Meg Knowles, Jody Lafond, Annie Langan, Darrin Martin, Brian Milbrand, Brighid Anastasia O'...

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 2002 were made to: Leesa and Nicole Abahuni "Chaotic Robotic Synesthesia" a performance environment investigating a synthesthetic experience, the subjective response normally associated with one sense by stimulation of another; performative elements include 2 infrared robots, 7 human musicians and 2 human animators. Zoe Beloff "Claire and Don in Slumberland" a stereoscopic slide and film projection performance conjuring up spectral scenes, referring to the Phantasmagorias at the end of the 18th century where moving magic lanterns images of the French Revolution were projected onto smoke Torsten Burns "The Bodyspace Program" a collection of improvisational scenes linked by speculative content... post earth humans exploring family, sexuality, hygiene and humor in fictional space environments and organic/inorganic architectural surroundings Abigail Child and Benton Bainbridge "Subtalk" a digital response to September 11th and the ensuing period of state surveillance and popular paranoia Norman Cowie "Scenes From an Endless War" an experimental...

Looking Back/Looking Forward, a symposium intended as a working session where artists, media arts staff, conservators, and technical experts will focus on the physical preservation of independent electronic media May 31-June 1, 2002. The symposium is organized by the Experimental Television Center (ETC) in association with Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP), Bay Area Video Coalition and the Electronic Media Specialty Group of the AIC (American Institute for the Conservation of Artistic and Historic Works). Looking Back/Looking Forward is hosted by the Downtown Community Television Center and is made possible with public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the NYS Council on the Arts, and assistance from IMAP and Dave Jones Design. The symposium is organized by Sherry Miller Hocking, Assistant Director of the Experimental Television Center, and independent consultant Mona Jimenez

Alan Berliner releases "The Sweetest Sound", with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arte France, ITVS, the Righteous Persons Foundation, British Broadcasting Corporation; TV 1, Finland; New York Foundation for the Arts. The film has been exhibited on POV; Visions du Reel, Switzerland; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington; SXSW Film Festival; BBC2, London; Austin, Texas; Taos Talking Picture Festival; Berlin Film Festival. Exhibitions at "Eye and Though: Jewish Autobiography in Film and Video" at NYU Center for Media, Culture and History.

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 2001 were made to: Robert Attanasio "belongings" - A mournful music video for missing persons and unclaimed baggage. Luca Buvoli "Trailer for Not A Superhero's Non Adventures" - Part of a longer work dealing with an early fascination with the mythology of the superhero, this DVD work mimics and subverts the structure of the trailer by the introduction of complex philosophical issues Nancy Goldenberg "bedscape" - I escape from my 4th story apartment window and into the streets of NY carrying my bed on my back. A multimedia project with performance, video, installation and a web site. Stephanie Gray "Is This City Disappearing" - This Super 8 film is a poetic document of the decaying urban landscape in Buffalo. Thomas Allen Harris "That's My Face" - An autobiographical documentary, shot on Super 8mm film, exploring black identity in the USA, Brazil and Africa. Denise Iris "100 Mini Mentals" - This website brings art into the workplace and features 2 short videos each week mini mentals for one year. Jeffrey Lerer "Manuscript Fragments Found at...

Jeanne Liotta exhibition at Anthology Film Archives. June 8, 2001

Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on variable Media at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on March 30th and 31st, 2001.The focus of the conference is the museum's Variable Media Initiative, a radical new solution to the contested issues of new media preservation. Preserving the immaterial will examine case studies of artworks in a variety of ephemeral media, ranging from photo collages and film performances to video installations and Web sites. Artists, curators, conservators, and media experts will debate strategies for safeguarding these works against deterioration, technological obsolescence, and cultural amnesia. Organized by John G. Hanhardt, Senior Curator, and Jon Ippolito, Assistant Curator, Film and Media Arts Program of the Guggenheim Museum. Artists' works studied include those of Jan Dibbets, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ken Jacobs, Robert Morris, Mark Napier, Nam June Paik, and Meg Webster.

"History Lessons" by Barbara Hammer is a reconstruction on film of lesbian history dating back to the very dawn of cinema. Supported in part by an award from the New York State Council on the Arts administered by the Experimental Television Center.

Benton C Bainbridge presented Triggers at The Kitchen, December 7-23, 2000. Jukebox by Aaron Cantor, Spatialistics by the housofouch. An interactive jukebox stocked from a suite of analog-synthesized videos. Support from the Experimental TV Center.

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 2000 were made to: Zoe Beloff "Shadow Land or Light from the Other Side" - a stereoscopic film investigation into the relationship between imagination and cinema technology, depicting the experience of a medium, Elizabeth d'Eperance, as a kind of mental projector, conjuring up specters for her clients Richard Bloes "Night Space" - a laserdisc installation using domestic materials to present a cosmology which explores how technology effects domestic space Lawrence Brose "Crossing" - experimental film exploring the erotic politics of sailor hazing rituals Anita Cheng "Daily Dance" - a year long dance constructed of daily works, presented interactively on the Web David Crawford "International Velvet" - a Web exploration of the ancient language of flags and the root and future of these visual forms of communication Brian Frye "Wormwood's Dog and Monkey Show" - a 16mm film composed of the discarded fragments of films, scraps of leader and laboratory remnants and remains of half started and abandoned projects by unknown filmmakers Neil Goldberg "...

These Are Not My Images (neither there nor here) was produced by Irit Batsry during an residency at the Academy of Media Arts,Cologne, in association with La Sept/ARTE with support from the Department of Fine Arts(French Ministry of Culture). Made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, The Experimental TV Center, Central St. Martins College of Arts (London), Grand Canal (Paris), The Lux Center (London). Soundtrack by Stuart Jones. 80 min., 2000. Mastered on D1. Projection formats include 35 MM, Digital Betacam, BetacamSP

Dream Reels: VideoFilms and Environments by Jud Yalkut. Whitney Museum of American Art. November 4 - December 3, 2000. "Vision Cantos, 2000" produced at the Experimental Television Center.

Installation Works by Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo. Exhibited at Charleston Heights Arts Center (NC), at Las Vegas Cultural Arts Center (NV) and at Handwerker Gallery (Ithaca, NY).

Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Kelly Anderson and Tami Gold, Peter Bratt, Hanna Elias, Marlon Fuentes, Charlene Gilbert, Sharon Lockhart, Lalo Lopez and Esteban Zul, Emiko Omori, Sam Pollard, Ellen Spiro, Caspar Stracke, Chris Sullivan, Isaac Webb, David Williams

Bay Area Video Coalition organizes TechArcheology: A Symposium on Installation Art Conservation, held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and supported by the Getty Foundation. January 5-6, 2000. ABout 25 invited participants included the Getty Conservation Institute, MOMA, Tate Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pacific Film ARchives, SFMOMA, and four installation artists Dara Birnbaum, Hary Hill, James Coleman and Steve McQueen.

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Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1999 were made to: Irit Batsry "Neither There Nor Here" - video and film poetic essay evoking the different meanings of Aplace", and a voyage into a [email protected] Ericka Beckman "Hiatus" - experimental 16mm narrative film about a young woman who creates an on-line interactive identity game Rosateresa Castro-Vargas "An Angel Voice in the Subway" - xperimental audio work presenting the truncation of voice by urban environmental sounds David Crawford "Here and Now" - interactive web project suggesting new relationships within the new interactive telecommunications environment Terry Cuddy "Dr. Steadfast=s Last Migraine" - absurd narrative video, reading like a post-modern ABartleby the [email protected] Pat Doyen "Singsong"- experimental 16mm film about association and memory and their representation Elif Savas Felsen "Coup!" - documentary film examining military coups in Turkey over the last 40 years. Rebecca Herman "Easy-to-Draw Dictators" - an examination of systems of learning, and the subtle relationships between image, mode of presentation and...

With support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, IMAP conducts a needs-assessment for a web-based cataloging tutorial and union catalog of independent media collections, under the direction of Jim Hubbard

Motion: An Exhibition of Essentialist Film and Video. The 58th Exhibition of Central New York Artists exhibition at Munson Williams Proctor Institute. Exhibition Guest Curator: John Knecht. Mary Murray, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Videotapes range from late 1970s through 1980s and were created at the Experimental Television Center; artists represented were Peer Bode, Matthew Schlanger, Connie Coleman, Alan Powell. Installation works by Daniella Dooling, Ralph Hocking, Peter HUtton, Ken Jacobs, Carol Kinne, Heidi Kumao, Les Leveque, Neil Zusman.

"School Prayer: A Community Divided" produced by Slawomir Grunberg and Ben Crane. The work received support from the New York State Council on the Arts through the sponsorship of the Experimental Television Center, the Soros Documentary Fund and the Independent Television Service. School Prayer: A Community Divided received a 2000 Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage Of a Continuing News Story. It has been screened at the Leipzig International Film Festival, the Athens International Film Festival, the Double Take Film Festival, the NY Lower East Side Film Festival, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, X International Documentary Film Festival (Portugal), and the Louisville Film and Video Festival. It received Best of the Festival award at the Hope and Dreams Film Festival, the Bronze Plaque at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, and the Bronze Award at the Flagstaff International Film Festival.

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Ausprobieren (to experiment) a multidisciplinary notation free performance by Peer Bode, Tony Conrad, Andrew Deutsch, Kevin McCoy, and Steina Vasulka. Video History - Making Connections Conference at Syracuse University, October 1998, sponsored by the Experimental Television Center.

[email protected] - The Arts in a Digital Age. Governor's Conference on Arts and Technology. March 27-29, 1998. Palisades, NY. The first statewide forum focused on the intersection of the arts and the expanding technology industry. A project of the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts. Introductory acknowledgements by Debby Silverfine, Director of the Media and Film Program, New York State Council on the Arts.

International Student Residency at the Experimental Television Center; program director and instructor, Pamela Hawkins Hank Rudolph, Co-Instructor. participating institutions included University of Buffalo; Alfred University; Atlanta College of Art; National Art Academy, Oslo.; Syracuse University. Annual. Begun 1995.

Magnetic Media Preservation Sourcebook, edited by Mona Jimenez and Liss Platt, published by Media Alliance

Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video edited by Sally Jo Fifer, Tamara Gould, Luke Hones, Debbie Hess Norris, Paige Ramey and Karen Weiner is published by Bay Area Video Coalition.

Animating the Static - Experiments in Video 1965-1980. Tapes from the Yale University Libraries videotape collection. Peter Campus, Vito Acconci, William Wegman, John Baldessari, Joan Jonas, Ant Farm, Howardena Pindell, Martha Rosler, Richard Serra, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Robert Morris, Mary Lucier, Dara Burnbaum

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: Diane Brown "Lila, Eight to Twelve" - a video documentary centering on the the artist's niece and her pre-adolescent years, a time of passionate feelings as well as a strong sense of loss Luca Buvoli "Not a Superhero" - a playful exploration of identity, displayed as an installation on a 1950s tv set, in conjunction with hand-made movie-posters Ethan Crenson "Addendum" - a twist on my installation Fission, a visualization using mousetraps and ping pong balls, with a documentary presentation which begs the question of science Genevieve Boutet de Monvel "The Lilac Sniffers" - a video exploration of how the sense of smell monitors our behavior and brings us to the immediacy of our deepest memories Roz Dimon "The Living Room of the Future" - a digital installation reflecting the dominance of the computer in the changing infrastructure of our home Elvira Garcia-Moran & Dolores Zorreguieta "Through the Wound" - a multi-media interactive CD Rom project addressing the emotional world of a woman and her artistic work Amy...

With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Media Alliance contracts with Paul Messier of Boston Art Conservation to conduct preservation surveys with six media arts groups in New York State. Media Alliance Preservation Survey is published.

Steve Reinke: The Hundred Videos exhibition at Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto. January 17-March 31, 1997

"Not Still Art" Festival in Cherry Valley, NY, organized by Carol Goss. Participants include Robert Doyle, Carol Goss, Peer Bode, Walter Wright.

Alexander Hahn - On the Nature of Things publication of Link project, Bologna, based on a five channel video installation of the same name, first exhibited in the Galeria Foksal in Warsaw, Movember 15-December 13, 1996.

CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) is announced.

Intel introduces the 200 MHz Pentium processor

Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation, by Jim Hubbard, with assistance from Mona Jimenez, is published by Media Alliance.

"Not Still Art" Festival in Cherry Valley, NY, organized by Carol Goss. Participants include Robert Doyle, Carol Goss, Peer Bode, Walter Wright.

"Reel Work: Artists' Film and Video of the 1970s", exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. February 24-May 2, 1996. Curated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley. Introduction by Dara Meyers-Kingsley. Essay by Chris Chang. Chris Burden; Dennis Oppenheim; Dan Graham; Richard Serra; Bruce Nauman; Keith Sonnier; John Baldessari; Lawrence Weiner; Vito Acconci; Paul McCarthy; William Wegman; Edward Ruscha; Yoko Ono; Hahhan Wilke; Martha Rosler; Allen Ruppersberg; Nancy Graves; Nancy Holt; Ilene Segalove; Elenor Antin; Linda Benglis; Robert Morris; Andy Warhol; Gordon Matta-Clark; Robert Smithson; Bas Jan Alder.

