{"id":10693,"title":"Experimental Television Center 1971-present","kind":"history_page","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/experimental-television-center-1971-present","version":"01af093ad6ea13a1002bd6cf0a0486b993f75371245db28f9cf0992b9952c4f6","modified":"2023-05-13T10:57:51+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":[],"metadata":[],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Experimental Television Center 1971-present.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2023. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/experimental-television-center-1971-present.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/10693.ris"},"links":[{"label":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"https://web.archive.org/web/20110719162251/http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/groups/gtext.php3?id=35\u0026page=5","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20110719162251/http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/groups/gtext.php3?id=35\u0026page=5","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":53243},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":736}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Experimental Television Center 1971 - present Owego, New York For background and earlier years, see https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history 1990-91 A third Amiga is added to the system, along with the Toaster, to further expand the digital imaging potential of the systems. Artists in residence include Mara Alper, Irit Batsry, Alan Berliner, Laurie Beth Clark, Peter D\u2019Agostino, Tami Gold, Brian Goldfarb, Shalom Gorewitz, Alex Hahn, Philip Mallory Jones, Richard Kostelanetz, Barbara Rosenthal and Ann Wooster. Tapes were exhibited at Exchange of Information, Museum of Modern Art; Time Based Review, Visual Studies Workshop; Third Emerging Expressions Biennial, Bronx Museum; Rome Video Festival; MIX Festival; International Video Days, Turkey; Bonn Videonale; Osnabruck Video Festival; and the Stockholm Video Festival. They were included on Growing Up, The Learning Channel; Independent Focus, WNET; Maybe but Not Necessarily Music, Rochester; and Deep Dish TV. Artists received awards from the Checkerboard Foundation; the NEA; the Grand Prix at the Locarno Video Festival; First Prize for Short Experimental Work at the Athens International Video Festival; and the Jerome Foundation. The Center sponsored projects by Alex Hahn (The Kirchner Itinerary) and Shalom Gorewitz (Roots and Branches). Presentation Funds provides assistance to the Brooklyn Museum (AFI Video Festival), Asian Cinevision (Videoscape: An Asian American Showcase), the Adirondack Cultural Foundation (The Logging Project), Cornell Cinema Presentations by Michael Smith and Carol Ann Klonarides), Dance Theater Workshop Silent Echoes), DCTV (Video History III and the Video Witness Festival), Harvestworks (Presentations by Alvin Lucier, Terese Svoboda, Helen Thorington and Paul DeMarinis), Media Alliance (11th Annual Media Conference), Media Network (keynote address by Marlon Riggs for Immediate Impact conference), and the MIX Festival. Finishing Funds 1991 recipients include Bill and Mary Buchen, Jean de Boysson, Bradley Eros and Jeanne Liotta, Cara Mertes and Ellen Spiro, selected by panelists Shu Lea Cheang, Robert Doyle and Philip Mallory Jones. 1991-1992 Artists in residence include, Irit Batsry, Kjell Bjorgeengen, Jon Burris, Andrew Deutsch, Shalom Gorewitz, Thomas Allan Harris, Pamela Jennings, Cheryl Jackson, Joel Katz, Mary Ann Petit, Trish Rosen and Kate Farrell, Kathleen Ruiz, Michael Schell, William Seery and Maria Venuto, and Ann-Sargent Wooster. Works are screened at the Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art; Wexner Center; CEPA; Asian American Vision at the Brooklyn Museum; the Ostee-Biennale; the Dallas Video Festival; the Black Maria Festival; and the London Film Festival. Work was included in cable or broadcast programs The 90s and Independent Focus. David Blair wins Grand Prize for Wax at the 6th Montbeliard Video Festival. We begin a project to catalog the collection of antique equipment, artists\u2019 videotapes, print materials and audiotapes, using a computerized relational database. The project is inspired by our work for the Ars Electronica Video Pioneers exhibition at Linz, Austria in the Summer of 1992. Dan Reeves receives assistance from NYSCA for Obsessive Becoming and Philip Mallory Jones receives support