{"id":4753,"title":"Survey of Film/Television/Video/Still Photography/Electronic Music Activity at State University of New York Campuses","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/activities-state-university-system-1977-1980","version":"28936c54df901a02063ca98d2b49ea59f93dc0c0a84da42f6b4f555a5c43c2c4","modified":"2026-09-13T21:52:08.1980152+00:00","credits":[{"role":"Author","name":"John Minkowsky"}],"authorKeys":["Minkowsky, John"],"subjects":["Groups"],"metadata":[{"label":"Publisher","value":"State University of NY","url":null},{"label":"Place","value":"Albany, New York","url":null},{"label":"ETC archive","value":"ETC0651","url":null},{"label":"Group location","value":"New York State","url":null},{"label":"Group","value":"State University of New York and the University-wide Committee on the Arts","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Survey of Film/Television/Video/Still Photography/Electronic Music Activities at State University of New York Campuses.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/activities-state-university-system-1977-1980.","publication":"John Minkowsky. 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For film study, there are presently: one Department of Cinema (University Center at Binghamton), one Program in Media Study (University Center at Buffalo), and three Programs in Film Study (University Center at Albany, and University Colleges at Cortland and Purchase) with a fourth Film Program in the preparatory stages at University College at Brockport. Among the two-year colleges, Community College of the Finger Lakes has offered a Concentration in Cinema Studies (although this program has recently been discontinued), and Mohawk Valley Community College is considering an AA degree-granting Option in Photography and Cinematography. Although there are no departments or programs dedicated to video, Center for Media Study at University Center at Buffalo offers video as a strong area of concentration, and the Department of Cinema at University Center at Binghamton has recently included video in its activities. Programs concentrating primarily on photography as a means of artistic expression have been developed at University Centers at Albany, Buffalo and Stony Brook, University Colleges at New Paltz, Oswego and Potsdam and College of Ceramics at Alfred University, in addition to a graduate Program in Photographic Studies, also at University Center at Buffalo, which is offered through the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. Electronic music is the least developed, in terms of academic curricula, of the arts under consideration. There is, however, a formal Program at University Center at Albany and an informal program offering no major but a concentration for graduate students at University Center at Stony Brook. - Survey of Film/Television/Video/Still Photography/Electronic Music Activity at State University of New York Campuses. John Minkowsky. 1977 Activities of the University-wide Committee on the Arts, Albany, New York The University-wide Committee Patricia Kerr Ross is Associate for the Arts in the SUNY system, and Director of the University-wide Committee on the Arts, a group of about twenty administrators, faculty and students, all with special interests and competencies in the various arts, from among the seventy two campuses in the SUNY system. The Director holds monthly meetings with the Committee and plans University-wide activities such as festivals, competitions, conferences and symposia; the appearances of touring companies, individual artists and lecturers both from outside and from within the system; and planning and policy suggestions leading to the growth and excellence of the arts. The Committee does not concern itself with the academic programs of the departments at individual campus units, but plays a coordinating role for joint efforts involving the above activities. Film and Video Activities University-wide Film Symposium April 29-30 1972 The Committee sponsored a University-wide Film Symposium at the Center at Binghamton on April 29-30 1972. The first day scheduled the screening and discussion of films by independent film artists Stan Brakhage, Ernie Gehr, Ken Jacobs, Larry Gottheim and Richard Leacock, followed by a preview of a feature film by Nicholas Ray, then in residence at Binghamton. On the next day, art critic Lawrence Alloway of the Stonybrook Center lectured on \u0022The Commercial Film\u0022 and there was a Panel Discussion of \u0022The Role of Film in the University\u0022 by Gerald O\u0027Grady, Center at Buffalo, Richard Leacock of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ken Jacobs and Larry Gottheim, Center at Binghamton and Ed Emshwiller, independent filmmaker. Seminar on Teaching Making December 14, 1973. The Committee joined the Center for Media Study of the Center at Buffalo to sponsor a Seminar on Teaching Making on December 14, 1973. Gerald O\u0027Grady, who arranged the Seminar, wrote: \u0022The seminar\u0027s simple terms of order, introductory and advanced work in film and video workshops, rounded out by some perspectives by incongruity, to echo Kenneth Burke doubts, thoughts - reflections, visions and questions - are designed not to set constraints, but to release varieties, to echo David Riesman. It is a some-ary seminar, not a summary conference. We have invited the field\u0027s leading academic practitioners to Buffalo, not in search of a model curriculum or a pilot program, but simply to give their ideas resonance and currency among each other and a small body of those directly concerned with nourishing the arts. The intent is to provide an intellectual environment in which those who care deeply about these problems can open their thinking to interaction, expansion, and refinement, as well as to scrutiny, question and criticism.