{"id":2872,"title":"ETC History 2006 - 2007","kind":"etc_page","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2006-2007","version":"994b19dd46201fab1dea3c5160ad97685159539e1745850f8bccc131bde1f366","modified":"2011-04-13T15:45:36+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":[],"metadata":[],"citations":{"page":"\u0022ETC History 2006 - 2007.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/etc-history-2006-2007.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/2872.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":27061},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":909}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"History 2006-2007 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, offering in a retreat-like workshop environment, access to an image processing system, intensive individualized instruction and time for exploration and personal creative growth. The system is a hybrid tool set, encouraging artists to create interactive relationships between older historically important analog instruments and new digital technologies, and to explore boundaries and intersections within narrative, documentary and experimental forms. With assistance from mediaThe foundation, we have been able to significantly advance the digital components of the imaging system, incorporating a quad G5 along with 2 G4s, other sonic and control modules by Doepfer, interactive software including Max/MSP, Jitter and Pluggo as well as DVD authoring and editing software. This year\u0027s 49 artists represent 9 states, as well as Israel, Norway, Canada and the UK. About 36% are artists from outside New York State and about 25% live in Upstate NY\u0027s more rural communities. Applicants this year included 99 Hooker (NY); Mara Alper (NY); Nurit Bar-shai (NY); Matt Biederman (Canada); Kjell Bjorgeengen (Norway); Peer Bode (NY); Tammy Renee Brackett (NY); Debora Brown (MO); Yvonne Buchanan (NY); Carrie Dashow (NY); Andrew Demirjian (NJ); Carola Dreidemie (FL); Monica Duncan (GA); Nic Economous (NY); Brendan Ford (MA); Madeleine Gallagher (NY); Jaclyn Genga (MA); Raymond Ghirardo and Megan Roberts (NY); Nick Hallett (NY); Pamela Hawkins (NY); Kelly Jacobson (NY); Zohar Kfir (Israel); Wojciech Kosma (United Kingdom); Richard Kostelanetz and Matt Underwood (NY); Justin Lincoln (VA); Jason Livingston (NY); Cleoni Manoussakis (NY); Craig Marsden (NY); Kristin Marx (NY); Aaron Miller (MA); Bianca Miller (NY); Branda Miller (NY); Marisa Olson (NY); Rebekkah Palov (MD); Jackie Passmore (UK); John Phillips (PA); Mike Rosenthal (NY); Liz Rodda (MA); Joshua Rosenstock (MA); Luciana Sanz and Amoeba Technology (NY); Jennifer Schmidt (NY); Ray Sweeten (NY); Matt Underwood (NY); Lisellot van der Heijden (NY); Charles Woodman (OH); Roger Wyatt (NY); Necole Zayatz (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 Eyebeam, the Corcoran, Art in General, the Museum of Modern Art, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Bushwick Art Project, Momenta Art, Rochester Contemporary, Monkeytown, Axiom Gallery (Boston), Nexus Gallery (Philadelphia), Anthology Film Archives, Kunstmuseum Solothurn (Switzerland), Reuten Gallery (Holland) and Carnegie Art Center. They have been selected for inclusion in festivals including the Scope Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, the VideoEx Festival (Zurich), Viper (Basel), Valencia International Film Festival (Spain), the Jerusalem Film Festival, Listen with your Eyes Festival and the 10th Annual Dumbo Festival (Brooklyn). 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. Focused on our commitment to education, 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 the New York State NYS Exhibition Symposium hosted by Colgate University in Spring 2007. The convening is the result of more than 20 years of formal and informal networking among New York State programmers, and discussed the current state of programming and exhibition as it is evolving in the light of new technologies. Discussion also centered around practical ways in which emerging curators and programmers can be encouraged. 2006-07 also marked the formation of the Hudson Valley Programmers\u0027 Group. The Center also serves on a working committee along with representatives of American Documentary/POV on Issues of Identity: Mapping the Media Arts in New York State, a comprehensive and interactive portal website for media arts in the State. Also through Technical Assistance ETC assisted organizations to attend the several conferences and festivals including the AMIA Annual Conference, International Documentary Film Festival, the Flaherty Film Seminar and the National Conference on Media Reform among others. 