{"id":2870,"title":"ETC History 2004 - 2005","kind":"etc_page","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2004-2005","version":"c92e9c0453bfeee572ad67cf17956e68342073a08b14a8bd9a67c59598d80e45","modified":"2011-04-13T15:44:39+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":[],"metadata":[],"citations":{"page":"\u0022ETC History 2004 - 2005.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2004-2005.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/2870.ris"},"links":[{"label":"http://www.etcisw.com","url":"http://www.etcisw.com","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":24966},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":697}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"History 2004-2005 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. Devices include custom built equipment by David Jones, Dan Sandin, Nam June Paik, and others; new and vintage analog audio and video processors and synthesizers; Max/MSP and Jitter; sonic and control modules by Doepfer; multiple computers; keyers, switchers, colorizers, and cameras; DVD authoring and editing software; and dozens of other tools. All are connected through a sophisticated patch bay. This rich immersive electronic environment encourages artists to explore boundaries and intersections within narrative, documentary and social issue traditions as well as more experimental forms. This year\u0027s 56 artists represent 8 states, as well as Israel, Canada, Bulgaria and Norway. About 40% are artists from outside New York State. Applicants in 2004-05 included Mara Alper (NY); Phyllis Baldino (NY); Rene Beekman (Bulgaria); Stephan Belovarich (NY); Kjell Bjorgeengen (Norway); Debora Brown (AZ); Jubal Brown (Canada); Torsten Zena Burns (NY); Pablo Caolpinto (PA); Heather Delaney (NY); Hayley Downs (NY); Monica Duncan (KY); Brendan Ford (MA); Madeleine Gallagher and David Barker (NY); Raymond Ghirardo (Ithaca, NY); Pamela Hawkins (Rochester, NY); Kathy High (Averill Park, NY); Sara Hornbacher (Atlanta, GA); Jitter Working Group (NY and PA); Zohar Kfir (Israel); Annie Langan (KY); Kent Lundberg (MA); Mary Magsamen and Stephen Hillerbrand (NY); Darrin Martin (NY); Brian Milbrand and Courtney Grim (NY); Bianca Bob Miller (NY); Nicedisc (NY); Toban Nichols (CA); John Phillips (Philadelphia, PA); Joe Reinsel (MD); Ron Rocco (NY); Luciana Sanz and Amoeba Technology (NY); Frank Shifreen (NY); Gretchen Skogerson (MA); Jim Supanick (NJ); Julia Tell (NY); Julius Vitali (PA); Ann Sargent Wooster (NY); Roger Wyatt (NY); 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 Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Eyebeam, the Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, The Tank, Tonic, Art in General, Anthology Film Archives and Art Brutale and in festivals including the New York Film Festival, the Venice Biennale, Dallas Video Festival, Viper (Basel) and the 8th Annual Dumbo 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 have received numerous awards and citations in festivals around the world. In keeping with our educational objectives, we hosted the 10th Annual International Summer Workshop, a 10 day intensive residency available for graduate and undergraduate academic credit to 16 media makers. The workshop is co-taught by Pamela Susan Hawkins and Hank Rudolph. Please visit http://www.etcisw.com to see the works which are created during this workshop. 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. We helped organize meetings and other symposia including Strengthening Media Arts in NYS, a NE Regional NAMAC Think Tank and assisted organizations to attend the Deep Focus launch in NYC. 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. Since 2001, with requests totaling over one million dollars, artists have received almost $350,000. 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 McCarthy Foundation, Funding Exchange, 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; Abigail Child for By Desire; 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. Projects have been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, Funding Exchange, NVR and the Distribution Fund, Creative Capital, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Jerome Foundation, and National Geographic. For 2004-05 the following artists have received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts: Irit Batsry for Of Set; Abigail Child for By Desire; Norman Cowie for The Dimension in Which It Reigns Supreme with additional support from the Funding Exchange; Jeffrey Lerer for Manuscript Fragments Found at the Gilbert Hotel; Andrea Stake for The Birthday Party; Caspar Stracke for Cinemacity; Jim Supanick for Seed, Sold Back to the Farmer; Erika Yeomans for Pose-Down. Greta Olafsdottir and Susan Muska received support from the McCarthy Foundation for America is Hard to Find. Other sources