Steina and Woody Vasulka: Machine Media exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Catalog editor: Marita Sturken. Articles on Installations (Robert Riley), Videotapes (Marita Sturken), and essays by Sturken, Maureen Turim and Woody Vasulka. Biographies. Videography. Exhibition history. Curators: Robert Riley and Marita Sturken

Commercial dial-up systems include Compuserve, AOL, Prodigy

First Internet wiretap by Secret Service and Drug Enforcement Agency trap cell phone cloners

RealAudio introduced

The United States Patent Office overturns the decision to grant Gilbert Hyatt a patent on the microprocessor. The ruling recognizes Texas Instruments' Gary Boone as the prior inventor of the microprocessor.

Video Spaces: Eight Installations exhibition curated by Barbara London for the Museum of Modern Art. Catalog text by Barbara London; works by Judith Barry and Brad Miskell, Stan Douglas, Teiji Furuhashi, Gary Hill, Chris Marker, Marcel Odenbach, Tony Oursler, Bill Viola. Bibliography

Apple introduces Power Macintosh 6100/60 $2209

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: 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 Yau Ching Video Letters Ron Ehmke & Richard Wicka Snap Judgments John Ewing The Castle is Burning Chuck Furoyú Thunderbird Theatre Marc Gordon Wayne County Artisans Vincent Grenier Feet Pamela Hawkins Purpose, Integrity and Survival Mechanisms Denise Iris Booyaka! Carol Kalil The Electronic Magic Lantern Show Grace Lee Camp Arirang Jeffrey Lerer Memory Box II & III Branda Miller Witness to the Future Dean Moss Synchronized Swimming Betsy Newman Frank in Love Producciones Homovision Homovision Michael Schell and 77 Hz Eclectic Company: 77 Hz/Rev2 Mary Ellen Strom Pink Stephen Vitiello Fantastic Prayers Panel: Anne Fergerson and Mona Jimenez

Internet - commercial possibilities include shopping, banner ads. First cyberbank appears.

Media Alliance, under the direction of Mona Jimenez, proposes to the National Endowment for the Humanities a model partnership with the NAMID program to achieve compatible cataloging among media organizations across a broad geographic area. Although never funded, the proposal provides a foundation for collaboration on cataloging. Organizations included were Anthology Film Archives, Art Media Studies Department of Syracuse University, Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Experimental Television Center, Everson Museum of Art, Hallwalls, Media Bus, Paper Tiger Television, Port Washington Public Library, Tisch School of the Arts of New York University, Visual Studies Workshop and Woodstock Public Library.

Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Helen De Michiel, Loni Ding, Arthur Dong, Stephen Dwoskin, Philip Mallory Jones, Sylvia Morales, Pepon Osorio, Randy Redroad, Marlon Riggs, Cauleen Smith, Renee Tajima?Pena, John Valadez, David Williams, Andrei Zagdansky

"Set in Motion" opens at the Walter Reade Theater, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York City

Alexander Hahn - Of Shadow and Light exhibition at World Wide Video Center, Den Haag. December 5, 1993 - January 10, 1994.

Apple Computer launches the Newton MessagePad 100 personal digital assistant

Bay Area Video Coalition receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts to establish a center for re-mastering obsolete formats of videotape, under the leadership of Sally Jo Fifer and Luke Hones.

Computer Art: An Ohio Perspective at the Dayton Visual Arts Center. Curator: Tom Baggs and Jud Yalkut. Catalog includes artists' statements and videographies; bibliography

Publication of Deirdre Boyle's Video Preservation: Securing the Future of the Past, published by Media Alliance

eine DATA base: Nam June Paik book edited by Klaus Bubmann. Essays by Paik, John Canaday, Calvin Thompkins, Otto Piene, Wulf Herzogenrath and letters by many artists.

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: Mara Alper Stories No One Wants to Hear Kelly Anderson Because Reality Isn't Black & White Maria Beatty Imaging Her Erotics Skip Blumberg Weekend in Moscow Bill & Mary Buchen Sounds (Like India) Abigail Child Dinkinsville Yau Ching Flow Bob Doyle Father's Day Kit Fitzgerald The Teardrops of Eros Larry Gottheim Kreyol Johan Grimonprez Kobarweng or Where are Your Helicopters? Sara Hornbacher Female (re) Production Allan Jamieson Indigenous Voices, 1492-1992 Jeffrey Lerer Memory Box Dean Moss Adventures in Assimilation Frank Ortega What We Hold On To Matthew Ostrowski The Blinding Richard Povall The Last Garden Michael Schell and 77 Hz Narrowcast Irene Sosa Woman as Protagonist: The Art of Nancy Spero Ned Sublette Ships at Sea, Sailors and Shoes Nancy Sullivan Papua, New Guinea Jo Wright Whitten Dancing on a String Reggie Woolery Backwalk Ann Sargent Wooster No Means No Panel: Rii Kanzaki and Carlota Schoolman

Chimaera Monographie Irit Batsry: Traces of a Passage exhibition of works by Irit Batsry. Catalog texts by Pierre Bongiovanni, Marc Mercier, Laurence Kardish, Stuart Jones, Friedemann Malsch, Uri Lipschitz, Irit Batsry

Noah's Raven: A Video Installation by Mary Lucier exhibition at Toledo Museum of Art 2/7/93-5/9/93. Essay by Eleanor Heartney; Biographical notes by Melinda Barlow

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications releases Mosaic v1.0 web browser

Ars Electronica, Video Pioneers, exhibition curated by Woody and Steina Vasulka; participation by Experimental Television Center and Ralph Hocking. Experimental Television Center supplied many early devices, and assisted with public interfaces; Catalog edited by David Dunn, contains information about many artists-designed tools and systems and reprint of equipment manual written by Sherry Miller Hocking and Rich Brewster. 1992. http://www.aec.at/en/archives/index.asp?nocache=511194

Hosts on the internet reaches 1,000,000

Due to New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) budget reductions, the Individual Artists Program begins alternate-year funding for film and media production grantsNew York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) overall budget reduced by 5.9 million, Electronic Media and Film Program budget reduced by $353,000 and Individual Artist Grants reduced by $296,000.

Internet Society ISOC chartered

Amiga Workshop at Media Ithaca by Mona Jimenez, Fall 1992. Jimenez was Director of the Media Center at Visual Studies Workshop.

Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Camille Billops, Gregg Bordowitz, Simin Farkhondeh, Arthur Jafa Fielder, Indu Krishnan, James Luna, Judith MacDougall and David MacDougal, Poli Marichal, Jan Oxenberg, Michelle Parkerson, Valerie Soe, Chris Spotted Eagle, Rea Tajiri, Iverson White

Internet talk radio broadcasts

US White House goes on line

The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture established a national Video Preservation Task Force.

Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) votes to formalize as an individual-based professional association.

"Song and Dance", Connie Coleman and ALan Powell, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia.

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: 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 Jean de Boysson Teile Dich Nacht Bradley Eros and Jeanne Liotta Apocatopia Lluis Escartin 75 Drive Away Shalom Gorewitz Rock Dancing John Gwin Power Toy Barbara Hammer Naked Singularities Ron Jackson and Gregory Thomas Still Life Kakuna Kerina Where Boys Rule Bill Klaila Espresso Mini Wago Kreider Nostalgia Jill Kroesen The Bird Cynthia Lopez A base de nuestro sacrificioÖ Cara Mertes Details Sarah Montague In Time of the Breaking of Nations Mary Neininger Urban Ritual Pam Payne What We Do Mary Perillo Fractured Variations Nick Pietrocarlo and Roger Bourdeau On the Hair of a Buffalo Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo Disguised as a Different Life Form Ellen Spiro Party Safe! William Trainer and Timothy Masick here Panel: Shu Lea Cheang, Robery Doyle, and Philip Mallory Jones

Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP 95LX hand-held computer

The Internet includes 5,000 networks in over three dozen countries, serving over 700,000 host computers used by over 4,000,000 people.

Out of Control 91 exhibition at Ars Electronica. Ars Electronica '91 picked out the consequences of technological progress, the aspect of the dangers implicated in the increasing mechanization of life and the getting-out-of-control of technological systems as its central themes. During the festival, projects were launched dealing with global and individual disasters, environmental damage and natural disasters as a reaction to these developments. "Out of Control" was not an aesthetically "beautiful" festival, but aggressive, provocative, critical, disturbing. http://www.aec.at/archiv_project_en.php?id=8894

Riss: Kjell Bjorgeengen Videoskulpturer 1991 exhibition of work by Kjell Bjorgeengen

Second International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Groningen, Holland

Symposium on Video Preservation is hosted by the Museum of Modern Art and organized by Media Alliance, under the leadership of Mary Esbjornson, and by the New York State Council on the Arts.

The Independent, published by the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, publishes an article by Stephen Vitiello and Leanne Mella, "Facilities for Cleaning, Restoring, and Remastering Videotape" in October 1991

Video: A Catalogue of the Artists' Videotapes published by Distribution Service of Electronic Arts Intermix. Texts by Lori Zippay, Robert Beck, Nicola Smith, Marita Sturken. Tapes available for distribution with descriptions, videographies, bibliography.

World Wide Web released by CERN

Amiga 3000 computer announced $4100

Ars Electronica 1990: Digital Dreams - Virtual Worlds

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) merges Media and Film Programs into Electronic Media and Film Program. Debby Silverfine, Director.

From Receiver to Remote Control: The TV Set exhibition at The New Museum of Contemporary Art 9/14/90 - 11/25/90. Catalog editor: Matthew Geller. Articles by Marcia Tucker, Lynn Spigel, Serafina Bathrick, Andrew Behar, Sarah Sackner, Joshua Meyrowitz, Jane Root, Ehrick Long, William Bird, Maud Lavin, Ed Bowes, Les Brown, John Handhardt, Alice Yang, David Tafler, Margaret Morse

NewTek ships the Video Toaster a hardware/software video effects tool for the Commodore Amiga 2000 $1600

Sony introduces the first writable CD.

The Interactive Show, at University of Buffalo December 7-17, 1990. Curator: Neil Zusman. A regional exhibition of installations at University of Buffalo. Fred Bacher, Karen Collette, Bernd Ewert, Dana Hatchett, Eric Jensen, Katrin Jurati, Brent Scott, David Stieglitz, Jason Tenant, Peter Babula, Mindy Tousley, Alan Van Avery, Jamie Wilson, Jonathan Woolson

Windows 3 ships

After Collapse: Rebuilding Expressive Media Post Currents 1989. Curator: Neil Zusman. Artists included Peter Babula, Peer Bode, Tyrone Georgiou, Ralph Hocking, Megan Roberts, Raymond Ghirardo, Cork Marcheschi, Paul Sharits, Vibeke Sorensen, Kathy High, John Knecht, Dan Reeves, Neil Zusman

American Documentary Video: Subject to Change exhibition of works by documentary video practitioners with program notes Premiere at the Museum of Modern Art; traveling exhibition. Curator: DeirdreBoyle. Organized by The American Federation of Arts

Seventh Annual Asian American International Video Festival. Catalog editor: David Low

"arTVideo", a cable series programmed by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Works by the Experimental TV Center.

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) implements multi-year support for Flm and Media Production using National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Challenge III money

hosts on the Internet reaches 100,000

"Indie Award" to the Experimental Television Center from the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, a national advocacy organization, for "The Center's unique role as a provider of an oasis for innovation in the electronic media arts".

Masterpieces of Moving Image Technology exhibition. Museum of the Moving Image. Curator: Richard Koszarski. Catalog contains descriptions and small photos of machines in the exhibition.

"Champion of the Arts" from the New York Foundation for the Arts " to Ralph Hocking "in recognition of his sustaining commitment to the arts community and the needs of the individual artist".

Video Skulptur: retrospectiv und aktuell 1963-1989 publication 1989. texts by John Handhardt, Wulf Herzogenrath, Edith Decker

Anthology Film Archives (AFA) inaugurates its new facilities at Second Street and Second Avenue, New York City

Central New York Programmer's Group is established to help upstate exhibitors and educators develop touring circuits for independent film and video. People associated have included John Efroymson, Rii Kanzaki, Jane Greenberg, Ann Curran

D2 video recording format publically available

Exit Art organizes New York's first International Festival of Super-8 Film; curated by Jordi Torrent

International Museum of Photography/George Eastman House, Rochester, inaugurates new building which includes a study center, a second screening room and new archival facilities

Irwin Young and DuArt Film Lab receive NYS Governor's Arts Award

Media Buff. Media Art of Buffalo, New York. New York State Artists Series VIII at Herbert Johnson Museum, Ithaca September 9 - November 12, 1988. Included works and catalog texts by Department of Media Study, Barbara Lattanzi, Chris Hill, Hallwalls, Tony Conrad, Squeaky Wheel, Julie Zando. Essay by Richard Herskowitz

Olean Public Library sponsored workshop on rural film exhibition during the annual exhibition series "Rural Images Film and Video Festival"., organized by librarian Jean Haynes.

Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Charles Burnett, Haile Gerima, DeeDee Halleck, Paul Kos, Victor Masavesva Jr., Lourdes Portillo, Trinh T. Minh-ha

Steve Jobs of NeXT Inc. unveils the first NeXT computer $6500

The American Museum of the Moving Image opens in Astoria . The museum provides permanent exhibitions, screenings, seminars and other public programs on film, television and video.

