{"id":4742,"title":"New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1985-86. Reports by Film and Media Programs","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1985-86-report-media-program","version":"9ed73e45732e1126a9cecf214f6e8306437cb64f98e0280e2a764239f42babc3","modified":"2026-09-13T21:52:08.1973361+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":"ETC1766","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 1985-86. Report by Media Program.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1985-86-report-media-program.","publication":"New York State Council on the Arts. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1985-86. Reports by Film and Media Programs. New York State Council on the Arts. 1986.","risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/4742.ris"},"links":[{"label":"Scanned document","url":"https://archive.org/details/ETC1766","relationship":"linked document; contents not retrieved","contentType":"application/pdf"}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":12631},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":704},{"name":"archive_summary","source":"existing ETC archive summaries: ETC1766","generated":false,"characters":122}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Total Aid to Localities: $40,300,000, Media: $1,380,000 (1985-86) MEDIA PROGRAM Director: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson Program Analysts: Eugene Matta, Arthur Tsuchiya Since the New York State Council on the Arts created the Media Program in 1970, it has played a paramount role in the field of video and audio art. During fiscal year 1985/86, the Program renewed its commitment to lead and operated with the following assumptions and objectives: 1) the field is expanding but it is far from being \u0022established\u0022 securely; it is fraught with complex questions including those caused by rapidly developing technology and distribution/marketing problems; 2) it is vital that we seek shared leadership with the field; 3) the program should address the question of balance between support for the larger, established and the smaller, developing organizations; and 4) the Council should assist individual artists, both established and emerging, to create new works. In 1985/86, the Media Program awarded a total of $1,380,000 to 107 organizations for 160 projects, including 40 Production and 3 Media Collaboration awards. Continuing to express the fundamental conviction that production is vital for the field, the Program expended $360,000, 26% of its total allocation, for production of individual artists\u0027 works through sponsoring organizations. The awards ranged from $3,000 to Suzanne Frew to produce a video documentary, \u0022Beneath the Safety Net,\u0022 that deals with the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill in Rochester to a grant of $22,000 to Ed Bowes toward the first episode of an eight-part television series (narrative). A complete list of production awards appears on pages 165-166. The Program continued its support of Exhibition (25% of the total budget); projects designed for Services to the Field, including distribution (18%); Production and Post-Production Services (6%); Artist-in-Residence and Workspace programs (6%). The Program awarded grants to six writers, ranging from $1,000 to $3,500, under the category of Writing on Media Art, which is designed to encourage critical writing on media art. A grant of $3,500 went to Amy Taubin to write a book tentatively entitled, \u0022Mixed Signals: The Noncomplementary Independent and Television.\u0022 Mindful of the assumptions and objectives discussed above, the Program carried out several special projects. In addition to its on-going grant making to minority organizations, projects, and artists, the Program issued a Request for Proposals to address the issue of systematic strengthening of minority participation in the Media Field. As a result, $20,000 was awarded to the joint application from the Film News Now Foundation and the Third World Newsreel for a minority development project. During the fiscal year of 1985/86, the staff did extensive development work upstate through town meetings, site visits and talking with potential applicants. In the process of this work, it became apparent to us that the need to develop equipment access centers upstate, especially \u00BE\u0022 editing systems, was acute. Consequently, the Program combined its efforts for upstate development and equipment projects and provided support for the following new projects: exhibition of audience inter-active electronic arts works, Arnot Museum, Elmira ($2,500); Western New York Videomakers Forum, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts, Buffalo ($1,000); and equipment purchases at Hallwalls, Buffalo ($12,000), Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester ($7,500) and Experimental Television Center, Owego ($5,000). In addition, a new grant of $4,500 was awarded to the Bronx Museum of the Arts to install a VHS video editing system in order to serve students as well as Bronx based artists who come to its NYSCA-supported video workshop. In the context of seeking shared leadership with the field, the Program supported Channel Thirteen\u0027s \u0022New Television I and II.