{"id":2867,"title":"ETC History 2001 - 2002","kind":"etc_page","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2001-2002","version":"757bb445d40b2bf6f8e5b914dd24334c03bde1df7b600442bd828c5035eae8ce","modified":"2011-04-13T15:42:39+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":[],"metadata":[],"citations":{"page":"\u0022ETC History 2001 - 2002.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2001-2002.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/2867.ris"},"links":[{"label":"Video History site","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/history-home","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":19422},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":860}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"History 2001-2002 The Residency Program offers self-directed creative time to mediamakers from throughout the country. Since 1971 we have assisted over 1100 artists in the creation of works using new electronic video, audio and computer technologies. Each year from among 80 applicants, about 45 artists are invited to work in the studio, in a retreat-like workshop environment, which offers access to an image processing system, intensive individualized instruction and time for exploration and personal creative growth. This year\u0027s 50 artists represent 11 states, Canada and Switzerland. Over one-third are artists from outside New York State. Residents in 2001-02 included Mara Alper (Ithaca, NY), Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock (NY, NY), Benton Bainbridge (NY, NY), Irit Batsry (NY, NY), Kjell Bjorgeengen (Stabekk, Norway), Peer Bode (Alfred, NY), Anney Bonney (NY, NY), Yael Braha (San Francisco, CA), Torsten Burns (Brooklyn, NY), Graham Collins (Ottawa, Ontario), Tim Dallett (Sackville, New Brunswick), Ghen Zando Dennis (Brooklyn, NY), Hayley Downs (Brooklyn, NY), Nicholas Economos (Alfred Station, NY), Unn Fahlstrom (Oslo, Norway), Nancy Golden (Jersey City, NJ), Pamela Hawkins (Rochester, NY), Janene Higgins (NY, NY), Sara Hornbacher (Atlanta, GA), Jody Lafond (Buffalo, NY), Kristin Lucas (Brooklyn, NY), Darrin Martin (Alfred Station, NY), Rohesia Metcalfe (NY, NY), Bianca Bob Miller (NY, NY), Aaron Miller (Alfred, NY), Chris Musgrave (San Francisco, CA), Tarja Nieminen (Lahti, Finland), Lara Odell (Buffalo, NY), Shawn Onsgard (Binghamton, NY), Blithe Riley (Chicago, IL), Ron Rocco (Brooklyn, NY), Frank Shifreen (NY, NY), Jed Speare (Ayer, MA), Jim Supanick (Brooklyn, NY), Diane Teramana (Kingston, NY), Julius Vitali (Allentown, PA), Reynold Weidenaar (NY, NY), Charles Woodman (Cincinnati, OH), Ann Sargent Wooster (New York, NY), Jud Yalkut (Dayton, OH), Robert York (Clifton Park, NY), Neil Zusman (Newfield, NY) Tapes produced at the Center were again included in exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Artists have been recently included in festivals including Media Art Friesland (Netherlands); Mediaterra (Greece and traveling); Not Still Art Festival (NYC); Three Rivers Film Festival (Pittsburgh); The Culture Project; Darklight Digital Film Festival (Dublin); Digging the Channel/Mediating the Channel, an international cultural exchange exhibition (Croatia). Tapes were shown at such venues as C.U.A.N.D.O., \u201CFrom The Ashes: Artist Reflections on the Recent Tragedy\u201D, a benefit for WTC victims, and featuring the work of over 100 artists; Teachers \u0026 Writers Collaborative (NYC); Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester); MIX at Anthology Film Archive (NYC); \u201CBand of Outsiders\u201D @On Line and on the Web; Gale Gates (Brooklyn); Julia Friedman Gallery (Chicago, IL); Miami University Art Museum (Oxford, Ohio); Gallery at 111 (NJ); Art in General\u0027s \u201C4th Annual Video Marathon\u201D (NYC); \u201CArts and Letters: A Series of Gallery Talks by Working Artists\u201D sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Art in General (NY); MOMA: Video Viewpoints; Centre Pompidou in Paris and on the web; DIGITAL H@PPY HOUR @ The Kitchen- \u201CElectronic Arts Intermix in 2002: 30\u002B Years of Media Art\u201D. Tapes are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, Filmmakers Coop, Drift Distribution, Facets, Women Make Movies and many others. Artists working at the Center this year have received awards and recognition from the Ohio Arts Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, Canada Council and won numerous awards and citations in festivals around the world. In keeping with our educational objectives, we hosted the 7th Annual International Student Residency, a 10 day intensive residency available for academic credit to 18 graduate and undergraduate students. The workshop is co-taught by Pamela Susan Hawkins and Hank Rudolph. We also presented workshops for the Department of Art and Art History University of Rochester and the Department of Art and Design, Alfred University. We were invited to participate as a panelist in \u201CMedia Preservation\u201D, a four-week on-line salon organized by NAMAC. We were invited to contribute several articles for \u201CThe Squealer\u201D, a publication of Squeaky Wheel, concerning media preservation. The Center serves as a sponsoring organization for artists\u2019 projects in the electronic and film arts, providing support services, assistance with development and fiscal and administrative management services. We sponsor about 20 projects each year. Completed projects have received worldwide exhibition and distribution. In the last 5 years, with requests totaling over one million dollars, artists have received over $300,000. Completed projects have received worldwide exhibition and distribution, and have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYS Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, ITVS, Astraea Foundation, Soros Documentary Fund, Chase Manhattan and many others. Recent participants include Irit Batsry, winner of the prestigious Bucksbaum Award for Neither There Nor Here, with a world premiere at the International Film Festival, Rotterdam and inclusion in the Whitney Biennial 2002; Alan Berliner for The Sweetest Sound, featured on POV; David Blair for The Telepathic Motion Picture of the Lost Tribe; Slawomir Grunberg for the Emmy-award winning documentary School Prayer: A Community Divided; Barbara Hammer for Culture Doctor, The Female Closet, and her new work Resisting Paradise; Ken Jacobs for NY Ghetto Fishmarket, 1903; Kristin Lucas for The Electric Donut; Susan Muska for The Brandon Teena