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, presents "Media Buff: The Media Art of Buffalo," curated by Richard Herskowitz

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) organizes the first "American Independents in Berlin" for the Berlin Film Festival. A marketing intiative designed to secure European co-production and distribution of contracts for independent American film.

Amiga 500 personal computer with custom chips for animation, video and audio

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City, presents "Bill Viola" retrospective; curated by Barabra London

hosts on the "internet" reaches 10,000

Mac II $5500. 1 MB Ram, 40 MB hard drive

Microsoft unveils the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet

D1 and S-VHS video recording formats publically available

The Thinking Eye exhibition at International Center for Photography April 24-June 21, 1987. Juan Downey

Video as Art exhibition at the Cortland Arts Counciil Gallery. March 1-27, 1987. Guest Curator, Sherry Miller Hocking. Videotape screenings and presentations by Philip Mallory Jones (What Goes Around/Comes Around, Soldiers of a Recent and Forgotten War, Extra Rooms, The Trouble I've Seen); Peer Bode (Invented Eye #1, Camel with Window Memory; Synthetic Series, Blindfields, Animal Migrations). Still image by Mary Ross and by Alan Powell and Connie Coleman. Video installation and presentation by Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo (Momument).

1986 National Video Festival at The American Film Institute. Curator of The Other New York: Regional Reflections: Sara Hornbacher. Artists included Sara Hornbacher, Shalom Gorewitz, Mark Gilliland, Rii Kanzaki, David Blair, Geoffrey Wickland, Tony Conrad, Peer Bode, Ernest Gusella, Ann-Sargent Wooster, Peter Mitchell, Sorrel Hays, Gerald Pallor, Peter Chamberlain, Mark Brady, Nancy Norwood, Vernon Norwood, Henry Jessionka, Peter Weibel, Henry Linhart, Ken Rowe, Julie Harrison, Alida Walsh, Neil Zusman, Cambiz Khosravi, John Efroymson, Allan Tepper, David Lyons, Hank Rudolph, Lee Eiferman, Kathryn High, Alan Powell, Connie Coleman, Matthew Schlanger, Joe Tripician, Merrill Aldighieri, Doris Chase, Bary Friedman, Manny Katz, Alex Hahn, Bill Buchen, Mary Buchen, Angelo Jannuzi, Craig Sterling, Gary Hill. Organizations represented included Experimental Television Center, Media Study/ Buffalo.

Crandall Library, Glens Falls, NY, with NYSCA support organized "Premiere: First Conference on Film Exhibition".

GRID exhibition at Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, 7/12-9/28/86. Curated by Peter Chamberlain. Included installations by Peer Bode; Peter Chamberlain and Curt Dunnam; John Driscoll; Phil Edelstein; Ralph Hocking.

9th Annual lnternational Public Television Screening Conference, Input, Montreal.

"Premiere: First Conference on Film Exhibition," co-organized by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program and the Crandall Library, Glens Falls

Start-up funds to Squeaky Wheel media center, Buffalo; Julie Zando first director. Other Directors: Cheryl Jackson, Robbie Butler, Dorothea Braemer

NSF funds an interconnection among 5 super-computer centers at major universities (Princeton, Cornell, UCSD). First freenet is on-line in Cleveland

Video in the Park Festival. August 4-13, 1986. New York City. Curator was Carlota Schoolman, former curator of video at The Kitchen.

"Emerging Expression: The Artist and the Computer", Bronx Museum of Art

Akwesasne Cultural Center, Hogansburg, funded for video workshops and to tour Native American films to community centers in northern New York

Alternating Currents exhibition (June 15-Juiy 6,1985) at the Alternative Museum in New York. is an exhibition of artworks using television as a documentary tool and expressive medium. Video is known to most people only through their living rooms as TV, a medium which presents situation comedies, soap operas, the news, rock videos and Hollywood movies. But network television presents only certain types of information in a very structured fashion. This exhibit will show other ways that video may be used to present programs which not only entertain and inform, but also act as artistic visions which explore the poetential uses of television. Co-Curators: Terry Berkowitz David Donihue Artists: Eugenia Balcells Caterina Borelli Barbara Broughel Nancy Burson Richard Carling Bill Creston Bonnie Donohue Dieter Froese Alexander Hahn Sara Hornbacher Bob Harris Joanne Kelly David Kramlich Tom Leeser Larry Miller Peter Mitchell Rita Myers Betsy Newman Paul Nichols Barbara Rosenthal Arlene Schloss Diane Spodarek Ellin Stein Twin Art Eva Type The Video Band Warner Wada Reynold Weidenaar Diana Wilson Jay Yager

CD Rom drives introduced for computer uses

Commodore 128 personal computer introduced

Concerned Black Filmmakers/20 West Theatre funded for its independent black film repertory cinema housed in a Harlam brownstone; Jessie Maple and Leroy Patton, co-founders

Diference: On Representation and Sexuality Videotapes curated by Jane Weinstock New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC December 8, 1984-February 10, 1985 Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago March 3 - April 7, 1985 Institute of Contemporary Art, London July 19-September 1, 1985

Nam June Paik receives the NYS Governor's Arts Award

"New Television" series of artists' videotapes inaugurated at WNET, New York City

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) begins to administer New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funded film, video and screenwriting fellowships

Revising Romance: New Feminist Video Distributed by the American Federation of Arts Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, September 1 - December 31, 1984 University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus April 1985 Northwest Film Study Center, Portland, OR July 1985 Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY September 1985

Microsoft ships Windows 1.0 for $100

The National Center for Film and Video Preservation is established by the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts. Its mission includes The Film Foundation, The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and the National Moving Image Database (NAMID) project which centralizes information on the film and television holdings of American archives and producers, and has assisted many organizations with the cataloging of film and video collections

Global Village 10th Annual Documentary Festival: The National Tour. Catalog essays by Ann-Sargent Wooster; Renee Tajima; Susan Linfield. Artists include James Byrne, Jamie Davidovich, Loni Ding, DeeDee Halleck, Juan Downey, Maxi Cohen, Andrew Kolker and Luis Alvarez, Jon Alpert, George Lucas, Shalom Gorewitz.

Sony Betacam video recording format publically available

Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System funded to build a circulating collection of video art for western New York. Jean Haynes, Librarian, responsible for activity in the program .

Commodore 16 with 16KB Ram $100

The Institute of Contemporary Art and WGBH-TV in Boston collaborate to create the Contemporary Art Television Fund, which will commission and co-produce new video works. Co-Directors of the Fund are David Ross of ICA and Susan Dowling, producer at WGBH's New Television Workshop. Curator was Kathy Huffman, who had also curated at the Regional Media Art Center at the Long Beach Museum in California. The CAT Fund accepted and solicited proposals and provided assistance for production, post-production and distribution. The Fund supported not only works for television, but also installations. Funding was initially provided by WGBH, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. The distribution program of the CAT Fund was intended to generate income for the Fund.

Domain Name System DNS introduced. Now 1000 hosts on network. Moderated newsgroups introduced on Usenet

The New York City Experimental Video and Film Festival. Curator: Hunter Yoder. Artists included Darrell Wilson, Ilene Seagalove, Cindy Kleine, Raphael Bendahan, Lynn Vance and Leighton Pierce, Robert Rose, Jill Kroesen, Aline Mayer and Bradley Eros.

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) creates Individual Artists Programs to oversee support to filmmakers, media artists and other artists

Revising Romance: New Feminist Video for American Federation of Arts and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Curators: Linda Podheiser, Bob Riley. Artists included Deans Keppel, Ann-Sargent Wooster

Sidney Lumet receives Governor's Arts Award

Sony establishes world's first one-piece compact disc players. These portable CD players are the first in a line of products aimed at use in the family car.

The Video Data Bank presents The Science of Fiction The Fiction of Science On September 7 th and 8th , 1984, the VDB produced the first Video Drive-In in Grant Park Chicago. A 40" video projection transforms the Petrillo Band Shell into a video version of a drive-in theater showcasing two rakishly orchestrated evenings of video tape programs. Including Jackie O., Michael Smith, Max Almay, Branda Miller, Beth Berolzheimer, Arturo Cubacub, Arturo Toscanini, Doug Hall, Judith Barry, John Manning, Ed Rankus, Wayne Fielding, Graeme Whifler, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Cecelia Condit, Steina, Janice Tanaka, Ken Feingold, Barbara Buckner, Dan Sandin, Barbara Latham , Daniel Klepper, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, Carole Ann Klonarides, Lynn Blumenthal and Ed Paschke, Bob Snyder and Joan Logue.

Visions of U.S.: Best of the 1st Annual Home Video Competition organized by the American Film Institute. Catalog commentary by David Crook, Catherine Richards, Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway, Bruce Apar. Artists included Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, Shalom Gorewitz, Betsy Newman, Marita Sturken, Susan Mosakowski.

Visions of US, 1st Annual video competition sponsored by SONY and presented by the American Film Institute. Shalom Gorewitz ; Connie Coleman and Alan Powell. Both works produced in part at ETC

"In 1983, with pilot funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, Anthology Film Archives initiated a video preservation project. Its three objectives are to: 1.) identify and locate independent video-makers in the United States; 2.) borrow and then rerecord video works that are endangered by age, format obsolescence, etc.; 3.) preserve these re-recordings in the proper termerature/humidity conditions. As of this writing, August 1983, work is underway in all three areas. The next issue of "Video Texts" will present a report on the first year of this project's ooperation." Video Texts 1983.

Artist's Video I: Video in the Boroughs. at Downtown Cultural Center Gallery Two. Curator: Sara Hornbacher. Tapes by Peer Bode

1983 Asian American International Film Festival. Catalog editor: David Low. Introductory text by Daryl Chin.

"Changing Times, Changing Needs", annaul conference Media Alliance

Commodore SX-64 first color portable computer $1600

Desktop workstations come into being, many with Berkeley UNIX (4.2 BSD) which includes IP networking software

Film Program begins pilot program to support distribution of New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funded films

Hudson River Museum "Electronic Visions" curated by John Minkowsky. Included work by Ralph Hocking

IBM Personal Computer XT $4995

In February 1984 Afterimage reported that the 9th Annual Festival which contained 22 tapes might not be circulated; 80 weeks of rentals had to be secured to insure that expenses could be met. The 9th IVP Festival was funded in 1982-83.

Corporate program, industry funded, allowing artists to use commerical facilites at reduced rates at Online, established by Media Alliance, New York City

First mouse - Microsoft

Path of Dreams: Video in the Boroughs. Curator: Sara Hornbacher. Tapes by Bill Viola, Dan Reeves and Jon Hilton, Sara Hornbacher.

Society for Photographic Education National Conference: Photography Within the New Technology/Defining a New Philosophy of Education. Philadelphia. March 17-20, 1983. Speakers: Steina Vasulka, DeeDee Halleck, Ronald Gregory, John Pfahl, Woody Vasulka, Lyn Blumenthal, John Giancola, George Fifield, Tom Porett, Alan Sondheim, Martha Rosler, Ralph Hocking, Nathan Lyons, Jim Pomeroy, Martha Gever, Catherine Lord

Corporate program, industry funded, allowing artists to use commerical facilites at reduced rates at Standby, founded by Rick Feist and Alex Roshuk

The 6th Tokyo Video Festival 1983. Reynold Weidenaar: Grand Prize for Love of Line, of Light and Shadow: The Brooklyn Bridge, produced in part at the Experimental Television Center

The Electronic Gallery at University Art Gallery, Binghamton. Curated by Maureen Turim. Tape exhibition of works from the Experimental TV Center by Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller; Henry Linhart; Shalom Gorewitz; Peer Bode; Barbara Buckner; Gary Hill. Still images by Mary Ross, Peer Bode, Ralph Hocking.

The Frontier is a weekly series of 13 new programs broadcast on WNED-TV in Buffalo, NY. Series produced by Media Study/Buffalo which curates the series and WNED-TV which provides technical assistance for broadcast. Series showcases independent video and filmmakers. 1983 Frontier series presents 26 titles by 23 artists. Support from the New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Canada Council. Producer Lynn Corcoran, Assistant to the Producer, Barbara Lattanzi, Executive Producer, Gerald O'Grady. Included Steina, John Caldwell, Tobe Carey, Paul McGowan.

The Media Arts In Transition, a conference organized and cosponsored by Walker Art Center in association with National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, University Community Video and Film in the Cities. June 8-11, 1983. Programming committee: Melinda Ward, Jennifer Lawson and John Minkowsky. Its purpose was to focus on the contemporary technological, social, economic and aesthetic forces shaping the future of the media arts. Texts by Ron Green, Brian O'Doherty, VIrgil Grillo, Gene Youngblood, Howard Wise, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Nam June Paik, Shirley Clarke, Ed Emshwiller, Tony Conrad, Alvey Ray Smith, Frank Hodsoll, B. Ruby RIch, Renee Tajima, Barbara London, John Giancola, Jon Alpert, George Stoney, Bill Viola and Robert Haller.

