{"id":2869,"title":"ETC History 2003 - 2004","kind":"etc_page","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2003-2004","version":"106205d019beffca20709d7d0ffabe4d6188601c66e937e8cad26548c2caf4f0","modified":"2011-04-13T15:44:08+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":[],"metadata":[],"citations":{"page":"\u0022ETC History 2003 - 2004.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2003-2004.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/2869.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":25447}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"History 2003-2004 The Residency Program offers self-directed creative time to mediamakers from throughout the country. Since 1971 we have assisted over 1400 artists in the creation of works using new electronic video, sonic and digital technologies. Each year about 40 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. The image processing system is a hybrid tool set, permitting the artist to create interactive relationships between older historically important analog instruments and new digital technologies, and to explore boundaries and intersections within narrative, documentary and social issue traditions as well as more experimental forms. With grants in 2003 and 2004 from media The foundation, we were able to significantly advance the digital components of the imaging system, incorporating a second G4 computer, other sonic and control modules by Doepfer, interactive software including Max/MSP and Jitter, as well as DVD authoring and editing software. This year\u0027s artists represent 10 states, Israel and Norway. Over one-third are artists from outside New York State. Applicants in 2003-04 included Mara Alper (Ithaca, NY); Kristin Anchor (Baltimore, MD); Sara Ayers (Albany, NY); Christopher Barker (Baltimore, MD); Bebe Beard (Boston, MA); Kjell Bjorgeengen (Norway); Peer Bode (Rochester, NY); Anney Bonney (NY, NY); Debora Brown (Tempe, AZ); Torsten Zena Burns (Brooklyn, NY); Lili Chin (Brooklyn, NY); Joe Diebes (NY, NY); Rebecca Dolan (CO); Maria Dumlao (Brooklyn, NY); Monica Duncan (Louisville, KY); Erica Eaton (Rochester, NY); Scott Fitzgerald (Brooklyn, NY); Raymond Ghirardo (Ithaca, NY); Suzanne Goldenberg (NY, NY); Alex Hahn (NY, NY); Barbara Hammer (New York, NY); Michelle Handelman (Brooklyn, NY); Pamela Hawkins (Rochester, NY); Kathy High (Averill Park, NY); Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus-LoVid (NY, NY); Sara Hornbacher (Atlanta, GA); Jecca (Santa Monica, CA); Zohar Kfir (Israel); Judge Kindel (Williamsville, NY); Meg Knowles (Buffalo, NY); Wago Kreider (Brooklyn, NY); Annie Langan (Louisville, KY); Kristin Lucas (Brooklyn, NY); Mary Magsamen and Stephen Hillerbrand (Brooklyn, NY); Darrin Martin (Alfred Station, NY); Jillian McDonald (Brooklyn, NY); Brian Milbrand (Buffalo, NY); Bianca Bob Miller (NY, NY); Monica Panzarino (NY, NY); John Phillips (Philadelphia, PA); Joanna Raczynska (Buffalo, NY); Jennifer Reeder (Chicago, IL); Joseph Reinsel (Baltimore, MD); Megan Roberts (Ithaca, NY); Ron Rocco (Brooklyn, NY); Lynne Sachs (Brooklyn, NY); Luciana Sanz and Amoeba Technology (NY, NY); Devlin Shea (NY, NY); Suzie Silver (Philadelphia, PA); Alan Sondheim (Brooklyn, NY); Jed Speare (Ayer, MA); Simon Tarr (Trumansburg, NY); Julia Tell (Brooklyn, NY); Termite TV (Buffalo, NY and Philadelphia, PA); Julius Vitali (Emmaus, PA); Josh Weinstein (Brooklyn, NY); Bart Woodstrup and Matt Biederman (Chicago, IL); Walter Wright (N. Chelmsford, MA); Jud Yalkut (Dayton, OH); Neil Zusman (Ithaca, NY). Tapes produced at the Center were again included in exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe and on the Web. Recent exhibition venues have included the Little Theater (Rochester), White Box (NY), Harvestworks (NY), The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (NY), Eyebeam (NY), The Kitchen, Visual Studies Workshop, Art in General, Millennium Film Workshop, Anthology Film Archives and in festivals including the New York Video Festival, the Howl Festival (NYC), Image Out Festival, Mix Festival, the Viper Festival, Dumbo Under the Bridge Annual Festival, and the New York Expo of Short Film Festival. Tapes are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, Filmmakers Coop, Drift Distribution, Facets, Microcinema International, Women Make Movies and many others. Artists working at the Center this year have received awards and recognition from State Arts Councils, the National Endowment for the Arts, and private foundations and won numerous awards and citations in festivals around the world. In keeping with our educational objectives, we hosted the 9th Annual International Residency, a 10 day intensive residency available for academic credit to 18 media makers. The workshop is co-taught by Pamela Susan Hawkins and Hank Rudolph. Several projects which will be developed in the coming year including strengthening the collaborative strategies components and developing effective methods of instruction in Jitter and other complex software for moving image making. We also participate in online salons hosted by NAMAC, empyre and other arts, information and advocacy groups. Through the Media Arts Technical Assistance Program we work with organizations from all regions of New York State to develop the media arts field. The Center serves as a sponsoring organization for artists\u0027 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. In the last 6 years, with requests totaling over one million dollars, artists have received over $400,000. 