Story; Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir for Women and Genocide; Joseph Scheer for Night Flyers; Peer Bode, Joseph Scheer and Jessie Shefrin for Time Shifts: A Visual Narrative. For the present year the following artists have received awards. This year\u0027s projects were supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, Creative Capital, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Jerome Foundation, and National Geographic. Barbara Hammer for Resisting Paradise, a 16mm film documentary contrasting the lives of three women French Resistance Fighters from a small fishing village in Provence, with the lives of the famous painters Matisse, Bonnard, Derain who were also working during the last two years of the Vichy occupation. The work asks questions about art during political crises. Jeffrey Lerer for Manuscript Fragments Found at the Gilbert Hotel, a 3D computer animated surreal black comedy taking place at a single room occupancy hotel circa 1959, premiering on Reel TV. Ken Jacobs for N.Y. Ghetto Fishmarket 1903, The original one minute pan is expanded to 80 minutes during which time unique visual phenomena is generated by Jacob\u0027s Nervous System projection technique. Kristin Lucas for Supervision, an experimental video and installation which constructs her personal visions of the future. Visions of future as presented through mass media and adopted by the populous have shaped perceptions of reality, inspired hope and optimism about the future, and fueled the capitalist drive to conquer the unknown regardless of the consequences of our actions. Joseph Scheer for Night Flyers. Night Flyers is a new technology installation that will be comprised of video projection from DVDs, triggered sound pieces and high resolution, large format digital prints. The work explores the inherent basis of the human need for nature, called biophilia by EO Wilson. Since 1989 the Film and Electronic Arts Grants Program, has awarded over $750,000 to individual artists and arts organizations in the State. Presentation Funds provides support to New York State organizations for in-person appearances by film and media artists. The program brings innovative cinema programming, including independent film and media art created with new technologies, as well as audio installation works to new audiences and to underserved communities in all regions of the State. In addition, the program assists organizations which serve special constituencies and encourages the development of new presentation venues throughout the State. In 2001-2002 Presentation Funds supported in-person appearances before 17,300 people in 13 counties throughout the State. The 41 sponsoring organizations contributed over $450,000 toward these media projects, and included Art in General, Art Mission, Azure Mountain Friends, Bard College, Barnstormers, Chashama, Chatham Film Club, Cooper Union, Cornell Cinema, Dance Films Association, Downtown Community TV, Film-Makers\u0027 Cooperative, Film/Video Arts, Franklin Furnace, Hallwalls, Ithaca College, Loisaida Arts, Millennium Film Workshop, N. Westchester Center for the Arts, Not Still Art, NY Expo, NY Foundation for the Arts, NYS Summer School for the Arts, Ocularis at Galapagos Art Space, Perimeter Media \u002B Culture Projects, Projectile Arts, Riverside Church, Rockland Center for the Arts, Rotunda Gallery, Roulette, Saratoga Springs Public Library, Sephardic House, Squeaky Wheel, Standby Program, The Kitchen, The Media Foundation, Theater for the New City, Third World Newsreel, Thundergulch, Video Lounge, Visual Studies Workshop, Youth Media Arts Program. Now in its 13th year, Finishing Funds program has provided over $165,000 in support of New York State artists, to assist with the completion of diverse and innovative moving image and sonic works. Finishing Funds 2002 supported 16 electronic media and film projects by artists from all regions of the State. This year\u0027s awards recognize work which is very diverse, encompassing web projects, performances, site-specific installations and interactive works, and includes experimental documentary and narrative, stereoscopic projections, hand-processed films and sonic arts presented on the Internet, CD, DVD and LP. The works addresses such issues as September 11th, magic lantern shows of the late 18th century, robotics, communications technology, the 19th century cultural forces that contributed to the rapid transformation of the Western US and the railroads, and global activists who deliver a lecture to a group of high-powered lawyers, who believe they are listening to the World Trade Organization. The works have received additional support from the Smackmellon Residency Program, the New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, the Harvestworks Van Lier Grant program, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Creative Capital Foundation, as well as corporations and individuals. Exhibitions are planned for the Whitney Museum, the Basel Art Fair, New York Digital Salon, Maxis Sound and Experimental Music Festival (UK), the International Computer Music Conference, and the Flaherty Seminar. Artists include Leesa and Nicole Abahuni, Zoe Beloff, Torsten Burns, Abigail Child and Benton Bainbridge, Norman Cowie, Raul Vincent Enriquez, Stacey Lancaster, Julia Loktev, Craig Renaud, Kathleen Ruiz, Taketo Shimada, Scott Smallwood, Mark Street, Mary Ellen Strom, Ray Sweeten and the Yes Men. This year\u0027s peer review panel was composed of independent media artists and educators Ariana Gerstein and Kathy High. The Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund is designed to help non-profit media arts programs in New York State stabilize, strengthen or restructure their media arts organizational capacity, services and activities. This year we provided about $50,000 in support of 18 organizations which included the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Arts Engine, Children\u0027s Media Project, Cinema Arts Center, Dumbo Arts Center, Electronic Arts Intermix, Experimental Television Center Ltd., Fales Library, Global Action Project, Havana Film Festival, Independent Media Arts Preservation, International Film Seminars, Media Alliance, Millennium Film Workshop, National Museum of the American Indian, Squeaky Wheel, Working Waterfront Association and fieldwide assistance projects. In addition","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":19422,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}