Early demo of Windows by Microsoft - simultaneous running of programs

Companies begin to standardize the 8mm consumer videotape recorder format

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

Commodore 64 introduced for $600 with 16 color graphics

Crandall Library, Glens Falls, receives funding for its independent filmmakers series

Creative Artists Public Service Program, Isabelle Fernandez, Director, decides to go to alternate year funding for the fellowship categories, in response to NYSCA requests that the program become more cost effective. CAPS indicates that more awards will be made, with the savings from the administrative cost cuts, but that the funding level of the fellowships would remain the same. In 1981 32% of the CAPS budget was disbursed for administration. The State Council members ordered a ceiling of such expenses of 20%, in response. NYSCA also requested that CAPS secure outside funding for the overall program. CAPS was unable to find a mandated matching funds source. Isabelle Fernandez, Director of CAPS, indicated that CAPS had originally been told by NYSCA not to engaged in outside fundraising, because it would mean direct competition for funding with other media organizations; she also indicated that NYSCA had changed this position, culminating in the matching funds requirement. Fernandez also indicated that CAPS was perceived as a public funding agency, making it difficult to secure private support, and that private support was very difficult to find for artists' fellowships. NYSCA'...

Digital Equipment introduces Rainbow - a dual processor incorporating both Z80 and Intel 8088 microprocessors $3000

Hitachi and Bosch introduce 1/4" video recorders

Kaypro II computer introduced for $1795 by Non-Linear Systems

Microsoft releases MS-DOS 1.1 to IBM for IBM PC

Radical Departures: The 1982 Creative Artists Public Service Program Video/Multimedia Festival. Curator: Steven Kolpan. Traveling exhibition to upstate locations including ETC, Visual Studies Workshop, Media Bus, Media Study/Buffalo, Ithaca Artists Cooperative; Alfred University; Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library, Albany Public Library, Crandall Library, Port Washington Public Library, Chaenango County Council on the Arts. Includes works by Dan Reeves and John Hilton; Lynn Corcoran, John Sandborn and Kit Fitzgerald, Joan Logue, Ardele Lister, Sally Shapiro, Ed Bowes, Jaime Davidovich, Loraine Corfield

Shugart Associates introduces 1.5 inch floppy disk drives

Timex Sinclair 1000 computer introduced for $99.95

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Media Program gives first grants for video preservation and video crtiticism

Video/TV: Humor/Comedy, a touring video exhibition of Media Study/Buffalo, curated by John Minkowsky and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Catalog essay by John Minkowsky. Extensive catalog introductions for each of the themes, and notes about each artist in the collection. Program developed from Minkowsky's design of a course in Video Comedy for Center for Media Study in 1981 and for the San Francisco Art Institute in 1982. The exhibition was divided into topics: Musical/Comedy (Pier Marton, Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn, Greme Whifler and Renaldo and the Loaf, Twinart, Julis Heyward, Ernest Gusella, Kenn Beckman and Blue Gene Tyranny, Laurie Anderson and Davidson Gigliotti, Tony Oursler, Michael Smith, Dale Hoyt, The Kipper Kids. Video Pioneers (Nam June Paik, William Wegman, Ant Farm/TR Uthco. Parody: Cultural TV Station (Alan Lande, Tony Mascatello, Tom Adair and Ken Robbins, Peter Brownscombe, General Idea, Laurie McDonald, Jeff Strate, William Wegman, Howard Fried, Jules Backus and Skip Blumberg, Ferris Butler. Likely Stories (Mitchell Kriegman, Tony Oursler, Willie Walker). The Magic Box (Alan Lande, Willie Walker, Michael Smith and Mark Fischer,...

Arthur Tsuchiya. New York State Council on the Arts Media Program, 1981-1988

CAPS/ICI 1981 Traveling Video Festival. Creative Artists Public Service Program and Independent Curators Incorporated. List of presentation venues. Works by Skip Blumberg, Peer Bode, Ron Clark, Shalom Gorewitz, Julie Harrison, Neil Zusman, Dean Keppel, Verity Lund, Henry Moore, Antonio Muntades, Rita Myers, David Rose, Joseph Steinmetz. Panel: Lynn Corcoran, Dieter Froese, Teodoro Maus, Sherry Miller, Arthur Tsuchiya. ICI helped to organize a national tour for the first time. Curator for ICI was Nina Sundell.

Town meetings occur around the State to discuss ways in which New York State can continue to support individual artists. This was partly in response to the administrative problems of the Creative Artists Public Service Program, as cited by the New York State Council on the Arts.

Film Forum, New York City, under direction of Karen Cooper, reopens as a multi-plex theater with the first full-time independent feature screen

IBM introduces 5150 Personal PC with Microsoft MS-DOS $3000

The first National Latino Film and Video Festival, organized by Lillian Jimenez at El Museo del Barrio, New York City

Osborne Computer introduces Osborne 1 Personal Computer with Z80A CPU and disk drives $1795

Paper Tiger TV is a non-profit volunteer collective that has been pioneering media criticism through video since 1981. The diverse series of over 260 programs addresses issues of democratic communications, media representation and the economics of the information industry. The tapes are broadcast in NYC and across the US. They are distributed by Paper Tiger to universities, libraries and media centers worldwide.

Seventh Ithaca Video Festival. 290 entries; 19 tapes selected. No entry fee. Payment for tapes selected. Panelists: Barbara London (MOMA), Arthur Tsuchiya (NYSCA), Carvin Eison (WXXI Artists Workshop). Artists: Shalom Gorewitz, Steina Vasulka, Ed Emshwiller, Woody Vasulka, Dan Reeves and Jon Hilton, Eva Maier, Blondell Cummings and SHirley Clarke, Christopher Couglan, Denise Milan and Nana Vasconcelos, Tom Adair and Kenneth Robins, John Sturgeon, Kit Fitzgerald and Jon Sanborn, Gary Hill, Dana Atchley and Eric Metcalfe, Ros Barron, Neecy Twinem, Peter D'Agostino, Taka Iimura. Exhibition sites: Herbert Johnson Museum, Intermedia Art Center, Port Washington Public LIbrary, Albany Public LIbrary and other national locations. Supported by the NYSCA and NEA.

SMPTE tests digital video and makes recommendations which become the basis for the D-1 recorder

Themes in Electronic Image Processing at The Kitchen. Curator: Shalom Gorewitz. Decenber 1981. Exhibition of image processing tools by Experimental Television Center and David Jones. Artists - Peer Bode; Ralph Hocking; Connie Coleman and Alan Powell; Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorenson and Dean Winkler; Reynold Weidenaar; Barbara SYkes; Barbara Buckner; Jo Ann Gillerman; Gillerman and Jim Whiteaker; Henry Baker and Jane Steuerwald; Pier Marton; Shalom Gorewitz; Doris Chase; Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn; Gary Hill; Michael Scroggins; Neil Zusman; Maureen Nappi; Janice Tanaka; Marc Casey; Sara Hornbacher

Themes in Electronic Imaging exhibition at The Kitchen, curated by Shalom Gorewitz. Included work by Peer Bode; Ralph Hockng' Tom DeWitt; Barbara Buckner; Henry Baker; Gary Hill.

Women's International Independent Film Festival at the Bleecker Street Cinema, New York City, organized by Women Make Movies

Xerox introduces Star 8010 with word processing (WYSIWYG) and software allowing combining of text and graphics in single document. $16,000

15th Annual Avant Garde Festival

Anthology Film Archives (AFA), New York City receives New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program funds to preserve 16mm independent films

ARPANET hit by virus and halts

Artists' Use of Telecommunications Conference - Live International Video and Audio Link February 16, 1980 "The conference brings together internationally known artists working with telecommunications to discuss and explore ideas pertaining to satellites and slow-scan video. The conference will be presented in "telecommunication space" with participants located in San Franscisco, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Vienna and Tokyo. Participants include, among others, Bob Adrian, Bill Bartlett, Liza Bear, Douglas Davis, Sharon Grace, Carl Loeffler, David Ross, Aldo Tambellini, Norman White and Gene Youngblood. Organized by La Mamelle Inc. and San Franscisco Museum of Modern Art". The on-line part of the "Artists' Use of Telecommunications Conference" was organised by Bill Bartlett for "La Mamelle" (an artist-run space in San Francisco) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMMA). The "Conference" was also the first global use of Slow-Scan TV (video images transmitted over the telephone) by artists. Locations and Participants CAMBRIDGE (USA) Center for Advanced Visual Studies/M.I.T. Aldo Tambellini etc. HAWAII University Art Department John Southworth etc. JAPAN Tsukuba...

Athens Video Festival, a project of the Athens Center for Film and Video. Norman Pollack, (QUBE CHoice Award), Julie Harrison and Neil Zusman (The Colorado Video Award), Alan Barkley (Special Merit Award), Ed Geis(Special Merit Award), DN Rodowick (Merit Award), Thomas Musca Highlights), Stefan Moore and Claude Beller (3M Award), Sol Korine and Blaine Dunlap (Special Merit), Jim Mulligan and John DeGraaf (Merit Award), Mark Lowrey (Merit Award), DCVT (Merit Award), UWGB Center (3M Award), Erik Nelson and Joe Dea (Midwest Corporation Award), John Caldwell (Midwest Corporation Award), Tom Adair (Merit Award)

Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1979-80. Mark Brady, Barbara Buckner, Maxi Cohen, Tom DeWitt, Ernest Gusella, Sara Hornbacher, Les Levine, Tony Ramos, Ira Schneider, Vibeke Sorensen, Arthur Tsuchiya, Edin Velez. Panel: John Minkowsky, John Camelio, DOris Chase, Juan Downey, Gunilla Mallory Jones, Joan Logue, ANtonio Muntades. Video Festival was exhibited in 18 locations around New York State.

Electronic Arts Intermix receives one of the first grants from the New York State Council on the Arts for preservation activities.

Mary Lea Bandy becomes Director of the Film Department at the Museum of Modern Art and Bill Sloan named librarian and head of the circulating film library.

German Video and Performance exhibition. Curator: Ulrike Rosenbach. Artists: Ulrike Rosenbach; Klaus vom Bruch; Jochen Gerz; Marcel Odenbach. Catalog essay by Wulf Herzogenrath

Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-85 microcomputer

Microsoft introduces XENIX OS a portable and commercial version of UNIX operating system

In the 1980s, under the leadership of Debby Silverfine, Director of the Electronic Media and Film Program at The New York State Council on the Arts, a support category for preservation activities is established

Seagate Technology introduces first 5.25" hard drive holding 5 MB costs $600

Synapse Video Center (formerly University Community Union Video), Syracuse, New York, closes

The Film Fund, New York City, receives New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds to administer grants program for independent film and video production, under direction of Jennifer Lawson. Grant money from individual donors and small foundations.

The National Alliance of Media Arts Centers (NAMAC) is established; later renamed National Alliance of Media Art and Culture

Themes in Electronic Image Processing at The Kitchen. Curator: Shalom Gorewitz. Month long exhibition. Included panel on video criticism. Second year of exhibition. Artists - Peer Bode; Ralph Hocking; Connie Coleman and Alan Powell; Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorenson and Dean Winkler; Reynold Weidenaar; Barbara Sykes; Barbara Buckner; Jo Ann Gillerman; Gillerman and Jim Whiteaker; Henry Baker and Jane Steuerwald; Pier Marton; Shalom Gorewitz; Doris Chase; Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn; Gary Hill; Michael Scroggins; Neil Zusman; Maureen Nappi; Janice Tanaka; Marc Casey; Sara Hornbacher

Video Art Review at Anthology Film Archives. Series of 18 programs presented by Anthology Film Archives in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix. Program notes. Nam June Paik, DCTV, Ed Emschwiller, WGBH, Peter Campus, NCET, John Reilly and Stefan Moore, TVTV, Ant Farm, Woody Vasulkas, Steina Vasulka, Skip Blumberg, Skip Sweeney, Richard Foreman and others.

Wendy Clarke's "Love Tapes," an interactive video installation, is exhibitied at the World Trade Center, New York City

Asian Cine-Vision, New York City, receives first time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding for a cable series and video workshops

Media Study/Buffalo, in collaboration with WNED-TV, Channel 17 and the Center for Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, had held its first Conference on Contemporary Directions in the Public Affairs Documentary in February, 1979 and has announced the second annual event for May 12-15, 1980.

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Entermedia's "American Mavericks Film Festival," New York City, and statewide tour

Experimental Television Center (ETC), Binghamton, New York, moves to Owego, New York. Peer Bode, Program Coordinator of Residency Program.

With the support of The Rockefeller Foundation, and the collaboration of Howard Klein, Director of its Arts Program, and Herbert Dordick of the University of Southern California, then visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John Reilly organized Independent Television Makers and Public Communications Policy, a Seminar Conference to Promote Telecommunications Diversity in the 1980's, at the Rockefeller Foundation on June 6-9, 1979. Reilly himself presented a paper on "The Independents, Media Arts Centers and Public Television'; Alan Jacobs, Executive Director of AIVF, contributed "The Independent Mandate"; and Nick DeMartino, an independent producer and editor of Televisions which had published a special issue on "Independent Producers In the Future of Public Television" (Volume 6, No. 4 April 1979), and more recently a Consultant to the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting, addressed "The Case for a Center for Independent Television."

The 6th International Video Exchange Directory publication by Satellite Video Exchange, Vancouver. 1979. Resource guide to tapes, distributors, individuals, publications

November 2-3, 1979 Meeting to formalize Media Alliance at Media Study/Buffalo Representatives of Donnell Film Library, Experimental Inntermedia Foundation, Hallwalls, IMAC, The Kitchen, Media Study, Experimental Television Center, New York State Council on the Arts, Portable Channel, Synapse, TV Lab, Video Rainbow, Visual Studies Workshop, WXXI-TV, Women's Interart Center, Young Filmmakers By Laws and a statement of purpose were drafted and distributed. The annual membership meeting was set for January 25, 1980 in New York City. Agenda items included voting on Board of Directors, Discussion of funding for Media Alliance, Report from the Telecommunications Committee.