for First World Order. Finishing Funds 1992 recipients selected by Larry Gottheim, Chris Hill and Pam Jennings include Yau Ching, Abigail Child, Vincent Grenier, Jody LaFond, Lynn Masterson and Jim Supanick, and Brian Springer. Presentation Funds recipients include Art in General (Electric Spaces by Bill and Mary Buchen), DCTV (77HZ performance), Drift Distribution (Flesh Histories, at The Kitchen), Saratoga Public Library (Video on Video series), iEAR Studios (Joseph Celli performance); Media Network (RePackaging Paradise: Media Strategies for a New World, conference); Squeaky Wheel (Second Annual Native American Indigenous People\u2019s Video Festival); Third World Newsreel (Emerging Latin American Film and Video at Hunter College); Women One World Festival; and The Wooster Group (Scopic Drive at The Performance Garage). 1992-1993 Artists in Residence include Charlie Ahearn, Peer Bode, Emily Breer, Laurence Brose, Connie Coleman and Alan Powell, Lara Davis, Shalom Gorewitz, Alex Hahn, Pamela Hawkins, Bianca Bob Miller, Ray Rapp, Van McElwee, Alan Sondheim, Nancy Meli Walker, Walter Wright and Jud Yalkut. The Museum of Modern Art presented three shows, Two Decades, Video Fest Berlin and Between Word and Image, all of which included works produced at the Center. Works were also screened at the MIT Media Lab; the Franklin Institute; the DAAD Galerie in Berlin; The Final Frontier at the New Museum of Contemporary Art; and included in the Bonn Film Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival, the Worldwide Video Festival in the Netherlands, and the Vancouver International Film Festival. Artists received recognition from the Swiss Cultural Council; DAAD Fellowship; Fulbright Scholarship; McDowell Colony; French Ministry of Culture; and the MacArthur Foundation Production Fund. Finishing Funds 1993 recipients selected by Rii Kanzaki and Carlota Schoolman include Kelly Anderson, Maria Beatty, Skip Blumberg, Yau Ching, Johan Grimonprez, Sara Hornbacher, Kit Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lerer, Dean Moss, Richard Povall, Reggie Woolery, Ned Sublette, and Ann-Sargent Wooster. Beginning in 1993 we were able to support film series programming in addition to the exhibition of single-evening media presentations. Presentation Funds recipients include the Adams Art Gallery Film series in Chautauqua County); Alfred University (Tony Conrad Video Works); the Brooklyn Museum (African American Women Behind the Camera, with appearances by Julie Dash and Jacqueline Shearer); CEPA Gallery (Ballet DiGiTal, by Connie Coleman and Alan Powell); Franklin Furnace (The Emerging Performance Artist series); Harvestworks (The Interactive Show at Thread Waxing Space); Roulette (Works by Neil Rolnick and Pat Abt); The Kitchen (STELARC); Third World Newsreel (Drinking From Our Own Wells, curated by Thomas Harris); Squeaky Wheel (Annie Goldson and Visible Women, with works by Chris Hill, Annie Fergerson, Jody LaFond and other Western NY women); Willow Mixed Media (Amiga Artists on the Air, curated by Toby Carey). 1993-1994 Artist in Residence include Alan Berliner, Sandi DuBowski, Annie Fergerson, Shalom Gorewitz, Sara Hornbacher and Robert Natowitz, Tatiana Louriero, Darrin Martin, Andrea Mancuso and Peter D\u2019Auria, and Robert Wyrod. Works were screened at Film/Video Arts; Iterations: The New Image at the International Center of Photography; the Venice Biennale; Montage 93, Rochester; the Knitting Factory; Venice Biennial; and the Osnabruck Media Art Festival. The Center is a member of the Preservation Working Group of Media Alliance, and the National Moving Image Database project of the American Film Institute. Artists received recognition from ZKM, Astraea Foundation, Jerome Foundation and the Mid Atlantic Regional Media Arts Fellowship Program. Finishing Funds 1994 recipients selected by Anne Fergerson and Mona Jimenez include David Blair, Vivek Renjen Bald, Larry Brose, Vincent Grenier, Pamela Susan Hawkins, Carol Kalil, Michael Schell and 77 Hz, Branda Miller and Stephen Vitiello. Organizations receiving exhibition support include the Afrikan Poetry Theatre (Black Women Film Festival); Electronic Arts Intermix (Emerging Women Artists); Experimental Intermedia Foundation (Jerry Hunt concert); Rome Art and Community Center (Film Series); the Matrilineage Symposium at Syracuse University; Squeaky Wheel (Works by John Knecht); OffLine cable series; and Videoteca del Sur (Cuban Media Artists). 