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 2006-07 we helped artists to raise over $100,000 in support of independent media projects. Completed projects have seen 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 and for Wide Awake; 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 2006-07 the following artists have received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts. Skip Blumberg for Lessons From a Video Master, a video variety show mixes short advice, aphorisms and inspirations that Nam June Paik passed on to more than 65 video artists, curators and acolytes; Peer Bode for History Electronic, a personal and cultural view of the crossings of electronic music and television; Carrie Dashow for Society for a Subliminal State, a performative tour from the Hudson to the Erie Canal; Barbara Hammer for The Diving Women of Jenju-do, a look at a endangered tradition of ocean diving without breathing apparatus by women in the 60s; Jeffrey Lerer for Luck Was His Middle Name, a portion of Manuscript Fragments Found at the Gilbert Hotel, a 3-D computer animated close-up of life in this hotel of the absurd; Aaron Miller for Terminus, an interactive multimedia performance; Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo for Image Stream, an installation of imaginary landscape; Paul Rowley for Uisce Marbh (Dead Water), an experimental documentary made through collaborative workshops with the new residents of Mosney, a former holiday camp in Ireland and now home to immigrant asylum seekers from all corners of the globe; Luciana Sanz for Etcetera, an audiovisual remix of 35 years of video history; Caspar Stracke for Architecture of Piracy, an experimental documentary on replica architecture as a cross-cultural vehicle juxtaposing monumental buildings and their copies, transposed into different continents and cultures. Since 1989 the Film and Electronic Arts Grants Program has awarded one million dollars to individual artists and arts organizations in the State. Finishing Funds 2007 supported 17 new media, film and sonic art, web projects, performances, site-specific installations and interactive projects. This year\u0027s requests totaled almost $500,000. Finishing Funds is supported in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and by mediaThe foundation. For 18 years, the program has provided funds directly 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\u0027s awards recognize work which is very diverse, encompassing web projects, animation, generative systems, stereoscopic projection, public art and performances, and include experimental, documentary and narrative cinema and the sonic arts. The works approach a wide variety of topics including issues of war and democracy, contemporary states of panic, language and memory, and the legend of a prostitute in Troy at the end of the Victorian era. The works in progress have received recognition and support from other organizations including the New York State Council on the Art, LMCC Swing Space, Lab HD, Art for Change, New York State Music Fund, the Tank, iEar Studios and Akademie Schloss Solitude. Two awards for new media and intermedia performance supported by mediaThe foundation were made to Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus of LoVid for Gauge Transformation and Chiaki Watanabe for mux. The other recipients are Zoe Beloff for History of a Fixed Idea and a Modern Case of Possession: a psychopathological musical in two parts; Greg Berger for The Gringomobile Diaries; Carrie Dashow for The Subliminal History of New York State; Joe Diebes for Scherzo; Mariam Ghani for Fugitive Refrains; Kelly Jacobson for The Origin of Mouthstones (Part Two); Hey-Yeun Jang for Picture Day: Flip Side; Annmarie Lanesey and Penny Lane for Sitting on a Million; Shawn Lawson for The Death of Sardanapalus; Jason Livingston for Life in a Tiny Town; Cat Mazza for Stitch for Senate; Morgan Miller for One Day in the Life of a Professional Anarchist; Adi Shniderman and Merav Ezer for Body Bug; Ricardo Miranda Zuniga for The War that Our Children Will Learn to Live With; Marina Zurkow for Boom! Darling. This year\u0027s peer review panel was composed of Monteith McCollum of Barton and Marisa Olson of New York. Monteith McCollum is an independent artist /filmmaker whose films Hybrid and Lawn have won awards and screened in theaters and on public television screens internationally. He makes music for his and wife Ariana\u0027s films with saws, violins, and anything else found around his barn in upstate New York. During the least hospitable weather and times of day, he can be found wondering about the landscape with a hand-cranked Bolex. Marisa Olson is an artist and Editor \u0026 Curator at Rhizome. Her own work was recently presented by the Whitney Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pacific Film Archive, and the NY and Chicago Underground Film Festivals. She has curated exhibits and programs at the Guggenheim Museum, SFMOMA, the Getty, Artists Space, White Columns, and elsewhere. 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. In 2006-07 we provided assistance to 59 sponsoring organizations in 22 counties across New York State, assisting with appearances reaching audiences of over 100,000 people; cable and web audiences are conservatively estimated at an additiona","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":27061,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}