{"id":4738,"title":"New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1981-82. Reports by Film and Media Programs","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1981-82-report-media-program","version":"a990aacba11a271298fde8e1e56d21a4b7f2efa8a30edde98eaaa09828648f2e","modified":"2026-09-13T21:52:08.1970966+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":"Publisher","value":"New York State Council on the Arts","url":null},{"label":"Place","value":"New York, NY","url":null},{"label":"Type","value":"Annual Report","url":null},{"label":"ETC archive","value":"ETC1762","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 1981-82. Report by Media Program.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1981-82-report-media-program.","publication":"New York State Council on the Arts. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1981-82. Reports by Film and Media Programs. New York State Council on the Arts. 1982.","risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/4738.ris"},"links":[{"label":"Scanned document","url":"https://archive.org/details/ETC1762","relationship":"linked document; contents not retrieved","contentType":"application/pdf"}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":7108},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":849},{"name":"archive_summary","source":"existing ETC archive summaries: ETC1762","generated":false,"characters":122}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Total Local Assistance Awards: $32,457,400 Media: $1,176,500 MEDIA PROGRAM Director: John Giancola Program Analyst: Arthur Tsuchiya The Media Program\u0027s primary concern is the continued development of this new and evolving art form. The Media Program provides services to professional media artists and the general public through its support of programs that make the creation, exhibition and programming of audio and video projects possible and increase public awareness about the medium. In 1981-82, the program\u0027s allocation of $1,306,300 (including $130,000 in NEA funds) was awarded to 63 organizations for a variety of media programs and services. Because of the nature of the art form and its broadcast capabilities, these media programs and services were accessible to and reached citizens throughout the State. Over 20% of the program\u0027s budget or $256,723 was directed toward production and post-production of audio and video art, documentary and narrative projects. These awards were directed toward the support of individual artists through the sponsorship of co-producing nonprofit organizations. Representative of productions funded by the Council were Portraits by Joan Logue, twenty-eight 60-second video portrait spots of contemporary artists; Vacuums, an electronic image-processed video piece by artist Gary Hill; and Gold Mountain Dream by Peter Chow, a series of dramatic programs on the new Asian immigrant experience. Another approximate 20% or $246,895 of the program\u0027s budget was directed towards artist-in-residence facilities and regranting facilities. These funds allowed organizations across the State to offer low-cost access to equipment and funds to media artists to create or complete media works. Highly sophisticated and specialized technical equipment for computer editing, colorizing, keying, and synthesizing, for example, could be used by media artists who needed those particular resources at a particular point of production. Regrant funds allowed artists to purchase the materials necessary to the creation of their art and literally bought them time to produce it. These categories of funding provided substantial support to the individual artist. Other areas of support served to increase exposure of the art form and completed individual works. Exhibitions, for example, remained an important concern of the Media Program and received support for administrative expenses and artists\u0027 fees and installation costs. Thirty-six exhibition sites including museums, libraries, alternative spaces, media centers, and nonprofit broadcasting companies received support for numerous exhibitions, broadcasts, and cablecasts. The first retrospective exhibition of a major, living video artist-- Nam June Paik-- was presented at a leading New York City museum in 1981-82. This accomplishment alone was a healthy indicator of the acceptance of video art into the \u0022mainstream\u0027 of the art establishment and represented the continued efforts made by the Council\u0027s Media Program in this area. Other projects that continued to receive support through the Media Program included cable television programming, arts programming for television, media center programs including workshops, and a range of services to the field including distribution mechanisms and information networks. ABC No Rio; New York City $900 Amigos del Museo del Barrio; New York City $4,950 Artists Television Network; New York City $12,500 Artmusic; Brooklyn $2,000 Asian Cine-Vision; New York City $13,500 Bronx Museum of the Arts $4,000 Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association $5,000 Budapest-New York Theatre Arts Foundation; New York City $2,000 Center for Community Studies; New York City $6,000 Center for New Art Activities; New York City $2,000 Channel L Working Group; New York City $4,000 Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System; Jamestown $3,500 Collaborative Projects; New York City $4,000 Creative Music Foundation; Woodstock $2,000 Debra Zaikind Dance Foundation; Queens $5,000 Downtown Community Television Center; New York City $46,000 Educational Broadcasting Corporation; New York City $92,500 Educational Film Library Association; New York City $3,270 Electronic Arts Intermix; New York City $37,620 Electronic Body Arts; Albany $5,100 Ethnic Folk Arts Center; New York City $12,000 Experimental Intermedia Foundation; New York City $14,500 Experimental Television Center; Owego $63,532 Film Art Fund; New York City $25,850 Film Workshops of Westchester; Irvington $4,819 Foundation for Independent Video and Film; New York City $30,000 Free Media; New York City $3,100 G.A.M.E. (Growth Through Art and Museum Experience); New York City $4,500 Global Village Video Resource Center; New York City $19,000 Haleakala; New York City $145,700 Hallwalls; Buffalo $4,000 Harvest-works; New York City $5,000 Holographic Film Foundation; New York City $20,000 Hudson River Museum at Yonkers $5,000 Independent Cinema Artists and Producers; New York City $7,000 Institute for Art and Urban Resources; New York City, Queens $3,000 Institute of New Cinema Artists; New York City $5,500 Inter-Media Art Center; Bayville $23,500 Ithaca Video Project $42,140 Kineholistics Foundation; New York City $7,500 L\u0027Ensemble de la Musique; Cambridge $2,500 Locus Communications; New York City $25,097 Media Alliance; Buffalo $20,000 Media Bus; Woodstock $30,000 Media Study; Buffalo $77,305 Mid-Hudson Library System; Poughkeepsie $5,175 Museum of Holography; New York City $5,000 Museum of Modern Art; New York City $12,000 National Academy of Design; New York City $50,000 New Wilderness Foundation; New York City $12,000 New York Public Library; Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; New York City $11,560 Northeast New York Educational Television; Plattsburgh $5,000 Pacifica Foundation; New York City $20,000 Performing Artservices; New York City $4,000 Pick Up Performance Company; New York City $50,000 Port Washington Public Library $14,300 Portable Channel; Rochester $33,237 Radio Foundation; New York City $45,500 Sisters of the Good Shepherd; Brooklyn $5,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $28,000 Whitney Museum of American Art; New York City $38,700 Women\u0027s Interart Center; New York City $20,000 Young Filmakers Foundation; New York City $60,500 Young Men\u0027s Association for Mutual Improvement; Albany $1,250 ZBS Foundation; Ft. Edward $28,895 Advisory Panelists: Mary Byrne, Executive Director, Visualscope TV; New York City Lynn Corcoran, Independent Video Producer; Buffalo Juan Downey, Independent Video Producer; New York City Shalom Gorewitz, Video Artist; New York City Joan Lapp, Independent TV Arts Producer; Schenectady Daniel Mack, Professor, Media Studies Program, New School for Social Research; New York City Sherry Miller, Co-Director, Experimental Television Center; Newark Valley John Minkowsky, Electronic Arts Curator, Media Study; Buffalo Marquita Pool, Associate Producer, CBS Evening News; New York City Gregory Shifrin, Independent Radio Producer, Director, ZBS Foundation; Fort Edward George Stoney, Professor, Department of Film and Television, New York University; New York City","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":7108,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}