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John Minkowsky. 1977 Media Center Highlighted Screenings/Lectures 1972 - Present Compiled by James Lohrey, Media Center Director, 1999 1972-73 Astral Projections: A Polyfusion of Media, catalog of exhibition produced by Howard Gutstadt and Mollie Hughes of Survival Arts Media and published by Visual Studies Workshop; the live video and music performance was created live on 2 evenings at the Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester with an audience of 1500. David Cort is a visiting artist to the workshop. 1973-74 Media Center is established NYSCA funds Visual Studies Workshop with a grant to support visiting artists Community Film Series is established 1974-75 Visiting Artist Program established - Nam June Paik, Louise Etra, Bill Viola, Ernest Gusella, Peter Crown, David Cort, Davidson Gigliotti 1975-76 Larry Gale, a three channel videotape exhibited 1977-78 Screening of the 1977-78 Creative Artist Program Service (C.A.P.S.) fellowship recipients in video 1978-79 Marjorie Keller, New York City - Filmmaker and Film Critic Tony Conrad, Buffalo NY - Artist and Filmmaker Steina and Woody Vasulka, Buffalo NY - Video Artists Jack Goldstein, New York City - Filmmaker Gene Youngblood - Author and Teacher of Film and Video Art Constance deJong - Writer and Performance Artist James Byrne, Minneapolis - Video Artist Jonas Mekas - Independent Filmmaker and Co-Founder of Anthology Film Archives David Antin - Poet and Critic William Wegman - Video Artist Robert Polidori - Photographer and Filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, New York City - Dancer and Filmmaker Andre Norton, New York City - Filmmaker 1979-80 Mary Lucier, New York City - Video Artist Carolee Schneeman, New York City - Filmmaker and Performance Artist Alison Knowles, New York City - Bookmaker and Performance Artist Laurie Spiegel, New York City - Composer and Videomaker J.J. Murphy, Brooklyn, NY - Filmmaker Barbara Buckner, Videomaker Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller Hocking, Binghamton NY Synthesized Videomakers William Wegman - Video Artist Les Levine, New York City - Video Artist Nancy Cain - Video Artist Steven Koplan - Filmmaker and Video Artist 1980-81 C.A.P.S. Video Festival Larry Gottheim, Binghamton NY - Filmmaker James Byrne Howard Fried, San Francisco CA - Video Artist Martha Rosler - Critic and Artist Phillip Mallery-Jones, Ithaca NY - Video Artist Linda Klosky, Sante Fe NM - Filmmaker Shalom Gorewitz, Ithaca NY - Video Artist 1981-82 Steina Vasulka gave a lecture titled \u0022Digital Video\u0022 Joseph Celli gave an evening of new music and multi-media performance From the Academy to the Avant-Garde, video exhibition curated by Richard Simmons Women in Silk and Ware Massachusetts screened by Morgan Wesson and Richard Barber Rita Myers presented and discussed her video installations Antonio Muntadas presented his work and installation, La Television Bill Viola screened Ancient of Days and Hatsu Yume David Rose, video artist, screened his work Barbara London delivered lecture titled, Extended Video. John Caldwell, Southern California video artist, presented and discussed his work 1982-83 Barbara Sykes, Chicago video artist Richard Barber screened Reflecto-Vision, Complicated Fun and Nightclub C.A.P.S. Multi-Media Festival Radical Departures Dan Graham gave lecture \u0022Theater Cinema Television\u0022 Susan Bloom and Ed Hill, MANUAL Dee Dee Halleck presented sampler from Paper Tiger Television series Karen Ranucci from DCTV in NYC Ishmael Reed screened and discussed parts 1 and 2 of Personal Problems Tanya Weinberger screened Frogamorphoses with Mike Nguyen Lynn Corcoran gave lecture and screening of her work Gary Hill video lecture and presentation of This, That and the Other Things 1983-84 Video Exhibition of Installation Work (Nov 4 - Dec 2, 1983) John Hanhardt gave a lecture titled \u0022Video Art: Expanded Form\u0022 Ulrike Rosenbach John Minkowsky, video