{"id":4734,"title":"New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1974-75","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1974-75-funding-film-and-media","version":"e94d3dce8bc5c54a67b69ea5ec3f727329e25048ded8d0b9ba7133aab2ef7b7f","modified":"2026-09-13T21:52:08.196844+00:00","credits":[{"role":"Author","name":"New York State Council on the Arts"}],"authorKeys":["New York State Council on the Arts"],"subjects":["Groups"],"metadata":[{"label":"Type","value":"Annual Report","url":null},{"label":"ETC archive","value":"ETC1817","url":null},{"label":"Group dates","value":"1960 -","url":null},{"label":"Group location","value":"New York City","url":null},{"label":"Group","value":"New York State Council on the Arts","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1974-75: Funding for Film and Media.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1974-75-funding-film-and-media.","publication":"New York State Council on the Arts. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1974-75. 1975.","risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/4734.ris"},"links":[{"label":"Scanned document","url":"https://archive.org/details/ETC1817","relationship":"linked document; contents not retrieved","contentType":"application/pdf"}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":29841},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":861}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"New York State Council on the Arts Film, TV/Media, Literature TV/Media Program 1974-75 cover Peter Campus\u0027s Shadow Projection, a video installation at the Kitchen in 1974. Total Funds received NYSCA 1974-75 35,957,900 Expenditures by Program: Grants, Aids and Subsidies Film, TV/Media, Lit 2,871,133 TV/Media In 1974-75 the TV/Media program supported 42 organizations and projects with a total of $1,233,770. The primary emphasis was on making sophisticated video facilities available to artists and organizations. Over half of the program\u0027s funds went toward the general operations of 18 resource centers providing video workshops, technical and production assistance, and equipment loan programs. Three organizations - ZBS Foundation in Fort Edward, Innervision Media Systems of Central New York in Syracuse, and the TV Lab of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation in New York City-received support for artist-in-residence programs, making available opportunities for video and sound work. Two video editing and post-production centers were created for individual artists. Fourteen artists received support, through sponsoring organizations, for the production of experimental video works. Six of the state\u0027s public television stations received funds, three of them for the purchase of time base correctors, which enable programs taped with low-cost video equipment to be adapted for broadcasting. Through the public television stations in Rochester and Syracuse, five local stations-WNED in Buffalo, WXXI in Rochester, WMHT in Schenectady, WCNY in Syracuse, and WNPE in Watertown-received funds to produce, broadcast and radiocast eight one-hour programs featuring upstate performing arts groups. This series, called \u0022New York Performance,\u0022 dramatically expanded the audiences for these organizations. In addition, the TV/Media program supported residencies for media artists, video exhibitions, and general production expenses for video projects. TV/Media assistance in 1974-75 The Arts Center on Holy Names Campus (Albany). Production costs of multimedia exhibition. (Formerly known as the Arts Center on Marylrose Campus.)* $6,500 Cable Arts Foundation (NYC). Operating expenses for creative arts programming for cable television.*$25,000 Collaborations in Art, Science and Technology/CAST(Syracuse). Production expenses. $20,500 Fifi Corday Productions (NYC). Production costs of videotapes by artists and closed-circuit videoworks by Peter Campus. $15,655 Downtown Community Television Center (NYC). Operating expenses for video resource center offering equipment loans, workshops, technical and production assistance to artists and community groups. $29,230 Earthscore Foundation (High Falls). Production costs of videotapes. $36,000 Educational Broadcasting Corporation/WNET-TV,Channel 13 (NYC). Production costs of broadcast series on experimental video and new video works by artists-in-residence; time base corrector for transfer and broadcast of works created for television by artists.* $94,094 Electronic Arts Intermix (NYC). Operating and equipment expenses for artists\u0027 video editing and post-production facility; video artists\u0027 fees; video programming by Frank Gillette; Vasulka Video; Computer Arts Festival; Eleventh Avant-Garde Festival for experimental multimedia art. $66,650 Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse). Production costs of video art exhibitions.* $10,000 Experimental Television Center (Binghamton). Fees for artists-in-residence; operating expenses for video resource center; production costs of workshop/performances by Walter Wright; video research. $57,428 Global Village Video Resource Center (NYC). Operating expenses for workshops; technical and production assistance; production costs of videoworks by John Reilly; video research by Rudi Stern; media workshops by Bud Wirtschafter. $40,500 Haleakala (NYC). Operating and equipment costs of media facility - The Kitchen-for video and multimedia presentations.* $35,975 Henry Street Settlement (NYC). Administrative salaries for video workshops.* $5,000 Innervision Media Systems of Central New York (Fayetteville). Administrative and equipment costs of artist-in-residence experimental video program; training workshops; post-production facility at Newhouse Television Center; production costs of technical development by Carl Geiger; interconnection of cable systems. $67,700 Intermedia Foundation (Garnerville). Administrative expenses for multimedia production and workshop facility; operating, exhibition, and equipment costs of light works by Dermot Harvey. $12,297 Ithaca Video Project. Administrative and operating expenses for media resource center; production costs of multimedia events by Philip Jones. $35,900 The Kitchen see Haleakala. Lake Placid Association for Music, Drama, and Art. Administrative salaries for multimedia workshops.* $7,500 Link, Inc. (Lynbrook). Operating and equipment costs of media equipment resource center for Nassau, Queens, and Suffolk counties. $55,000 Long Island Educational Television Council/WLIW-TV, Channel 21 (Garden City). Production and broadcast costs of experimental video programming; time base corrector. $23,685 Media Bus (Lanesville). Operating and equipment costs of mobile video workshops and media resource center; production costs of experimental television shows; experimental video/radio project. $48,400 Media Study, Inc. (Buffalo). Operating and equipment costs of media resource center.