National Conference of Media Arts Centers hosted by the Foundation for Independent Video and Film at Lake Minnewaska, NY April 25-27, 1979. Known as the Minnewaska Conference. Funding provided by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Steering Committee: Virgil Grillo (Rocky Mountain Film Center), Alan Jacobs (Foundation for Independent Video and Film), Robert Sitton (Northwest Film Study Center), Gail Waldron (Bay Area Video Coalition), Susan Woll (Boston Film/Video Foundation), Stan Woodward (South Carolina Arts Commission), Robert Haller (Pittsburgh Filmmakers). Representatives of 47 organizations and 12 governmental agencies attended; at the preceeding Pittsburgh Conference it was felt that attendance was limited to larger institutions. This meeting included smaller organizations previously not represented. About 20% of attendees at Minnewaska were from artist-based organizations. The Steering Committee devised a selection process for attendees to keep total attendance to 63 and represent national activity. The issues addressed at the conference included: theatrical and commerical distribution of independent works; new technologies including...

New York Upstate Meeting of Non-Profit Media Groups March 9, 1979 at Synapse Video Center, Syracuse, NY. Groups met to continue discussion about formation of an organization eventually known as Media Alliance, representing service organizations and individual media artists in New York State. Groups attending: Richard Simmons (Everson Museum), John Orentlicher (Experimental Studios at Syracuse University), Ralph Hocking (Experimental Television Center), Sherry Miller (Experimental Television Center), Phil Jones (Ithaca Video Project), Gunilla Jones (Ithaca Video Project), Carl Geiger (Innervision Media Systems), Joe Scala (CAST), David Shapiro (Media Study/Buffalo), Nancy Cain (Media Bus), Jon Held (Mid-York Library Systems), John Camelio (Portable Channel), Bob Shay (Portable Channel), Vince Doody (Media Programs at SUNY Oswego), Hal Schlid (WTOP cable at SUNY Oswego), Henry Baker (Synapse), Darrell Westlake (Synapse), Bill Dargie (Synapse), Woody Vasulka (Vasulka Corporation), Steina Vasulka (Vasulka Corporation), Nathan Lyons (Visual Studies Workshop), Arthur Tsuchiya (Visual Studies Workshop), Richard Phillips (Utica), Art Gillick (WCNY-TV), Pat Faust (WXXI-TV), Pat Anderson...

TeleGuide and Proposal for QUBE by Peter D'Agostino. QUBE was a two-way cable TV system in Columbus, OH. Proposal for QUBE was installed at Long Beach Museum of Art (1979).

Report: The 1979 National Conference of Media Arts Centers. Published by Foundation of Independent Video and Film. This conference was also known as the Minnewaska Conference. Includes papers by Virgil Grillo "A Proposal for Audience Development"; "A Proposal for NEA Small Grants Provision to be Distributed by Media Arts Centers"; "Touring Artists and Cooperative Bookings". Robert Haller "Payment to Artists for Exhibitions of Their Work"; "Media Arts Organizations 1966-1978". Alan Jacobs "A Proposal for a National Advocacy Newsletter". Jonas Mekas "Notes on the Preservation of Independently Made Films". Robert Sitton "A National Center for Independent Feature Film?". Susan Woll "Three Proposals for Supporting and Facilitating Production".

The Electronic Image workshop. 1980. A travelling workshop by Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller Hocking of the Experimental Television Center concerning image processing tools and techniques, sponsored by the University Wide Committee on the Arts for 20 colleges and universities around NYS. "The Electronic Image: A Travelling Workshop" at Jamestown Community College, Monroe Community College, Orange County Community College, Sullivan County Community College, Visual Studies Workshop, Mass Productions, (Ithaca), Utica College, Anthology Film Archives. COnducted by Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller Hocking of the Experimental Television Center and sponsored by the University Wide Committee on the Art. 1979-1980.

The Governor's Office for Motion Pictures and Television is established in NYS.

The International Video Art Symposium, at The Agnes Etherington Art Centre of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. March 5-7, 1979. Transcript includes texts: Wulf Herzogenrath (Video Artists and Television as a Medium); Ian Murray (Support Structures for Artists Working with Videotape; Susan Britton (Video Lunch); Paul Wong (Making Video: Cable Access, Artists Cooperatives, Fees and Rights); Reprints from "Video as a Community or Political Tool", Vancouver Art Gallery; David Hall (London Video Arts); Maria Bicocchi (Video and its Distribution); Kate Craig (Outlets for Video); Michael Goldberg (Free Television); Clive Robertson (TV Art in the Home); Jamie Davidovich (Home Marketing of Video Art).

Video by Videomakers exhibition series 1979, at the Experimental TV Center, curated by Peer Bode. Works and personal presentations by Ralph Hocking, Gary Hill, Shigeko Kubota, Ernie Gusella.

Bill Etra, Dan Sandin, Lee Felsenstein, Bill Hearn design Video Modular System

WNED-TV, PBS affiliate in Buffalo. Broadcast of Vasulka Video, by Woody and Steina Vasulka

4th Annual Ithaca Video Festival was presented at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Works by Ann Volkes, Peter Bettendorff, Skip Blumberg, Tobe Carey, Doris Chase, James Edwards, Alan Esner/Jamie Newman, Ernest Gusella, Gary Hill, Leland Johnston, Steven King, Mitchell Kriegman, Pat Lehman, Eva Maier, Laurie McDonald, Michael Moser, Alan Powell, N.O.V.A.C., Marilyn Rivchin/John Reaves, Karen Simon Petersen, Vibeke Sorensen, John Sanborn/Kit Fitzgerald, Diane Spodarek, Edin Velez and Bill Viola played 5 hours a day

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Exhibition: Vasulka: Steina - Machine, Woody - Description, with catalog. Curator, Linda Cathcart.

Barbara Buckner presents video at the Creative Music Studio. Sponsored by the Women's Studio Workshop.

Black Filmmaker Foundation, New York City, is founded by Warrington Hudlin and George Cunningham

Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1977-78. Bill Beirne, Nancy Cain, Hermine Freed, Nancy Holt, Angelo Jannuzzi and Thom Sudano, Terry Mack, Ruth Rotko, Bill Stephens. Panel: Robert Burns, Shigeko Kubota, Rita Myers, Tony Ramos, Arthur Tsuchiya.

Electron Movers Video Show. March 28, 1978. at 128 Main Street, Providence. Laurie McDonald, Alan Powell, Ed Tannenbaum, Dennis Hlynsky, Bill Jungels.

Ellipsis: A Video/Dance performance at the Experimental Television Center, March 21-22. Performers: Cara Brownell, Chana Gazit, Julie Harrison and Company.

Jerome Foundation begins awarding fellowships for film- and videomakers in New York State

John Sturgeon: Two Video Installations, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1/21/78-2/19/78. Catalog introduction by David Ross.

Nancy Sher Director, Film Program, New York State Council on the Arts 1978-1980

Alpha, Trans, Chung. Peter D'Agostino: A Photographic Model: Semiotics, Film, and Interpretation. Texts by Rae Blakeney (Syntactics and the On-Going Work of Peter D'Agostino) , Alain Robbe-Grillet (Order and Disorder in Film and Fiction) and William Luhr (Semiotics and Film: From an Interview with Umberto Eco). Review by Hal Foster.

Richard Landry concert at Experimental Television Center. 5/4/78. An in-person concert performance by Landry

Steina Vasulka video exhibition at Experimental Television Center. 4/14/78

The Moving Image Statewide, programmed by John Minkowsky of Media Study/Buffalo. A Traveling exhibition distributed by Media Study/Buffalo. Sponsored by the University WIde Committee on the Arts. Included 13 tapes by Peter Campus, William Wegman, Bill Viola, Cara DeVito, Andy Mann, Joan Jonas, Woody and Steina Vasulka,.

Fourth Annual Video and Television Documentary Festival. May 28 - June 10, 1978. Organized by Global Village, Festival Director, and Barbara Mayfield, Julie Gustafson and Karen Mooney, Program Coordinators. Stevenson Palfim Andrew Kolker and Eddie Kurtz/NOVAC; Nancy Porter; Alan Esner and Jamie Newman; James Blue, Ed Hugetz and Brian Huberman; USER Video; Pamela Hill; Seabrook Video Collective; Laurie McDonald; Bob and Ingrid Wiegand; Man June Paik and Dimitri Devyatkin; Arthur Ginsberg; Maxi Cohen; William Berg; Leandra Strobing; Judy Graf Klein; Steven Schindler with Dan Klugherz, CHristine O'Sage, Jay Padroff and Douglas Scott; Manuel Carvalho; Maurice Bell; Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno; Allen Gordon; Susan Landry and Deborah Perlberg; Bill Hoare and Media Team; Carlos DeJesus; Bob and Nancy Thurber; Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation and the TV Lab at WNET; Perry Teasdale; Rachael Strickland and Elaine Negroponte; Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn; Don Widener; Alex Bennett and Media Ranch; Nicholas Stein; Gunilla Mallory Jones with Philip Mallory Jones. Exhibiton catalog.

Videopolis, Chicago, closes. Video/resource teaching center

Word Star word processing program written by Rob Barnaby available for Intel 8080 Z 80 based CP/M-80 systems

"New Work in Abstract Video Imagery", at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. 12/1-1/2/77. Curated by Richard Simmons of the Everson Museum; available for travel. Photo by Carol Goss. Included work by Barbara Buckner, Carl Geiger; Carol Goss; Gary Hill; Ralph Hocking; Don McArthur; Joseph Scala; Patsy Scala; Steina Vasulka; Woody Vasulka; Walter Wright.

5th International Video Exchange Directory published by Satellite Video Exchange Society. Daryl Lacey and Shawn Preus. Listings of 500 groups and individuals using small-format video. Includes information about standards for international tape exchanges, and a bibliography of publications. The publication was not sold.

Photography exhibition by Arnie Zane at Experimental Television Center

"Sylvanscapes" video installation by Laurie McDonald, member of Electron Movers, assisted by Michael Carr at Artpark, Lewiston, NY. From the catalog: "Phosphorescent chemicals were poured into three 100" lengths of clear flexible plastic tubing. The tubing was woven through the trees, rocks, and bushes of the Ames Theater trail, its light illuminating much of the surrounding areas and creating a delicate drawing through the woods. The next night the plastic tubing was placed in the Niagara River at a point of changing currents and numerous eddies and whirlpools. When the current went downstream, the phosphorescent lines would be pulled 10" below the surface of the water, diffusing the light. When the current flowed upstream, sections of the tubing surfaced and snaked around, sometimes combining clearly diffused light with designs from diffused light."

"Video Trail" site-specific installation, Robert Jungels and Alan Powell and Laurie McDonald, members of Electron Movers, at Artpark, Lewiston, NY. Description from the catalog: "Six 23" monitors were buried in the woods along the Ames Theater trail so that only the screens were exposed, displaying images from the environment: close-ups of a tunnel spider and web, ripening berries, the sky seen through silhouttes of leaves, people walking, viewed from above."

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Astoria Motion Picture Foundation to study development of programs for independent video and filmmakers and the general public. Astoria Motion Picture Foundation uses former motion picture studio in Queens.

Beryl Korot presentation of Dachau 1974 at Experimental Television Center 5/4/77.

Comodore Business Machines introduces Pet 2001 computer includes 4 KB ram and tape drive for $600

Design in Electronic Arts conference at Media/Study Buffalo. 3/10-13/77. Presentations by Charles Csuri; Tom DeFanti; Dan Sandin; Phil Morton; Ken Knowlton; Laurie Spiegel; Sonia Sheridan; John Whitney; Stan Vanderbeek; Tom DeWitt; Walter Wright; Don McArthur; Bill Etra; Woody Vasulka. Performances by Gordon Mumma; Alvin Lucier; David Behrman; Robert Ashley. Curated by John Minkowsky.

Fridericianum Museum, Germany, "Documenta 6"

Electronic Arts at Media/Study Buffalo. Presentations by Ralph Hocking, Don McArthur, Peer Bode, Meryl Blackman and Walter Wright of the Experimental Television Center at Media Study/Buffalo; curated by John Minkowsky. October 1977.

Sound Construction with Gary Hill. A sound workshop conducted by Gary Hill at Experimental Television Center 3/17-18/77

Harald Bode developed Bode Vocoder

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, D.C., Public Media Program becomes Media Arts Program

Media Equipment Resource Center (MERC), New York City, reorganizes as access service with TV studio, equipment loan and post-production divisions

"Open Stacks: Video". Massachusetts: Williamstown College Museum of Art.

Southland Video Anthology 1976-77 exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. Curator: David Ross. Included work by John Sturgeon.

The Independent Film Community published. This report was generated by the Mohonk Conference. The report suggested that there were common areas of concern shared by all media centers; these included issues of visibility, funding, communications and publication of efforts and programs. National leadership wasidentified as a shared need; advocacy on a national level and public education about the activities of all media centers, including the "alternative" centers, was important to advancement of the field.