\u0022 This partnership with WNET promises to be a beginning of a new era in that the nation\u0027s major public television station is once again, since the demise of the TV Lab, committing itself to producing and showing independent video works. Another example of advancing shared leadership with the field can be seen in the Council\u0027s support of regrant programs. Regrant is an excellent means of broadening production resources and inviting institutions to make a commitment to helping artists raise funds, because it requires a dollar for dollar match. During 1985-86, the Media Program awarded two grants- one to the Film Fund for $17,500, and one to the Checkerboard Foundation for $12,000. This represents twice the amount of support awarded in this category the previous year. Finally, a grant of $10,000 was awarded to the Whitney Museum to conduct research addressing the questions and issues arising from the new forms of technology and their impact upon the creation, dissemination, and access to various arts disciplines. This project is consistent with the Council\u0027s effort to provide leadership in serving artists and arts organizations. ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE Bronx Museum of the Arts $8,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $1,100 AUDIO ART Harvestworks; Manhattan $18,500 New York Foundation for the Arts; Manhattan $10,000 Parabola Arts Foundation; Manhattan $5,000 Sound Foundation; Manhattan $20,000 AUDIO DOCUMENTARY New Radio and Performing Arts; Brooklyn $7,000 CABLE TV SERIES Alternative Media Information Center; Manhattan $16,000 Haleakala; Manhattan $15,000 EQUIPMENT PURCHASE Bronx Museum of the Arts $4,500 Experimental Television Center; Owego $5,000 Hallwalls; Buffalo $12,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $7,500 Women\u0027s Interart Center; Manhattan $3,000 EXHIBITIONS Alternative Media Information Center; Manhattan $5,720 American Museum of the Moving Image; Queens $7,500 Arnot Art Museum; Elmira $2,500 Artists\u0027 Space; Manhattan $7,500 Artmusic; Brooklyn $7,500 Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA); Buffalo $1,000 Center for New Art Activities; Manhattan $5,000 Channel L Working Group; Manhattan $6,850 Educational Broadcasting Corporation; Manhattan $25,000 Emily Lowe Gallery of Hofstra University; Hempstead $3,000 En Foco; Bronx $4,200 Film Art Fund; Manhattan $13,500 Free Media; Manhattan $4,000 Global Village Resource Center; Manhattan $15,000 Haleakala; Manhattan $26,000 Hallwalls; Buffalo $11,000 Independent Curators; Manhattan $2,000 Institute for Art and Urban Resources; Queens $3,000 Intermedia Foundation; Sparkill $7,000 International Center for Photography; Manhattan $7,000 Media Alliance; Manhattan $7,668 Mid-Hudson Library System; Poughkeepsie $4,000 Museum of Modern Art; Manhattan $18,500 Museum of the American Indian; Manhattan $5,000 New Radio and Performing Arts; Manhattan $2,500 New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; Manhattan $2,000 Public Art Fund; Manhattan $6,000 Raindance Foundation; Manhattan $8,500 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy $2,500 Soho Baroque Opera Company; Manhattan $4,000 Sonic Architecture; Manhattan $4,150 Staten Island Children\u0027s Museum $3,000 Syracuse University $2,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $11,000 White Plains Cable TV Access $3,500 Whitney Museum of American Art; Manhattan $17,000 Women\u0027s Interart Center; Manhattan $6,000 Women\u0027s Studio Workshop; Rosendale $2,100 Women/Artist/Filmakers; Manhattan $3,950 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT Asian Cine-Vision; Manhattan $13,500 Downtown Community Television Center; Manhattan $52,000 Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan $13,000 Experimental Television Center; Owego $31,000 Inter-Media Art Center; Huntington $22,000 Locus Communications; Manhattan $32,500 Media Alliance; Manhattan $20,000 Media Bus; Woodstock $12,500 New Wilderness Foundation; Manhattan $9,000 Portable Channel; Rochester $19,500 MEDIA COLLABORATIONS Foundation for Independent Artists; Manhattan $5,000 Haleakala; Manhattan $5,000 Red Wing Performing Group; Brooklyn $5,000 PRODUCTION/ POST-PRODUCTION SERVICES 185 Nassau Street Corporation; Brooklyn $12,000 Electronic Arts Intermix; Manhattan $7,500 Film/Video Arts; Manhattan $48,000 Harvestworks; Manhattan $2,500 Raindance Foundation; Manhattan $12,000 RADIO SERIES Center for Community Studies; Manhattan $5,025 New Radio and Performing Arts; Brooklyn $6,000 REGRANT PROGRAM Checkerboard Foundation; Manhattan $12,000 Film Fund; Manhattan $17,500 SERVICES TO THE FIELD Alternative Media Information Center; Manhattan $13,000 American Federation of the Arts; Manhattan $8,500 Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library; Jamestown $3,000 Council of Belmont Organizations; Bronx $3,000 Educational Film Library Association; Manhattan $2,000 Electronic Arts Intermix; Manhattan $35,000 Film News Now Foundation; Manhattan $2,500 Film/Video Arts; Manhattan $5,000 Foundation for Independent Video and Film; Manhattan $32,000 Haleakala; Manhattan $42,000 Hallwalls; Buffalo $1,500 Harvestworks; Manhattan $5,000 International Film Seminars; Manhattan $3,000 Library Action Committee of Corona; Queens $4,000 Media Center for Children; Manhattan $1,022 Museum of the American Indian; Manhattan $2,315 New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; Manhattan $12,900 Pacifica Foundation; Manhattan $8,000 Parabola Arts Foundation; Manhattan $10,000 People\u0027s Communication Network; Manhattan $5,000 Port Washington Public Library $22,000 Video Repetorie; Manhattan $5,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $6,000 WSLU-FM; Canton $4,000 Westchester Library System; Elmsford $3,500 Women Make Movies; Manhattan $7,500 SPECIAL PROJECTS Camera News Now; Manhattan $1,000 Film News Now Foundation; Manhattan $20,000 Film/ Video Arts; Manhattan $8,000 Whitney Museum of American Art; Manhattan $10,000 VIDEO ART 185 Nassau Street Corporation; Brooklyn $13,000 Artists\u0027 Space; Manhattan $10,000 Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA); Buffalo $10,000 Electronic Arts Intermix; Manhattan $12,000 Experimental Television Center; Owego $19,000 Film Art Fund; Manhattan $5,000 Film News Now Foundation; Manhattan $10,000 Hallwalls; Buffalo $12,000 Harvestworks; Manhattan $5,000 New Wilderness Foundation; Manhattan $5,000 New York Foundation for the Arts; Manhattan $7,000 Parabola Arts Foundation; Manhattan $15,000 Performing Artservices; Manhattan $13,500 Raindance Foundation; Manhattan $10,000 Rensselaer County Council for the Arts; Troy $5,000 Women Make Movies; Manhattan $5,000 VIDEO DOCUMENTARY Alternative Media Information Center; Manhattan $19,500 Downtown Community Television Center; Manhattan $7,500 Film News Now Foundation; Manhattan $10,000 Now and Then Productions; Brooklyn $12,000 Out There Productions; Manhattan $4,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $3,000 VIDEO NARRATIVE Laboratory for Icon and Idiom; Manhattan $8,000 New York Foundation for the Arts; Manhattan $22,000 WORKSHOPS Global Village Resource Center; Manhattan $7,000 Harvestworks; Manhattan $9,500 Holographic Film Foundation; Manhattan $5,000 Inter-Media Art Center; Huntington $3,000 Museum of Holography; Manhattan $5,000 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy $7,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $6,500 Women\u0027s Interart Center; Manhattan $24,000 WRITING ON MEDIA ART Foundation for Independent Video and Film; Manhattan $7,000 Hallwalls; Buffalo $1,500 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $5,000 Advisory Panelists: Mr. Peer D. Bode, Independent Video Artist; Buffalo Mr. Luis Cancel, Director, Bronx Museum of Art; Bronx Mr. Tony Cokes, Video Artist; Manhattan Mr. Collis Davis, Jr., Independent Documentary Video Maker; Brooklyn Mr. Matthew Geller, Video Artist; Manhattan Ms. Ronnie Geist, Administrator/Producer, Women\u0027s Interart Center; Manhattan Ms. Julie M. Gustafson, Independent Documentary Video Maker, Global Village Video Research Center; Manhattan Ms. Jean Haynes, Film/Video Librarian, Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System; Jamestown Ms. Barbara London, Video Curator, Museum of Modern Art; Manhattan Ms. Rita Myers, Independent Video Artist; Manhattan Mr. Phill N","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":12631,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}