1994-1995 Artists in Residence include Veena Cabreros-Sud, Anita Cheng and Ronaldo Kiel, Abigail Child, Lisa DiLillo, Genevieve Hayes, Barbara Hammer, Walid Raad, Dave Ryan, Debra Robinson, Sarah Smiley, and Sui Kang Zhao. Exhibition sites include Exit Art; Art in General; Colgate University; @ Caf\u00E9; the New Museum; Hallwalls; the Black Maria Festival; the 5th International Symposium of Electronic Art in Helsinki; the 8th Annual MIX Festival; the New York Video Festival; the Copenhagen Film Festival; the Atlanta Video Festival; the Bonn Videonale; ISEA, Helsinki; Osnabruck Media Festival. Artists were recognized by the Canada Council, the Lyn Blumenthal Foundation and the New England Film and Video Program. Presentation Funds support went to almost 40 organizations in 22 counties throughout NYS and included Bard College (George Kuchar); City Lore (9th Annual Festival of Folk Cultural Documentaries); Corning Museum of Glass (Film Series); Electronic Arts Intermix (NY International Video Festival); Gallery 53 (Winter Films Series); Ithaca College (Works by Liss Platt, Mona Jimenez, Carl Geiger and Amy Hufnagel); Polish Community Center (Kino Polski III); Women Direct (Works by Barbara Hammer and Not Channel Zero). Finishing Funds recipients selected by Bob Harris and Steina Vasulka include Tom DeWitt, Carl Geiger and Amy Hufnagel, Jody Lafond, Simon Leung, Michelle Lippitt, Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe, Duston Spear, Kristin Tripp, and Cathy Weis. The State Arts Council supported creative projects by Shalom Gorewitz (Now What?), Alex Hahn (On the Nature of Things), and Jeffrey Lerer (Memory Box). Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir received support from the Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation for The Brandon Teena Story. 1995-1996 Artists in Residence include Mara Alper, Kjell Bjorgeengen, Barbara Columbo, Michael Betancourt, Andrew Deutsch, Linda Gibson, Sooz Hewitt, John Knecht, Kristin Lucas, Darrin Martin, Diane Nerwen, Jessie Shefrin, Barbara Sternberg, Virgil Wong, Reynold Weidenaar and Jud Yalkut. Works were exhibited at Momenta Art; the Donnell Media Center; the Not Still Art Festival at the Boswell Museum; the Knitting Factory; Threadwaxing Space; and the Whitney Museum. They were included in the 6th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Montreal; the 15th Annual Small Computers in the Arts Festival; the 4th NY Video Festival; and selected for inclusion in the distribution package Video: The First Decade, curated for Video Data Bank. Work was also included in Set in Motion, a survey of works created with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. Artists received awards from the Black Maria Festival, the NYFA, the Lynn Blumenthal Foundation and the Swiss Arts Foundation. Finishing Funds recipients chosen by panelists Peer Bode and Ken Jacobs include Shawn Atkins, Zoe Beloff, Alan Berliner, Diane Bertolo, Bill and Mary Buchen, Tirtza Even, Jane Greenberg, Bob Harris, John Knecht, Richard Kostelanetz, and Jeanne Liotta. Presentation Funds programming reached over 40,000 people in 28 counties in the State. Presentation Funds support was provided to American Museum of the Moving Image (A Spike Lee Retrospective); Anthology Film Archives (Winter Program of Early Films); Artists Space (The Poool); Cooper Union (Work by Su Friedrich, and Jeff Preiss); Crandall Public Library (Meet the Maker series); Matrilineage Symposium at Syracuse University; OffLine, a nationally distributed cable series; the Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film/Video Festival; and Olean Public Library (Work by Ngozi Onwurah and Four Evenings of Film). The Center continues its sponsorship of The Brandon Teena Story, an experimental documentary by Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir. 1996-97 The Residency Program invited the participation of Gretchen Bender, Daniel Cooney, Terry Cuddy, Lisa DiLillo, Janet Grau, Jolie Guy, Jillian McDonald, Laura Parnes, Joseph Scheer, Liselot vander Heijden, Xiomin Gu, Jed Speare, and Charlie Woodman. Works were exhibited in the American Film Institute Video Festival; the 10th Annual MIX Festival in New York; The Knitting Factory; Do Not Adjust Your Set at Hallwalls; the Biennial and the Lesbian Genders exhibitions at the Whitney Museum; Video on Video series at the Saratoga Springs Public Library; Private TV at the Los Angeles County Museum","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":53243,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}