of support for sponsored projects currently in production has come from ETC Finishing Funds, Women In Film, Wexner Center for the Arts, Funding Exchange and the McCarthy Foundation. Since 1989 the Film and Electronic Arts Grants Program has awarded almost one million dollars to individual artists and arts organizations in the State. Finishing Funds 2005 supported 16 electronic media, sonic art and film projects, encompassing web projects, performances, site-specific installations and interactive works. For 16 years, the program has provided $300,000 to New York State artists, to assist with the completion of diverse and innovative projects which challenge the traditional boundaries of the media. This year we had a record number of applicants with requests totaling over $370,000. Finishing Funds is supported in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and by mediaThe foundation. mediaThe foundation supported 3 special awards for New Media and Intermedia Performance which went to Angie Eng, Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus of LoVid, and Koosil-Ja Hwang. The other Finishing Funds 2005 recipients are Kabir Carter, Abigail Child, Alex Hahn, Eunjung Hwang, Mary Mattingly, Jillian McDonald, Tammy McGovern, Federico Muelas, Laura Parnes, Jennifer Reeves, Jason Van Anden, Jeremy Xido and Adam Zaretsky. This year\u0027s awards recognize work which is very diverse, encompassing web projects, animation, acoustic distribution systems, site-specific installations, public art and interactive performances, and includes experimental documentary and narrative, film performance, robotics and the sonic arts. The works approach such diverse issues as the wireless world, the works of Kathy Acker, modular image synthesizing tools, contemporary values, bisexual identity, the Hudson River Park and organic farming. The works in progress have received recognition and support from other organizations including the New York State Council on the Arts, Harvard University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Jerome Foundation, Villa Croce Museum, Eyebeam Atelier, The Kitchen, Roulette, Harvestworks, Cultural Spanish Consulate and the Austrian Federal Government. This year\u0027s peer review panel was composed of independent media artist and educator Darrin Burns and Buffalo-based new media artist Aaron Miller. 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 150,000 people, with cable and web audiences conservatively estimated at an additional 150,000. In 2005 we provided assistance to 37 sponsoring organizations in 14 counties across New York State. These organizations contributed almost $700,000 toward these media exhibition projects. This year\u0027s recipients included Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, Apexart, Art in General, Art Mission, Bard College, Bowrey Arts and Sciences, Collective Unconscious, Cornell Cinema, Crandall Public Library, Dansology Inc., Diapason Gallery for Sound, Dumbo Arts Center, Evolutionary Girls Club, Filmmakers Cooperative, Fractured Atlas, Hallwalls, Harvestworks, Here Arts Center, Independent Curators, International Film Seminars, Ithaca College, Loisaida Arts, Lower Media Loft, Millennium Film Workshop, Movement Research, New Dance Alliance, Summer School for the Arts, Phoenix Action Network Listen with your Eyes Media Festival, Pratt Institute, Roulette, Saratoga Film Forum, Sephardic House, Squeaky Wheel, Theater for the New City and Visual Studies Workshop. Founded in 1999 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. The mission is to help organizations to address systemic issues within institutions and within the field. Through direct assistance the program supports organizational and professional development, and the building of critical skills which will assure the vitality and longevity of the organization. Another important component of the Technical Assistance Program encourages the media arts community to convene and discuss issues which have bearing on the field\u0027s vitality and longevity. Media Arts Breakfast Meetings and other gatherings Upstate are held on a regular basis to meet and share visions and concerns. This year we convened in Buffalo at CEPA Gallery, in Rochester at the George Eastman House, and in New York City at the Jewish Museum, the Tribeca Film Institute and at Kodak. We are collaborating with American Documentary/POV on Issues of Identity: Mapping the Media Arts in New York State, a multi-focus project which seeks strategies for addressing areas of concern to the media arts. We supported Strengthening the Media Arts in New York State - A Statewide Media Arts Convening and NAMAC Regional Meeting, held in partnership with 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 were 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. 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