Top Value Television (TVTV), San Francisco, founded; Independent documentary production group disbands

Woodstock Community Video's, Woodstock, New York, presents Woodstock Video Expovision, at the Arnolfini Arts Center October 7-9, 1977. Events included The TV Commercial: Is it Art? by Bruce Kurtz; Public Television and Video Art, by Betsy Connors; Video Art and the Art Critic by John Orentlicher, Gary Hill, Ernest Gusella; West Coast Video; The Police Tapes by Susan and Alan Raymond.

On February 7, 1976 the Television Laboratory at WNET/Channel 13 of NYC began "Video and Television Review", the weekly presentation of a series of experimental programs made by independent artists and producers or by the artists in residence at the WNET TV Lab and WGBH/Boston's Experimental Workshop as well as other experimental centers. Most of the programs which were aired, including interviews with artists by host Russell Connor, were made available from Electronic Arts Intermix. The series was conceived by David Loxton. Artists included TVTV (excerpts from Gerlad Ford's America, Lord of the UNiverse and Four More Years), Ian Hugo (Transcending), Ed Emschwiller (Crossings and Meetings and Scape-Mates), John Reilly and Stefan Moore (The Irish Tapes), Skip Sweeney (Ocean), Andy Mann (All Across Boston), Peter Campus (Three Transitions and Set of Coincidence), Downtown Community Television Center (a profile of DCTV), Nam June Paik (Global Groove), Arthur Ginsberg and Video Free America (The COntinuing Story of Carel and Ferd), Tom DeWitt (Cathode Ray Theater), Cara DeVito (Ama L'Uomo Tuo), and makers in the schools.

Apple I introduced by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

Woodstock Community Video's, Artists' TV Lab in Woodstock, New York, moves to Rhinebeck, New York

Bob Diamond with Cloud Music exhibition at ETC, 6/26-27/76. From Ars Electronica catalog, Video Pioneers, curated by Woody and Steina Vasulka; participation by ETC and Ralph Hocking.ETC supplied many early devices, and assisted with public interfaces; reprint of equipment manual written by Sherry Miller Hocking and Rich Brewster.

Computer Animation System using GRASS. Support from the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, Sloan Foundation, Graham Foundation, National Endowmen for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council and Victor General Corporation. Dan Sandin and Tom DeFanti.

Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1975-76. Elaine Baley, Skip Blumberg, Peer Bode, Bart Friedman, Julia Heyward, Philip Mallory Jones, Beryl Korot, Shigeko Kubota, Michael Marton, Ira Schneider. Panel: Louise Etra, Ralph Hocking, Richard Landry, Polly McLean, David Sasser, William Wegman.

Electron Movers studio was located at 128 N Main Street in Providence, RI. The studio was housed in a 5,000 ft. loft space in the Fain Carpet Building

Queen Elisabeth II sends email

Everson Video 1975. Judson Rosebush, catalog editor. Included Ant Farm; Community Video/CAST; David Cort; Dance Media; Dimitri Devyatkin; Electron Movers; Dieter Froese; Beryl Korot; Shigeko Kubota; Andy Mann; Paul Ott and Fred Kessler; Peter Van Riper; Bill Viola.

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Independent Creative Artists Project (ICAP), under direction of Kitty Morgan, to help independents market work on cable

Input, International Public Television Screening, instituted at a meeting organized by the Rockefeller Foundation and CIRCOM, International Co-operative for Research and Action in Communication. Recognized need for exchange of cultural programs among nations.

KQED-TV, San Francisco, National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET) ends

Movements for Video Dance and Music at the Herbert F Johnson Museum, Ithaca.. performance with Peer Bode, Meryl Blackman, Bill Jones and Arnie Zane. Support from the Experimental Television Center.

Direct support of film production continues to grow despite New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) 6.9 million dollar budget reduction

Construction of the Pantomation system began in November 1976 at Electronic Body Arts, Albany.

Synergism, a travelling performance collaboration between Woodstock Community Video and Experimental Television Center. 1975 and 1976.. performance by Tobe Carey, Gary Hill, Sara Cook, Ken Marsh and Walter Wright. Use of image processors and synthesizers.

The Dreme Style of Michael Butler exhibition at the Everson Museum, Syracuse. 2/27-4/11/76. Video, costumes, photographs, drawings. Video produced at Experimental Television Center.

Women's Video Festival at The Kitchen, September 28-October 14, 1976, co-sponsored by Women's Interart Center. Festival Co-ordinators - Susan Milano, Shridar Bapat and Patti Hazan. Kitchen Directors: Shridar Bapat, Jim Burton, Bob Stearns. Jane Aaron, Susan Amon, Wendy Appel, ArtDOC/NY, Varerie Bouvier, Nancy Cain, Doris Chase, Maxi Cohen, Victoria Costello, Louise Denver, Cara DeVito, Louise Etra, Dudley Evanson, Estelle Farber, Linda Gibson, Marisa Gioffre, Jenny Goldberg, Cynthia Grey, International Video letters, Shigeko Kubota, Pat Lehman, Lesbians Organized for Video Experience, Mary Lucier, Eva Maier, Laurie McDonald, Susan Milano, Susan Mogul, Tirzah Mutrux and Madge Stewart Willner, CHristina Noschese with Marisa Gioffre and Valerie Bouvier, Optic Nerve, Marcia Rock, Lynda Rodolitz, Ulrike Rosenbach, Santa Cruz Women's Media Collective, Tomiyo Sasaki, Rochelle Shulman, Spectra Feminist Media, Steina Vasulka, Carol Vontobel, Madge Stewart Willner, Susan Wolfson. Catalog.

"Video Maze" an exhibition of closed-circuit electronic sculpture by Electron Movers, at the Everson Museum of Art, September 26 - October 22, 1975. Curated by Richard Simmons. From the Press Release of the Everson Museum: The exhibition is described as participatory electronic sculpture and will utilize the museum goer in its many compositions and 'games'. The group's main concern is to establish and explore the realm of the electronic arts. There is great emphasis placed on the learning processed and perceptual development within the group and in certain pieces that the group executes. They are not concerned with established narrative formats of the communications media, but are trying to explore the intersections of many disciplines. Video is eclectic in nature - video is a combination of many modes of operation from other media. It even takes on the appearance of other aesthetics. Video can 'look like' drawing, painting, sculpture and film and it is all of these things. The potential of the video camera is the potential of the paint brush. The group of siz artists, Robert and Dorothy Jungels, Laurie McDonals, Alan Powell, Dennis Hlynsky and Ed Tannenbaum came together from...

first mailing list created by ARPANET. Frst popular list was devoted to science fiction. First all-inclusive email program developed (reply, forward etc)

Paul Allen and Bill Gates license BASIC first used on the Altair, Microsoft founded.

Byte Magazine published

Dr. Don McArthur, Walter Wright, Paul Davis, Ralph Hocking, David Jones propose the use of a computer as image generator and control system.

Jones Grey Level Keyers, Oscillator Bank and Multi Input Sequencer are available through the Artist in Residence Program at the Experimental Television Center. Devices designed by David Jones; construction and documentation by Rich Brewster.

Exprmntl 5: Fifth International Experimental Film Competition. Catalog and program. Video environments by Walter Wright (Experimental Television Center); Woody and Steina Vasulka ( University of Buffalo); David Cort; Tom DeWitt, Tony Conrad. Catalog essay by Seth Feldman; catalog prepared by Media Study/Buffalo.

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Intermedia Art Center (IMAC), Bayville, under direction of Michael Rothbard, for a media equipment center. Others associated: Norman Pollack

Land Truth Circus, San Francisco, experimental video collective renamed Truthco in 1972 becomes T.R. Uthco

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City, for "Cineprobe" film exhibition series. Funds are for filmmakers to screen and discuss their work.

Nuts and Volts conference 5/5-5/7/75. . sponsored by Media Study/Buffalo and the Center for Media Study at University of Buffalo. presentations by Ton Constanten; Harald Bode; Steve Rutt; Steina Vasulka and Woody Vasulka; Arnold Dreyblatt; Robert Moog; Lajaren Hiller and John Myhill. Concerts by Joel Chadabe; Judith Martin; Freida Schrott; and the Buffalo String Quartet; Pat Feldballe and Walter Gajewski; Martin Kalve and Friends. Video presentations by Ralph Hocking; Walter Wright; Don McArthur; Jean- Pierre Boyer

Pacifica Radio/WBAI, New York City, funded by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for experimental audio programming

Sony introduces Betamax, a consumer format for home use; marketed primarily to record off-the-air programming

Southland Video Anthology 1975 exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art. Curator: David Ross. History of video in Southern California. David Ross, Deputy Director Film/Television.

Tele-Techno Phone Conferences, coordinated by Lanesville TV. A regularly scheduled series of telephone conferences to discuss technical issues. Objective was to share information concerning technical problems, repairs and modifications to 1/2" video recording technology, and computer/video interfaces, and to discuss ways that media centers could work together to solve equipment access and repari problems. Participants included Carl Geiger (Innervision), Kevin Kenney (Media Equipment Resource Center), Chuck Heuer (Portable Channel), Chuck Kennedy (Lanesville TV), Don McArthur (Experimental Television Center), Dave Jones (Experimental Television Center), Parry Teasdale (Lanesville TV), Ken Jesser (Intermedia Art Center). First conference call on May 15, 1975.

The Kitchen "Hocking and The Vasulkas". Exhibition of media installations, videotapes and photographs by Ralph Hocking, WOody and Steina Vasulka.

USENET established,. Packet radio experiments. Computer science departments established at academic institutions 1975 - 1979

Video and Education in New York Sate Art Museums - A two day conference Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University Ithaca, New York In April 1975, Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, held a two day conference on video and education in New York State Art Museums. Attendees included representatives from the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; American Crafts Council, New York City; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; The Bronx Museum, Bronx; Cable Arts Foundation, New York City; The Depot, Yuma, Arizona; Elmira Public Schools, Elmira; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Gallery Association, Norwich; The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University Art Collection, New York City; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Harpur College, Binghamton; Hartwick College, Oneonta; Heckscher Museum, Fredonia; The Hudson River Museum at Yonkers, Inc., Yonkers; Ithaca Video Project, Ithaca; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; The Museum of...

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, for "Projected Video" exhibition

WNET/13, New York City, funded by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for a new independent video series, "Video/Television Review" (VTR)

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) supports "Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television," held at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City. The Conference brings together curators, artists and critics to share ideas and models of production, distribution and exhibition of video art. Proceedings were published in The New Television: A Public/Private Art by the MIT Press (1977).

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds independent film tours at American Federation of Arts, New York City

Circuit: A Video Invitational exhibition at School of The Museum of Fine Arts Gallery, Boston. 1/7-2/3/74.

Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1973-74. William Creston, Ron Dubren, Tom DeWitt, Bruce Fergerson, Janet Goldberg, Ernest Gusella, Susan Milano, Nina Sobel, Bill Stephens, Wolfgang Stoerchle. Panel: Elaine Baly, Shridar Bapat, Beryl Korot, Nam June Paik, Alphonse Schilling, Keiko Tsuno.

Educational Communication Centers and the Television Arts, conference at SUNY Albany. November 21-22, 1974. Coordinator, Gerald O'Grandy of Center for Media Study at SUNY Buffalo. The purpose was to present the latest developments in the video arts and related technology, to suggest ways in which the communication centers can serve developing media artists in their own campuses, and to indicate ways the centers can 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 (SUNY Albany), Ralph Hocking (Binghamton U and Experimental Television Center), Walter Wright (Experimental Television Center demonstration of Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer), John Roy (U of Massachusetts), Woody Vasulka, Russell Connor 9Cable Arts Foundation), Lance Wisniewski (Synapse), Carl Geiger (Innervision), Peter Bradley (NYS Council on the Arts), Lydia Silman (NYS Council on the Arts), DA Pennybaker, Gerd Stern (Intermedia Systems Corp).

"Circuit: A Video Invitational," Everson Museum, Syracuse; curated by David Ross; traveling exhibition of videotapes by over sixty-five artists,. Travels to Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Kˆlnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, West Germany; and Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina

First Ithaca Video Festival. Forty entries; 7 selected for exhibition. The Festival was one of the first regular travelling exhibitions of video work in the US.

Jones Four Channel Colorizer, designed by David Jones, is made available through the Artist in Residence Program at the Experimental Television Center.

Museum of Modern Art established video department.

The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, a membership organization to further the interests of these producers was founded in 1974 with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds six public television stations to purchase time-base correctors. Time-base correctors enable public television stations to prepare nonbroadcast quality tapes for broadcast.

Videa 'n' Videology: Nam June Paik (1959-1973) at Everson Museum of Art and Galeria Bonino, NYC, 1974. Catalog forward by James Harithas; reprints of Paik letters, notes, essays; photos. Catalog editor: Judson Rosebush

Video Tapes Kolnischer Kunstverein. Introduction by Wulf Herzogenrath. Exhibition included Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Robert Arn, David Attwood, John Baldessari, Stephan Beck, Lynda Benglis, Chris Burden, Doug Davis, Peter Campus, Frank Cavastani, Laura Cavastani, Ken Dominick, Juan Downey, Ed Emshwiller, Valie Export, Terry Fox, Hermine Freed, Frank Gillette, Joel Glassman, Ron Hays, Ralph Hocking, Nancy Holt, Rebecca Horn, Taka Iimura, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, Beryl Korot and Ira Schneider, Stephan Kolpan, Paul Kos, Richard Landry, Shigeko Kubota, Les Levine, Andy Mann, Rita Myers, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, Tony Ramos, Peter van Riper, Ulrike Rosenbach, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Eric Siegle, Keith Sonnier, Aldo Tambellini, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka, Videofreex, Bill Viola, Wolf Vostell, William Wegman, Peter Weibel, Walter Wright, Jud Yalkut.