* $40,000 Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Tape rental for \u0022Video-Related\u0022 exhibitions.* $1,500 Mid-Hudson Library System (Poughkeepsie). Additions to experimental videotape collection.* $4,000 Mid-York Library System (Utica). Equipment for producing cable television programs.* $2,000 Mohawk-Hudson Council on Educational Television/WMHT-TV, Channel 17 (Schenectady). Operating expenses for video resource center. $25,000 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYC). Video speakers\u0027 fees, videotape rentals, and technical assistance for the Film and Video Bureau program. For detailed listing of Film and Video Bureau activities, see page 74.* $25,000 New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations (NYC). Equipment costs of video viewing facility at the Donnell Library.* $4,000 Portable Channel (Rochester). Administrative and operating expenses for a media equipment pool; production costs of programs for broadcast. $40,000 Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York/WCNY-TV, Channel 24 (Liverpool). Production costs of television pilot on museums in central New York; production costs of television and radio broadcast series on performing arts in upstate New York, aired through grants to stations in Broome, Monroe, Onondaga, and Schenectady counties.* $58,000 Queens Council on the Arts. Administrative salaries for video workshops.* $2,000 The Raindancc Foundation (NYC). Preparation of the video magazine Radical Software. $10,000 Rochester Area Educational Television Association/WXXI-TV, Channel 21. Operating expenses lor training lab in creative uses of television and portable video technology; production costs of live experimental video event; production costs of television and radio broadcast series on performing arts in upstate New York,aired through grants to stations in Broome, Erie, Jefferson, Monroe, Onondaga, and Schenectady counties.* $78,500 Southern Tier Educational Television Association/WSKC-TV, Channel 4h (Endwell). Production costs of broadcasting arts programming; time base corrector.$28,400 The Elaine Summers Experimental Intermedia Foundation (NYC). Operating and production costs of multimedia works by Elaine Summers and Phil! Niblock: videotapings by Video New York.* $33,815 Survival Arts Media (NYC). Administrative and production costs of multimedia event at the Strasenburgh Planetarium; research in experimental media systems; video workshops in the Jamestown area; study of the computer as a video tool by Louise and Bill Etra.$25,075 The T. P. Tower Playpen (NYC). Operating and equipment costs of video theatre; workshops and video environments; upstate video seminars. $35,000 Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester). Equipment and supplies for media resource center.* $18,106 Whilney Museum of American Art (NYC). Production costs of exhibition on projected video.* $5,560 Women\u0027s Interart Center (NYC). Production costs of women\u0027s video festival; equipment and administrative costs of video and media workshops.* $15,500 Woodstock Community Video. Operating and equipment costs of video resource center; production costs of videotapes and exploration of environmental systems. $34,000 Young Filmakers Foundation (NYC). Equipment for Media Equipment Resource Center (MERC) equipment loan program. For detailed description of MERC\u0027s services, see page 78 .* $36,800 ZB5 Foundation (Ft. Edward). Operating expenses for artist-in-residence program for sound experiments. $18,500 New York State Council on the Arts 1974-75 Film, TV/Media, Literature Peter Bradley, Program Director Film: Barbara Haspiel, Program Associate TV/Media Lydia Silman, Program Associate Total Funds received NYSCA 1974-75 35,957,900 Expenditures by Program: Grants, Aids and Subsidies Arts Service Organizations 3,552,417 Film, TV/Media, Lit 2,871,133 Performing Arts 15,120,594 Special Programs 2,902,207 Visual Arts 9,752,017 Film Program In 1974-75 the Film program supported 80 organizations, as compared to 55 in the previous year. A dramatic increase in funds, from $479,000 to $1,077,172, allowed for substantial increases in the total amount of support most groups received. Film exhibitions comprised the largest single category of support. Thirty-six different groups received aid for showing films. In many cases, film exhibition was only one of several kinds of film activities undertaken by the groups, which varied from the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, sponsors of the annual New York Film Festival. The state\u0027s library systems also received significant support for the long-term leasing of films to expand their 16mm film collections; eleven systems received funds averaging $9,000. In the previous year only two systems were supported by the Council. These films benefit not only thousands of borrower/viewers, but also the filmmakers themselves, who receive royalties from the showings. Direct benefits to filmmakers have always been a primary concern of the Film program; this year funds made possible 10 new productions, six filmmaker residencies, and 17 filmmaking workshops taught by film professionals. The Council also supported 10 organizations that provide film services, benefiting both filmmakers and viewers. The Media Equipment Resource Center (MERC), administered by the Young Filmakers Foundation in New York City, made equipment available to 184 organizations and 284 individual artists from 32 counties. MERC\u0027s success as a free-loan film and video equipment pool and in-house editing and post-production facility led to the creation of a second, the Cinemedia Resource Center in Rochester, administered by White Ox Films. This center is intended to provide Central and Western New York with film resources comparable to those available from MERC downstate and on Long Island. Film assistance in 1974-75 Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts (Blue Mountain Lake). Director\u0027s salary for community film series.*$1,248 Albany Public Library. Administrator-teacher\u0027s salary for film workshop. $6,000The American Federation ol Arts (NYC). Costs of circulating Whitney Museum of American Art\u0027s New American Filmmakers Series. $5,210 Anthology Film Archives see Film Art Fund. Avanza (NYC). Artists\u0027 salaries and materials for film workshop.* $2,000 Brooklyn Academy of Music see St. Felix Street Corporation. Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association/BACA. Salary of part-time film coordinator and operating expenses for film workshops; administrative salaries for film festival. * $10,200 Cable Arts Found","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":29841,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}