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; and Kristin Lucas for Supervision. Recent projects have been 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. For 2003-2004 the following artists have received awards: Mara Alper from National Video Resources for distribution of Forgiving the Unforgiveable; Alan Berliner from NYSCA for Wide Awake, a 60-minute, experimental documentary film exploring the frustrations, the struggles and the exasperations of insomnia; Norman Cowie from the Funding Exchange through the Paul Robeson Fund for The Dimension in Which It Reigns Supreme, an experimental documentary; Nick Economos from NYSCA for Book Tick, a new media installation using robotics and open source software; Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo from NYSCA for Rain/Fall an installation using sculptural elements and computer animation; Leah Gilliam from NYSCA for Agenda, which deconstructs NASA\u0027s implementation of the Sojourner Truth mythos and the human propensity to anthropomorphize mechanical objects; Barbara Hammer from NYSCA for Sisters/Resisters/Lovers/Others, a 60-minute documentary telling the story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore; Amy Jenkins from NYSCA for We, Precarious, a multiple channel video installation which describes the circular continuum of life from before birth to death and back again; and Shawn Onsgard from NYSCA for Ghost in the Oat Bin, a hybrid long-wire audio installation and electro-acoustic instrument ensemble that investigates the musical potential of architectural narratives. Other sources of support for these current projects has come from ETC Finishing Funds 2004, Women In Film, Wexner Center for the Arts, Longwood Cyber Residency Program, Bard College Faculty Research Grant, Huddersfield Media Center (UK), FACT (UK), the Center for Contemporary Art (Prague), Yosemite Renaissance, Marywood University, ITVS and the NEA. As works-in-progress, the projects have been exhibited at Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Powering Up/Powering Down (CA), Tapies Foundation (Barcelona, Spain), Columbia University Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Center for Contemporary Art (Prague), Consolidated Works Gallery (Seattle, WA), Marywood University (Scranton, PA), and the Mooste Kulalisstuudio (Estonia). Since 1989 the Film and Electronic Arts Grants Program, has awarded over $850,000 to individual artists and arts organizations in the State. For 15 years, Finishing Funds has provided over $200,000 to New York State artists, to assist with the completion of diverse and innovative projects, and works for the Internet and new media. This year we had a record number of applicants with requests totaling over $400,000. The awards went to artists in four different counties throughout the State, including the upstate communities of Troy and Alfred. Finishing Funds is supported in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. With an award in 2004 from media The foundation, Finishing Funds is supporting three special awards for new media and intermedia performance; the awards went to Darrin Martin, John Roach and Jonathan Zalban. The other Finishing Funds 2004 recipients are Amy and Donna Bassin, Zoe Beloff, Dallas Brennan, Ghen Zando Dennis, Tirtza Even, Kathleen Foster, Roberto Guerra, Barbara Hammer, Lee Krist, Jeffrey Lerer, Cynthia Madansky, Mitch McCabe, Rohi Mirza, Richard Pell, Sanjna Singh and Pia Sawhney, Samuael Topiary, and Gabrielle Weiss. This year\u0027s awards recognize work which is very diverse, encompassing a collaborative video project made in part by young teens in the Arctic, new media and web projects, performances, site specific installations and interactive DVD works, and includes experimental documentary and narrative, hand-processed film, a stereoscopic DVD installation and interactive sonic art. The works address such issues as the place of women in contemporary Turkish society, racial profiling, artists in the French Resistance of WWII, Emma Goldman, binocular vision and binaural hearing, American families of Muslim heritage, African American farmers and the USDA, and the historical legacy of the World Trade Center. The works in progress have received recognition and support from other organizations including the Individual Artists Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, Harvestworks, Downtown Community TV Center, Eastman Fund, San Francisco Foundation, Battle Creek Foundation, Niagara Council on the Arts, Funding Exchange, and Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. This year\u0027s peer review panel was composed of Kathy Brew and Joanna Raczynska. 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, 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. The program supported in-person appearances before about 120,000 people, with cable and web audiences conservatively estimated at an additional 150,000. In 2004 we provided assistance to 60 sponsoring organizations in 16 counties across New York State. These organizations contributed almost $800,000 toward these media projects. This year\u0027s recipients included Abrons Art Center Henry Street Settlement, African Film Festival, Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, Anthology Film Archive, Apexart, Art in General, Art Mission, Bard College, Burchfield-Penny Art Center, Carnegie Art Center, CEPA, Chelsea Art Museum, Children\u0027s Media Project, Collaborative Concepts, Cornell Cinema, Dance Films Ass","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":25447,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}