Visual Studies Workshop receives grant from New York State Council on the Arts TV/Media Program for artists' fees and equipment for a media resource center.

ZBS Foundation, Fort Edward, receives New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding for sound/audio art experiments

"Circuit: A Video Invitational," Everson Museum, Syracuse; curated by David Ross; traveling exhibition of videotapes by over sixty-five artists,. Travels to Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Kˆlnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, West Germany; and Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina

"International Computer Arts Festival," The Kitchen at Mercer Arts Center, New York City; organzied by Dimitri Devyatkin. Included music, poetry, film and video

Howard Wise initiated the Artists Videotape Distribution Service at Electronic Arts Intermix.

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds film exhibition at Cornell Cinema, Ithaca. Funds for year-round film screenings. Directors have included Richard Herskowitz, Mary Fessenden

Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1972-73. Nancy Cain, Joseph Chiara, Dimitri Devyatkin, Carl Geiger, John Keeler, Steven Kolpan, Joanna Milton, David Sasser, Brent Sharman, Barry Solomon, Lance Wisniewski. Panelists: Dean Evans, Phillip Mallory Jones, Ken Marsh, Maurice McClelland, Carole Zeitland.

David Cort was a visiting artist at Visual Studies Workshop

Electronic Body Arts chartered. Founders were George Kindler, Phil Edelstein.

Frank Gillette: Video: Process and Meta-Process at Everson Museum, Syracuse. Organized by Jim Harithas; coordinated by Sandra Trop Blumberg and David Ross. Catalog editor: Judson Rosebush

Gay Video Workshop held at Experimental Television Center 11/30-12/2/72. Organized by David Sasser, Queer Blue Light Gay Video Revolution. A public service project of the Creative Artists Public Service Program. This was "an intensive 3 day 1/2" videotape workshop for gay men and women from organizations all over the State. The focus of the workshop will be on minority uses of the public access channels of CATV systems in New York State." - David Sasser, letter to Ralph Hocking 9/23/73.

Global Village, New York City, funded by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for an annual documentrary video festival

Intel 8008 kit offered for $565

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation awards first video fellowship

Mohonk Conference, officially titled the Conference on Regional Development of Film Centers and Services, organized by the Museum of Modern Art and the Pacific Film Archives. A national conference held February 1973 at Mohonk, NY, attended by about 30 directors of regional media programs. About 33% of participants represented organizations which were not in existence at the time of the writing of the Stanford Report (1967). Most of the participants represented foundations, universities museums and governmental entities; the alternative spaces were not represented. Conference support from Rockefeller Foundation, the John and Mary Markle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The report "The Independent Film Community" was published in 1977.

Perception, New York City, founded by Eric Siegel and Steina and Woody Vasulka; gourp of artists interested in alternative uses of video, disbands

Steve Rutt and Bill Etra develop Rutt/Etra scan processor

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Rochester and Syracuse public television stations to purchase time-base correctors. Time-base correctors enable public television stations to prepare nonbroadcast quality tapes for broadcast.

Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, establishes media center; begins production of Afterimage with coverage of video; director, Nathan Lyons; media center coordinators include Wayne Luke, Laddy Kite, Mona Jimenez, Arthur Tsuchiya, Nancy Norwood, Robert Doyle. Production facility with workshops and exhibitions

First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) support to White Ox, Rochester, for film production equipment access and workshops

1973 Whitney Museum Biennial included seven videotapes and one installation, selected by the curators of painting and sculpture

"First Annual National Video Festival," Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Walker Art Center; organized by Tom Drysdale. Consists of workshops, screenings and panel discussion; participants include Peter Campus, Russell Connor, Ed Emshwiller, Nam June Paik, Barbara Rose, Ira Schneider, George Stoney, Aldo Tambellini and Gene Youngblood

"First Women's Video Festival," The Kitchen at Mercer Arts Center, New York City; organized by Susan Milano. Includes work by Jackie Cassen, Maxi Cohen, Yoko Maruyama, Susan Milano, Queer Blue Light Video, Keiko Tsuno, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Women's Video Collective; and dance and performance by Judith Scott and Elsa Tambellini

"Ninth Annual New York Avant-Garde Festival," Alexander Hamilton, Hudson Riverboat, New York; director, Charlotte Moorman. Includes special video projects by over fifteen artists

"Dying Swan" live video performance by Alan Powell at Rhode Island School of Design

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Art Works on Television, New York City, for a facility at Automation House

Collaborations in Art, Science and Technology, Ithaca. New York State Council on the Arts funding (20,000) to continue art and technology programs, cable productions and a multimedia poetry tour.

Dan Sandin, Chicago, builds Image Processor, and eventually with Phil Morton, makes plans availble to artists

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Downtown Community Television, founded by Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno, for workshops and media arts center in Chinatown

Electronic Arts Intermix establishes an editing/post-production facility

"The establishment here, of what I believe is the first video department and continuous video program at any public museum in the United States, in March 1972 came as a result of my early conversations with Nam June Paik, with Frank Gilette and later with the museum's curator of video arts, David Ross. Ross began planning the department roughly 6 months before it was actually established. It's basic idea was that of providing artists with access to the form. He went on to develop an exhibition format for video art, a small archive, a community oriented education program, and an initial plan for promoting the museum's participation in the cable TV system, to be established in Syracuse during the next few years. A substantial donation from the Rosamond Gifford Foundation provided the basic hardware for the Department". - James Harithas, catalog for Work from the Experimental Television Center, September 1972.

"Nam June Paik," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Tapes, installations and performances with Charlotte Moorman

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Experimental Television Center to develop Paik-Abe video synthesizer. First system placed at the TV Lab at WNET; second system placed at the Center for the Residency Program.

Between Paradigms: The Mood and its Purpose by Frank Gillette published by Gordon and Breach, New York

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Isolated Community Program funds Genesee Region Video Journal for a cable project

Land Truth Circus, San Francisco, experimental video collective renamed Truthco

1972 Film/Imagemaking Workshop at Media Study Buffalo. Gerry O'Grady (sound) assists filmmaker Ed Emshwiller (camera) in some shooting at the Gelatin Factory.

Film director Nicholas Ray at the Cinema Department (1971-1973), Binghamton University . Nick Ray was visiting film professor. Produced sections of film, originally titled "Gun Under My Pillow" (later titled We Can't Go Home Again) at Experimental Television Center with Ralph Hocking, using Video Synthesizer to break up film image plane into multiple image sources.

Paik Abe Video Synthesizer added to the imaging system at the Experimental Television Center and made available through the Artist in Residence Program.

Portable Channel, Rochester, founded; directors include Bonnie Klein, Sanford Rockowitz, John Camelio, Robert Shea and Tim Kelly. Video resource center with workshops, visiting artist series, equipment access, producitons

Public Access Celebration marked the first anniversary of Public Channel programming on cable television in Manhattan. Individuals, video groups, City agencies and the New York State Council on the Arts, Sterling Manhattan Cable and Teleprompter Corporation cooperated to produce an informational event about public access for the general public. Survival Arts Media participated and helped produce a report, published in January 1973.

Shigeko Kubota exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. Assistance from Experimental Television Center. 9/30/72.

Survival Arts Media, New York, founded; members included Gail Edwards, Howard Gudstadt, Molly Hughes, Ben Levine, Danny Bucciano and Richard Malone. Video collective emphasizing community education and health programs, programs on artists and artistic practices and multimedia shows

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds The Everson Museum, Syracuse, for video exhibition program, David Ross, video curator. Funds for film and video exhibition programs, including an installation by Frank Gillette.

Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman perform live at The Kitchen, June 29, 1972. Technical assistance by Ralph Hocking, Experimental Television Center.

Top Value Television (TVTV), San Francisco, founded; Independent documentary production group providing alternative coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions in Miami; the first use of half-inch videotape on broadcast television. Original produciton by Hudson Marquez, Allen Rucker, Michael Shamberg, Tom Weinberg, Megan Williams, and members of Ant Farm, Raindance, and Videofreex collectives; other members of TVTV include Wendy Apple, Michael Couzens, Paul Goldsmith, Betsy Guignon, Stanton Kaye, Anda Korsts, Andy Mann and Elon Soltes

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), New York City, forms TV/Media Program. New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), total appropriation is 16.3 million. Staff of Film, TV/Media and Literature Program: Peter Bradley (Director), Barbara Haspiel (Film Associate), Russell Connor (TV/Media Associate), Lydia Silman (TV/Media Program Assistant), Constance Eiseman (Literature Associate). Directors have included: Peter Bradley, Paul Ryan, Russell Connor, Gilbert Konishi, Lydia Silman, Nancy Legge, John Giancola, Debby Silverfine, Karen Helmerson.

Visual Studies Workshop funded by New York State Council on the Arts ($15,000) for artists' fees for visiting artists multimedia program, and to establish research center with library of audiotapes, films and videotapes.

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Women Make Movies, New York City, under direction of Ariel Dougherty, for filmmaking workshops in Chelsea

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Women's Interart Center, New York City, for an equipment pool and workshop program organized by Ronnie Geist

Woodstock Community Video, Woodstock, New York, founded by Ken marsh; members include Barbara Buckner, Bob Dacy, Gary Hill, Steven Kolpan and Elaine Milosh. Production center and resource for community video; initiates local cable programming; begins Artists' TV Lab

Xerox begins project Alto to build personal computer for research

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) TV/Media program works with seven public television stations to develop "Carousel" series . New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) TV/Media program funds WNET-TV in NYC for artists in residence Nam June Paik and for "Carousel" program. Paik produces portion of Carosel program at Experimental Television Center using the Paik/Abe Synthezizer there.

"Eighth New York Avant-Garde Festival," 69th Regiment Armory, New York; Director, Charlotte Moorman. Individual video projects by Shirley Clarke, Douglas Davis, Ken Dominck, Ralph Hocking, Nam June Paik, Eric Siegel, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Videofreex

"Electronic Hokkadim 1" by Douglas Davis, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and WTOP-TV, Washington, D.C.. Live broadcast piece with two-way communications via telephone

"Ten Video Performances," Finch College Museum of Contemporary Art; organized by Elayne Varian. Works by Vito Acconci, Peter Campus, Douglas Davis, Dan Graham, Alex Hay, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Steve Reich, Eric Siegel and Simone Whitman

Woody Vasulka and Steina Vasulka presentation "Transmitted Environment", at the Experimental Television Center

"Video Variations," WGBH-TV, Boston, prodcued by Fred Barzyk; collaborations between Boston Symphony Orchestra and artists. Artists include: Jackie Cassen, Russell Connor, Douglas Davis, Constantine Manos, Nam June Paik, James Seawright, Stan VanDerBeek and Tsai WenYing

Alternative Media Center, School of the Arts, New York University, New York City, founded by Red Burns and George Stoney; director, Red Burns. Funded by the John and Mary Markle Foundation to explore the uses of broadcast telecommunications

Challenge for Change at NYU conference November 21-23, 1971. 50 participants from NYS met with people from the Challenge for Change unit of the National Film Board of Canada. The NYU Media Coop gathered tapes and print materials concerning the proceedings. Conference was sponsored by the NYU Media Coop, the Alternate Media Center at NYU. Participants included Bonnie Klein (Media Equipment Pool, Rochester) Lynn McVeigh (Hunter College) Women's Video Collective, Open Channel, Ralph Hocking (Experimental Television Center), St. John Fisher College in Rochester, Red Burns ( Alternate Media Center at NYU), Lillian Katz (Port Washington Public Library), Joel Gold (Alternate Media Center at NYU), Len Chatwin (Challenge for Change), George Stoney (Alternate Media Center at NYU), Beryl Korot (Raindance), Bernard Grey (Community Video Center ), Skip Blumberg (Videofreex), Michael Shamberg, Thea Sklover, Bart Friedman (Videofreex), Gay Activists' Video Alliance, Tom Johnson (Social Research and Action Center at Antioch College), Jan Jalton (Blue Bus), Lee Fergueson (Women's Video Collective), Michael Goldberg (Video Exchange Directory in Vancouver)

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City, for the Avant-Garde Festival at the 69th Regiment Armory, organized by Charlotte Moorman

February 10, 1971. Eric Siegel announces the Electronic Video Synthesizer. Information available through Howard Wise Gallery.

First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to the Everson Museum, Syracuse. Funding for film.

First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to Film Forum, New York City. Funds to exhibit independent films.

First computer kit ($503) introduced by National Radio Institute

First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to the Guggenheim Museum, New York City. Funding for film.

First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to International Museum of Photography/George Eastman House, Rochester. Funds for film screenings and an International Film Festival.

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Media Bus, Lanesville, established by the Videofreex. Funding for mobile media bus workshop program.

Media Equipment Resource Center (MERC), New York City, initiated by Young Filmmakers/Video Arts opens. Equipment loan service for artists and organizations

Museum of Modern Art, Projects series, interactive installation by Keith Sonnier

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, D.C., initiates Public Media Program; directors include Chloe Aaron and Brian O'Doherty. Other associates include Arthur Tsuchiya, Mary Smith

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds New York University (NYU) Media Co-op, under direction of George Stoney. Funding for a cable project.