\u0022 Presentations: Stan Brakhage - Art Institute, Chicago and University of Colorado, Boulder \u0022Some Doubts About the Venture\u0022 Hollis Frampton - State University of New York at Buffalo \u0022Some Thoughts on Teaching Making\u0022 Discussion Papers: Introductory Work Larry Gottheim - State University of New York at Binghamton; Standish Lawder - Yale University; Gunvor Nelson - San Francisco Institute of the Arts; Tony Conrad - Antioch College Critical Summary and Overview by: Willard Van Dyke - State University of New York, College at Purchase; Director, Department of Film, Museum of Modern Art Discussion Papers: Advanced Work Richard Leacock - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ken Jacobs - State University of New York at Binghamton; Robert Gardner - Harvard University; Paul Sharits State University of New York at Buffalo Critical Summary and Overview by: Peter Kubelka - Visiting Professor, State University of New York at Binghamton; Director Oesterreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna Discussion Vladimir Petric - Harvard University; formerly at Academy of Radio, Film, Television, and Theater, Belgrade \u0022Some Reflections of a European\u0022 Gerald O\u0027Grady - State University of New York at Buffalo; Director, Media Study Inc. \u0022Some Visions Toward a Curriculum\u0022 Discussion Papers: Video Workshops Woody and Steina Vasulka - Media Study Inc., Buffalo; Walter Wright York University, Toronto; William Etra New York University; Scott Bartlett - formerly at Columbia University, New York and at San Francisco State College; Stan Vanderbeek University of South Florida Critical Summary and Overview by: Ed Emshwiller - Guggenheim Fellow in Film; Video Artist in Residence at the Television Laboratory, Channel 13, New York James Blue - Rice University \u0022Some Questions for the Independents\u0022 Discussion University-Wide Celebration of the Arts April 26-29, 1974 The University-Wide Celebration of the Arts was held at the College at Fredonia on April 26-29, 1974. For that event, the Committee commissioned new film works by four of its own artists, Ken Jacobs and Larry Gottheim of the Center at Binghamton and Hollis Frampton and Paul Sharits of the Center at Buffalo. There were also screenings of films by Irving Kriesberg of Empire State College and Willard Van Dyke of the College at Purchase, video installations by Steina and Woody Vasulka of the Center at Buffalo and Ralph Hocking of the Center at Binghamton, and student workshops in film and video conducted by all of the artists mentioned. The Moving Image/The Maker In the fall of 1974, the Committee launched a new year-long program called The Moving Image/The Maker. Noted documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker was invited to screen and discuss his own works at ten campuses during the year and to act, through his presence on the campuses, as a consultant to students, faculty, arts administrators, and educational communications centers\u0027 staffs on issues relating to film and video. The purpose of the program is to make available excellent films and videotapes not generally projected or broadcasted under commercial circumstances, and therefore too seldom seen by campus and community audiences. The intention of having the artist present at the screenings was to create an informed context for the viewing of the works. In 1975-76, Hilary Harris was the invited filmmaker and in 1976-77, the program continues with Nancy Baker, Ellen Hovde, Barbara Kopple, Mary Lampson, Barbara Margolis and Muffie Meyer. The Moving Image/New York City A related program, The Moving Image/New York City, was started in the spring of 1976. About 200 students and faculty from SUNY campuses visited New York City on April 1-3 for a special three-day program in film and video under the guidance of Jonas Mekas. The purposes of this program are to introduce students to a wide range of current modes of film and video making through visits to artists\u0027 studios and to centers of film and video activity, and, above all, to bring students into contact with the artists themselves. Students visited the private studios of filmmakers Nancy Graves and Ken Jacobs; met Ed Emshwiller at The Television Laboratory at Channel 13, WNET; saw a varied program of videotapes selected by Shigeko Kubota, video artist and Video Curator at Anthology Film Archives; saw and discussed films with Claudia Weill, Joan Jonas and Barry Gerson; and attended other screenings at the Whitney Museum, Film Forum, Anthology Film Archives, the Millenium Film Workshop, the Collective for Living Cinema, and the Museum of Modern Art. The program will be offered twice in the spring of 1977. Supporting funds have been provided by the Creative Artists Public Service Program of New York State and by the Film Bureau of the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1976-77, the Committee has plans to increase the distribution of film and videotapes by independent artists to various campuses and their communities throughout New York State by purchasing and loaning a collection of films selected for this purpose by a special advisory committee, and to increase the accessibility of films made at SUNY campuses to the other campuses throughout the state by sponsoring a university-wide exhibition of films and videotapes made by SUNY students in the spring of 1977. Television Activities Educational Communications Centers and The Television Arts November 21-22, 1974 On November 21-22, 1974, the University-wide Committee on the Arts, in cooperation with the Office of Educational Development, sponsored a Conference on Educational Communications Centers and The Television Arts. It was coordinated by Gerald O\u0027Grady of the Center at Buffalo and was held at the Center at Albany. The purposes of this Conference were (1) to present the latest developments in the video arts and their related technologies and systems, (2) to suggest ways in which the facilities of Educational Communications Centers might be prepared to serve the developing video artists on their own campuses and in their surrounding communities, and (3) to indicate ways in which the Centers might stimulate activity in all of the arts and humanities. Thursday November 21 1:15 Welcome - Lewis P. Welch, Vice President for University Affairs, State University of New York at Albany Remarks - Robert Pasciullo, Assistant Dean, Office of Educational Development, State University of New York - Patricia Kerr Ross, Associate for the Arts, University-wide Committee on the Arts, State University of New York 1:30 The Three Universes of Media Gerald O\u0027Grady, Director, Instructional","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":20625,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}