Timex Sinclair 1000 computer introduced for $99.95
Events by Year
1982
Transmission control protocol TCP established and Internet Protocol for use with ARPANET. This leads to one of the first definitions of an "internet" as a connected set of networks, specifically those using TCP/IP, and "Internet" as connected TCP/IP internets
1982
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Media Program gives first grants for video preservation and video crtiticism
1982
Video-Music: New Correlations exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, DOwntown Branch. Video works by Sara Hornbacher, Reynold Weidenaar, Shalom Gorewitz, Rii Kanzaki, The Lubies.
1982
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,...
1982
WXXI-TV, Rochester, closed the artists' editing program, which had received support from the New York State Council on the Arts.
1981
BITNET (Because It's Time Network) starts as cooperative network at CUNY. Provides email and listserve to distribute info and to transfer files. BITNET adopted the IBM RSCS protocol suite and featured direct leased line connections between participating sites. Most of the original BITNET connections linked IBM mainframes in university data centers. This rapidly changed as protocol implementations became available for other machines. From the beginning, BITNET has been multi-disciplinary in nature with users in all academic areas. It has also provided a number of unique services to its users (e.g., LISTSERV). Today, BITNET and its parallel networks in other parts of the world (e.g., EARN in Europe) have several thousand participating sites. In recent years, BITNET has established a backbone which uses the TCP/IP protocols with RSCS-based applications running above TCP.
1981
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.
1981
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.
1981
Film Forum, New York City, under direction of Karen Cooper, reopens as a multi-plex theater with the first full-time independent feature screen
1981
From the Academy to the Avant Garde, a traveling exhibition produced by Visual Studies Workshop, 1981. Curator Richard Simmons. Catalog introduction Arthur Tsuchiya. Exhibition at VSW December 2-16, 1981 and at the Center for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia January 22-February 8, 1982.Videotapes in order of viewing Howard Fried (Making a Paid Political Announcement), Davidson Gigliotti (Difficult Music), Juan Downey (Through the Looking Glass), Tony Labat (Challenge: P.O.V.), Frank Gillette (Symptomatic Syntax), Les Levine (Visions from the God World, (Part 1))
1981
John Giancola. Director, Media Program, New York State Council on the Arts. 1981-1984
1981
The first National Latino Film and Video Festival, organized by Lillian Jimenez at El Museo del Barrio, New York City
1981
National Video Festival: The State of the Art at The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC. Organized by The American Film Institute. Retrospective of Media Bus, Inc/Lanesville TV; TVTV; DCTV; Ant Farm; Optic Nerve; Videopolis; University Community Video; Global Village; NOVAC; The Kitchen; Long Beach Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; University Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art; WNET/TV Lab. June 3-7, 1981
1981
Osborne Computer introduces Osborne 1 Personal Computer with Z80A CPU and disk drives $1795
1981
Paper Tiger Television, New York City, is established, with New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding for its first season