Open Channel, New York, founded by Thea Sklover; Director of Programming, Lee Ferguson. Organization for development of public access; produces community programming, conducts workshops, school programs and organizes talent pool of film and television professionals to produce public-access programming

"Tapes from all Tribes," Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, exhibits videotapes by over 100 American artists; organized by Video Free America

New York City mandates public access as part of its cable franchise

SMPTE time code makes computer-assisted editing possible

Sonsbeek 71, an exhibition which included artists from around the world, with an emphasis on site-specific and "audio-visual" works, including film and video. June 19 - August 15, 1971. Exhibitions occurred at multiple sites throughout Arnhem and The Netherlands. Participating organizations included the Stedelijk Museum. Included was a video studio, where invited artists came to create works; artists included Nam June Paik, Jack Moore, Eric Siegel, Stanley Brown and joepat. The film exhibition included three categories - structural film, land art film and artists film; Regina Cornwell and Willard VanDyke assisted in programming. Artists included Vito Acconci, Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, Ernie Gehr, Dan Graham, Robert Nelson, Michael Snow, Peter Kubelka, George Landow, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Serra, Paul Sharits, Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland, Jud Yalkut.

Sony introduces first 3/4" U-matic video cassetts recorder

T.P. Video Space Troupe, New York City, founded by Shirley Clarke; experimental workshop exploring two-way video.. Original members include Wendy Clarke, Bruce Ferguson, and Andy Gurian

The Electronic Kitchen, New York City, founded by Steina and Woody Vasulka; screening and performance center for the electronic arts at Mercer Arts Center. 1971 established a first annual video festival. Original location at Broadway Central Hotel which housed the Mercer Arts Center. In 1973 moved to Broome Street. First funded through EAI. Subsequently known as The Kitchen Center for Video, Music and Dance; Video Directors include Shridhar Bapat, Dimitri Devyatkin, Carlota Schoolman, RoseLee Goldberg, Jackie Kain, Greg Miller, Tom Bowes and Amy Taubin

First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to The Whitney Museum of American Art for its first videotape exhibition, "A Special Videotape Show," curated by David Beinstock

Videopolis, Chicago, is founded by Andy Korsts. Video/resource teaching center

Installation works by Vito Acconci, Bill Beckley, Terry Fox and William Wegman at 93 Grand Street, New York City; organized by Willoughby Sharp

First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to Women's Interart Center, New York City, under direction of Margot Lewitin. Funds for a first festival of women's films (organized by Kristin Nordstrom) and to begin a film production workshop.

"Information," The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City. Curator, Kynaston McShine. Exhibition includes videotapes and installations from U.S., Europe and Latin America

"The First Gathering: Alternative Media Project," Godard College, Plainfield, Vermont, Media Conference

"Vision and Television," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. January 21 - February 22, 1970. Exhibition organized and with catalog forward by Russell Connor. Works by Frank Gillette (Amps, Volts and Watts), Ted Kraynik (Video Luminar #4) , Les Levine (The Dealer), Eugene Mattingly (Fred Helix), Nam June Paik with Charlotte Moorman,(TV Bra for Living Sculpture), Nam June Paik (The 9/23 Experiment, Still Life and Embryo for Wall to Wall TV), John Reilly and Rudi Stern (Innertube), Paul Ryan (Yes/No and Ego Me Absolvo), Ira Schneider (Random Interlace), Eric Siegel (Body, Mind and Video)., Aldo Tambellini (Some More Beginnings, Black Spiral and Black TV)), Jud Yalkut (Electronic Moon No. 2), USCO/Intermedia (Wave Forms and Tube Stills), Videofreex (Freex Out) and Joe Weintraub (AC/TV)

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) commissions Jackie Cassen to develop Artists' Television Workshop at WNET (Channel 13), New York City

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Community Center for Television Production, Binghamton. Founded by Ralph Hocking. Precursor to Experimental Television Center.

Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS), New York, begins awarding fellowships in video. About 1974 a program of videotapes by recipients was toured to venues throughout the State. In 1981 the touring program was curated and toured nationally.

Electronic Arts Intermix founded by Howard Wise after he closes his gallery. Explores video as a medium of personal expression and communication

First book publication to cover video art, Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood, E.P. Dutton, New York

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Film Art Fund (Anthology Film Archives), under the direction of Jonas Mekas, for public screenings at Public Theatre, New York City. First New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) support for Public Theatre screenings.

"Warehouse Show," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, exhibition . Includes video installation by Keith Sonnier

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

Equipment access funded by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Millenium Film Workshop, New York City

Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA), San Francisco, founded by Tom Marioni. An alternative museum created for performance and multimedia art

Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe develop Paik/Abe synthesizer while artists-in-residence at WGBH-TV, Boston

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds People's Video Theatre, New York City, co-founded by Howard Gutstadt and Ken Marsh. First New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding to several groups exploring the creative use of video.

First New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding to public television stations in Binghamton, Rochester, Garden City, Schenectady, Buffalo and Syracuse. Funding for cultural programming.

Raindance Foundation, New York, publishes Radical Software; Co-editors, Phyllis Gershuny and Beryl Korot; Published by Ira Schneider and Michael Shamberg; published 1970-1974, vols. 1-2. Alternative video magazine and information channel for distribution and exchange of video works. The complete set of issues is online at http://www.radicalsoftware.org/

Stephen Beck received a grant to develop the Direct Video Synthesizer for National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV in San Francisco.

With support from the New York State Council on the Arts, Ralph Hocking incorporated Student Experiments in Television as the Community Center for TV Production (Experimental Television Center), a non-profit media center and moved to a loft space in downtown Binghamton.

The Electronic Eye, Santa Clara, California, video collective disbands

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Shirley Clarke's Tower Playpen Videospace Troupe, New York City. First New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding to groups exploring the creative use of video.

Video Free America founded by Arthur Ginsberg and Skip Sweeney; Directors: Joanne Kelly and Skip Sweeney. Video production group with post-production and screening programs

Final design and construction of the last Vidium by Bill Hearn. This device was loaned to the Exploratorium, San Francisco.

"Subject to Change," SQN Productions for CBS, New York. Produced by Don West. Program of videotapes initiated by Don West with CBS and produced by Videofreex and other members of the video community. Videotapes produced on all aspects of the counterculture (alternative shools, communes, radicals, Black Panthers, riots, demonstrations, etc.) Never broadcast.

Accuracy in Media founded.

Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, established for artists to explore art and technology. Founded by Gyorgy Kepes, directed by Otto Piene

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

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) supports multi-media experimentation, Elaine Summers Experimental Intermedia Foundation funded for projects at C.W. Post College

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film and Television Program begins accepting applications for electronic media projects

Global Village, New York City, begins as video collective with information and screening center. Founded by John Reilly, Ira Schneider and Rudi Stern. Directors John Reilly and Julie Gustafson. Becomes media center devoted to independent video production with emphasis on video documentary

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

Live television broadcast from the moon.

Raindance Corporation, New York City, collective formed for experimental production.. Members: Frank Gillette, Michael Shamberg, Steve Salonis, Marco Vassi and Louis Jaffee; soon after Ira Schneider and Paul Ryan, and then Beryl Korot

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) supports multi-media experimentation, Thais Latham funded to develop a multi-media music center in Brooklyn

Videofreex, New York, founded. Experimental video group, members included: Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, David Cort, Bart Friedman, Davidson Gigliotti, Chuck Kennedy, Curtis Ratcliff, Parry Teasdale, Carol Vontobel, Tunie Wall and Ann Woodward

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds youth projects, Aldo Tambellini works with students and teachers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, Schenectady and New York City to experiment with creative potential of television

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds experimental media artists as part of "Intermedia 68," a theater workshop at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Projects include environmental video performances, film projections and videotapes by Aldo Tambellini, Nam June Paik, Les Levine, Carolee Schneemann, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Ken Dewey, USCO and others.

"The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Director of exhibition Pontus HultÈn. Exhibition includes video art, particularly Nam June Paik's "Nixon Tapes," "McLuhan Caged" and "Lindsay Tape" on unique tape-loop device

Ant Farm, San Francisco, an artists' media/architecture group, founded by Chip Lord and Doug Michels; joined by Curtis Schreier in 1971. Other members include Kelly Gloger, Joe Hall, Hudson Marquez, Allen Rucker and Michael Wright

Commediation video group, New York City. Original members: David Cort, Frank Gillette, Howard Gudstadt, Ken Marsh and Harvey Simon

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

"Electronic Art II" by Nam June Paik, Galeria Bonino, New York City

Stanford Research Institute demonstrates keyboard, keypad, mouse, for word processing

The American Film Institute (AFI) begins funding independent film and video production

Young Filmmakers/Video Arts, New York City founded, director, Roger Larson. Educational organization with training services, workshops and production facilities

ARPANET design discussions held, meetings among three independent teams working on packet networks (RAND, NLP- National Physics Lab in England - and ARPA)

Experimental Television Workshop at KQED-TV, San Francisco. Directed by Brice Howard and Paul Kaufman. Established with a Rockefeller Foundation grant

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.

IVC introduces 1" helical video recorders

"Electronic Blues" by Nam June Paik in "Lights in Orbit," Howard Wise Gallery, New York City. Viewer participation video installation

Rockfeller Foundation awards first video fellowship

Organization and Location of the American Film Institute, or the Stanford Report published. This was a research study assembled before the creation of the American Film Institute, and addressing questions about this soon-to-be-created AFI. "The authors of the report had little interest in either the non-feature-length film (a prejudice they acknowledged) or the possibility of encouraging regional development of film activity. " (from Report 11979: NAMAC, published by AIVF). The model of a centrally located center for film study and education was adopted; the AFI was located in Los Angeles, with a second operation in Washington, DC. A structural model using satellite or regional affiliates was rejected. The AFI was to be the most visible and public entity in the film and media field.

The Film Club, 16mm production workshop for Lower East Side teens, organized by Jaime Barrios. One of the first funded 16mm film production workshops. Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

"Light/Motion/Space," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in collaboration with Howard Wise Gallery, New York City. Travels to Milwaukee Art Center. Includes video works by Nam June Paik, Aldo Tambellini and others

"9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering" at the 69th Regiment, New York City. Organized by Billy Kl¸ver. Mixed media performance events with collaborations between ten artists and forty engineers. Video projection used in works of Alex Hay, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor and Robert Whitman.

Amateur Computer Society founder by Steven Gray

Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT) founded. Supports collaborations between artists and engineers. Billy Kluver, founder. EAT sought to pair artists with engineers, and worked with Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, John Cage and Andy Warhol. Some collaborations were exhibited at the World Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.

"Selma Last Year" by Ken Dewey, New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, Philharmonic Hall Lobby, New York City. Multichannel video installation with photographs by Bruce Davidson, music by Terry Riley

Contemporary Voices in the Arts toured Stan VanDerBeek and Billy Kluver to colleges for workshops and public presentations. Supported by New York State Council on the Arts.

In August 1965, NYSCA Executive Director John Hightower convened an advisory group to discuss ways the Council could help disseminate distribution information and tour films to communities throughout the state. (2) The group included Ralph Hetzel, the acting head of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Margareta Akermark, from the Museum of Modern Art's Film Library; Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16 and Program Director of the newly-founded New York Film Festival; and producers Arthur Meyer and Dore Shary, who soon after became the first Commissioner of New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs. This resulted in the Film Project, under the direction of Peter Bradley.

Congress creates the National Endowment for the Arts

Rockefeller Foundation began to fund artists for experimentation with video.

"New Cinema Festival I" (Expanded Cinema Festival), The Film-Makers Cinematheque. Organized by John Brockman. Festival explores uses of mixed-media projection, including viseo, sound, and light experiments

Ford Foundation funds independent filmmakers

SONY 1" video recording format

"Television DÈ-Coll/age" exhibition by Wolf Vostell, Smolin Gallery, New York City. First U.S. environmental installation using a television set.

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

Sony markets 2-inch open-reel videotape for the world's first transistor videotape recorder, the PV-100.

The New York State Council on the Arts commissioned Robert Bell to make Watching Ballet, a 16mm film with Jacques D'Amboise and Allegra Kent demonstrating ballet technique. The film, completed in 1963, was used in the Ballet Society's touring educational programs.

SONY announced the world's first transistorized video tape recorder, and two years later SONY's video tape recorder model PV-100 appeared.

First timebase corrector

Work on cooperative networks of time-sharing on computers from 1960 - 1969, sponsored by ARPA. MIT, RAND

Ampex markets first 2" quadruplex videotape recorde

Transcontinental television broadcasts in US.

USSR launches Sputnik- first artificial earth satellite. In response US creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency with the Department of Defence to increase US science and technology 1950-1959.

Ampex introduces first successful American audiotape recorder.

RCA demonstrates electronic television system.

FM radio introduced

Iconoscope electronic television camera patented by Vladimir Zworkin. In 1924 he patents a receiver, making possible the electronic scanning system of television.

Lee De Forest patents a vacuum tube, a key component in communications devices

R.A. Fessenden transmits human speech by radio waves

Paul Nipow patents a type of television using a mechanical scanning system with a rotating disk.