{"id":4743,"title":"New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1986-87. Reports by Film and Media Programs","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1986-87-report-media-program","version":"120fc667558311305d0f3238f2c5376192783ee664fb5ecd5baee9a0cebb1634","modified":"2026-09-13T21:52:08.1974023+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":"ETC1767","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 1986-87. Report by Media Program.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/new-york-state-council-arts-annual-report-1986-87-report-media-program.","publication":"New York State Council on the Arts. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1986-87. Reports by Film and Media Programs. New York State Council on the Arts. 1987.","risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/4743.ris"},"links":[{"label":"Scanned document","url":"https://archive.org/details/ETC1767","relationship":"linked document; contents not retrieved","contentType":"application/pdf"}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":10926},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":912},{"name":"archive_summary","source":"existing ETC archive summaries: ETC1767","generated":false,"characters":122}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Total Aid to Localities: $44,300,000, Media: $1,512,129 (1986-87) MEDIA PROGRAM Director: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson Program Analysts: Eugene Matta (until July 1986), Jerry Lindahl, Arthur Tsuchiya The Media Program entered fiscal year 1986-87, not so much with different objectives and assumptions from the previous year, but rather with the goal of improving upon earlier efforts. The program advanced production and audience development as priorities with the following assumptions and objectives: 1) the field is expanding but it is far from being established securely--it is fraught with complex questions including those caused by rapidly developing technology as well as distribution and marketing problems; 2) it is vital that we seek shared leadership with the field; 3) it is important to maintain the balance between support for the larger, established and the smaller, developing organizations; and 4) individual artists, both established and emerging, should continue to be assisted to create new works. As the program renewed its commitment to assume a leadership role in the media field and to evaluate its role, applicants were invited to conceive and review their own projects in conjunction with their assessments of the field including its accomplishments, failures and needs as well as future direction. The program stressed the importance of demonstrating a clear aesthetic and conceptual grasp of video and audio as art; of going beyond addressing needs to the question of artistic quality/standards; and of showing sensitive and imaginative ways of developing audiences, always mindful of social and cultural diversity. In response to ever-increasing needs and demands of the field, and in light of the budgetary constraints, the Program conducted a more comparative review of applications than before. In 1986-87, the Media Program awarded a total of $1,512,129 to 87 organizations for 150 projects, including 31 production awards administered by the Individual Artists Program. Reflecting our strong conviction that production is vital for the development of the field, the Program expended $400,129, a little over 26% of its total allocation, for production of individual artists\u0027 works through sponsoring organizations. See the Individual Artists Program for a listing of media artists and projects. In addition, regrant awards increased from $29,000 in 1985-86 to $54,000 last year with two new programs in Manhattan and two upstate, adding over $100,000 to the independent production pool in New York State. Every regrant program must be matched dollar for dollar. The Program continued its support of exhibitions (about 21% of the total budget); projects designed for services to the field, including distribution (17%); general operating expenses (15%); equipment and workspace access, including production and post-production services and equipment purchase (10 %); special projects (4 %); and artists-in-residence (3 %). Finally, the Program awarded grants to four writers, ranging from $1,500 to $3,500, under the \u0022Writing On Media Art\u0022 category which is designed to encourage critical writing. In advancing audience development, the Program stressed the importance of cultural and aesthetic diversity in American society, upstate development, and experimental as well as major projects. Squeaky Wheel, a new association of Buffalo area media makers, received a grant of $2,000 to present an exhibition entitled \u0022Narrowcasting: Native American and Eastern European Video.\u0022 The Program supported \u0022Democracy in Communication,\u0022 ($10,000) a travelling exhibition of independent video and film produced recently in Central and South America, and curated by New York independent producer, Karen Ranucci. The Program awarded $25,000 to the Museum of Modern Art toward an exhibition, \u0022From Day to Night: Installations and Videotapes by Bill Viola.\u0022 As the second major retrospective of an individual video artist after that of Nam June Paik at the Whitney Museum in 1982, the show marks a significant event in the field. If the Program considers the individual artists vital for the development of the field, it also recognizes the importance of assisting organizations that present media activities and support artists. The Program made special grants to organizations that are at a critical juncture in their development and needed one-time assistance. A grant of $11,000 went to the Global Village, a fifteen year old, pioneering media center, to help institutionalize development as an on-going, high priority activity. Another grant of $10,000 went to Squeaky Wheel in Buffalo to help strengthen its administrative structure. Finally, an award of $8,000 was made to be matched dollar for dollar to the newly organized Association of Independents in Radio (AIR). ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE Art Awareness; Lexington $3,000 Bronx Museum of the Arts $5,000 Global Village Resource Center; Manhattan $7,000 Emily Lowe Gallery/ Hofstra University; Hempstead $7,600 Library Action Committee of Corona-East Elmhurst/ Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center; Queens $4,000 St. Augustine\u0027s Center; Buffalo $7,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $2,500 WNYC Foundation; Manhattan $8,000 EQUIPMENT PURCHASE Catskill Center for Photography; Woodstock $1,000 Center for Community Studies; Manhattan $4,600 Experimental Television Center; Owego $3,855 Hallwalls; Buffalo $14,500 Queens Council on the Arts $4,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $6,000 EXHIBITION Altermedia; Staten Island $2,000 Alternative Media Information Center; Manhattan $4,000 American Museum of the Moving Image; Queens $9,200 Artists Space; Manhattan $8,000 Artmusic; Brooklyn $7,500 Barnard College; Manhattan $1,850 Black Filmmaker Foundation; Manhattan $4,000 Black Maria $3,000 Bronx Museum of the Arts $10,000 Catskill Center for Photography; Woodstock $2,500 Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA); Buffalo $4,842 Center for New Art Activities; Manhattan $5,000 Channel L Working Group; Manhattan $7,000 Council on the Arts for Cortland $5,000 Educational Broadcasting Corporation; Manhattan $25,000 Exit Art; Manhattan $3,000 Franklin Furnace Archive; Manhattan $2,500 Friends of the Davis Center; Manhattan $6,000 Global Village Resource Center; Manhattan $15,000 Haleakala/ The Kitchen; Manhattan $34,000 Hallwalls; Buffalo $11,000 Institute for Art and Urban Resources/PS 1; Queens $8,000 International Center for Photography; Manhattan $9,000 Katonah Gallery $3,500 Mid-Hudson Library System; Poughkeepsie $4,000 Museum of Broadcasting; Manhattan $4,000 Museum of Modern Art; Manhattan $33,500 New Radio and Performing Arts; Brooklyn $9,000 New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; Manhattan $2,860 Olean Public Library $2,962 Raindance Foundation; Manhattan $11,800 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy $3,000 Squeaky Wheel; Buffalo $2,000 Syracuse University $3,000 United Block Association; Manhattan $1,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $11,000 White Plains Cable TV Access $3,500 Whitney Museum of American Art; Manhattan $18,000 Women Make Movies; Manhattan $10,000 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT Asian Cine-Vision; Manhattan $16,300 Downtown Community Television Center; Manhattan $55,100 Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan $13,000 Experimental Television Center; Owego $32,800 Harvestworks; Manhattan $20,000 Inter-Media Art Center; Huntington $20,000 Locus Communications; Manhattan $34,400 Media Alliance; Manhattan $24,000 Media Bus; Woodstock $10,000 PRODUCTION/ POSTPRODUCTION SERVICES Electronic Alts Intermix; Manhattan $7,900 Film/Video Arts; Manhattan $50,000 Raindance Foundation; Manhattan $25,000 Roulette Intermedium; Manhattan $4,000 REGRANT PROGRAM Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA); Buffalo $2,500 Checkerboard Foundation $12,000 Educational Broadcasting Corporation; Manhattan $20,000 Niagara Council of the Arts; Niagara Falls $6,000 Writers Guild of America East; Manhattan $13,500 SERVICES TO THE FIELD Alternative Media Information Center; Manhattan $14,636 American Federation of the Arts; Manhattan $6,000 Association of Independents in Radio; Manhattan $8,000 Black Filmmaker Foundation; Manhattan $4,000 Camera News; Manhattan $2,000 Electronic Arts Intermix; Manhattan $26,500 Film News Now Foundation; Manhattan $4,000 Film/Video Arts; Manhattan $5,000 Foundation for Independent Video and Film; Manhattan $37,500 Giorno Poetry Systems; Manhattan $2,000 Haleakala/ The Kitchen; Manhattan $45,000 International Film Seminars; Manhattan $3,500 Media Alliance; Manhattan $10,000 Museum of the American Indian; Manhattan $2,425 National Alliance Media Arts; Staten Island $4,000 New Wilderness Foundation; Manhattan $3,000 New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; Manhattan $12,000 Niagara Council of the Arts; Niagara Falls $3,000 Parabola Arts Foundation; Manhattan $12,000 Port Washington Public Library $17,450 Video Repertoire; Manhattan $6,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $7,500 WSLU-FM; Canton $5,000 Women Make Movies; Manhattan $12,870 SPECIAL PROJECTS Bronx Council on the Arts $10,000 Film/Video Arts; Manhattan $8,000 Global Village Resource Center; Manhattan $11,000 Mid-York Library System; Utica $3,000 Squeaky Wheel; Buffalo $10,000 Staten Island Council on the Arts; Staten Island $8,000 Whitney Museum of American Art; Manhattan $7,350 WORKSPACE Samaya Foundation; Manhattan $5,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $7,000 Women\u0027s Interart Center; Manhattan $24,000 WRITING ON MEDIA ART Black Filmmaker Foundation; Manhattan $2,000 Foundation for Independent Video and Film; Manhattan $3,500 Port Washington Public Library $3,000 Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $1,500 Advisory Panelists: Mr. Peer D. Bode, Video Artist, Experimental Television Center; Owego Mr. Luis Cancel, Director, Bronx Museum of the Arts; Bronx Mr. Tony Cokes, Video Artist; Manhattan Mr. Collis Davis, Jr., Independent Producer; Brooklyn Mr. Matthew Geller, Video Artist; Manhattan Ms. Ronnie Geist, Administrator, Producer, Women\u0027s Interart Center; Manhattan Ms. Julie M. Gustafson, Independent Producer, Global Village Video Center; Manhattan Ms. Jean Haynes, Film/Video Librarian, Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System; Jamestown Ms. Barbara London, Video Curator, The Museum of Modern Art; Manhattan Ms. Rita Myers, Video Artist; Manhattan Mr. Phill Niblock, Intermedia Artist, Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan Mr. Stephen L. Rabin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Educational Film Center; Annandale, VA Ms. Helen Thorington, Independent Radio Producer, New Radio and Performing Arts; Brooklyn Alternates: Mr. Louis Daniel Giansante, Independent Radio Producer; Manhattan Ms. Chris Hill, Video Artist, Video Curator, Hallwalls; Manhattan Mr. Joe Steinmetz, Independent Producer, Lockport Community Cable Commission; Lockport Ms. Robin White, Director, Media Alliance; Manhattan","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":10926,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}