exhibition of \u0022Video/TV: Humor/Comedy\u0022 NO-TV, a 13 week video series, is established 1984-85 Bill Viola, Hatsu Yume Robert Ashley screened several video pieces Nam June Paik screened Good Morning Mr. Orwell Lecture given by Barbara Bosworth Jean-Paul Curtay gave a video performance Screening and Lecture by Lisa Steele Video Screenings from Center for Media Study at University of Buffalo 1985-86 Shirley Clarke, screening and talk Screening of Japanese Experimental Film: From 1960-1980 Part I and II Martha Gever gave a lecture on \u0022Independent Film and Video\u0022 Screening and talk by Farzan Navab Michefle Citron lecture titled \u0022Racism, Sexism, and Violence in Music Videos\u0022 1986-87 Buffalo native Paul Sharits presented a video screening of his work America and Lewis Hine by Nina Rosenbaum Two-channel video installation by Chip Lord shown in the auditorium Video screenings of work by Dan Appleby \u0026 Bruce Carlson Video screenings of Super 8 Films from Buffalo NY Wavelength, film by Michael Snow screened and other films from the collection Lecture by Kathy Rae Huffman John Canalei, Video Screening 1987-88 Film Animation by Bob Breer Film and Video screenings of work from Steve Fagin and Peer Bode Screening of Third World News Reel Upstate Filmmaker\u0027s Equipment Access, an open screening of work Global Village Documentary Festival held Experimental Film by Scott MacDonald screened Screening and talk with Coco Fusco on Black Audio Film Collective/Handsworth Songs 1988-89 Symposium of The Avant-Garde and the Text Black Maria Film Festival - screening and talk with John Columbus Video screening of work by Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano Video Historical Symposium: The Kitchen 1989-90 Symposium of The Development of Video in New York State, 1969-79 Lynn Corcoran gave a talk and screened, Testing the Waters Amos Gitai screened and talked about Bangkok Bahrain LIFT Grants Recipients Video Screening Bush Mama; Harvest 3000 screened by Haile Gerima Robert Huot, screening and talk Rochester Black Film Festival Upstate Media Artists Open Screening 1990-91 Time-Based Review/Group Show Annual Student Media Arts Festival Black Maria Film and Video Festival Julie Zando screens The Bus Stops Here, Let\u0027s Play Pilsoners, The A Ha! Experience and HeyBud Screening and talk by Graham Willoughby 1991-92 NO-TV continues Student Media Arts Festival Installation by Les LeVeque New Revolutions: Glasnost on the Soviet Screen screening 1992-93 Black Maria Film and Video Festival The United States Super8 Film and Video Festival Montage 93 La Voz de la Mujer. Contemporary Latina Artists Video Exhibition Annie Goldson screened her work Jennifer Montgomery, visiting filmmaker Film and Video from the New Colony series 1993-94 Filmmaker Roddy Bogawa presented his work Legendary documentary filmmaker and Academy Award Nominee D.A. Pennebaker presented his films and spoke about his work Black Maria Film and Video Festival Blood Sisters: New Films from California presented by filmmaker Greta Snider Exposure Cafe Visiting filmmaker Su Friedrich screened her work 1994-95 Dusan Makavejev, visiting filmmaker, screens his work Black Maria Film and Video Festival Offline series Regional Rewind: Work by Recipients of the Upstate Media Regrant Program 1995-96 Jody LaFond works in residency program and screens her work Black Maria Film and Video Festival NO-TV #15 is screened 1996-97 NO-TV #16 is screened SMARTfest is screened 1997-98 Dan Reeves lectures and screens his work Lynn Corcoran screens her work Landscape/Land Use video show 1998-99 Local filmmaker Duane Parson screens his film, Plunge Video screening of the recipients of the NYFA Video Fellowships, NO-TV 17 Student Media Arts Festival is screened Friday Night Film Night premieres Survey of Film/Television/Video/Still Photography/Electronic Music Activity at State University of New York Campuses. John Minkowsky. 1977 Visual Studies Workshop with University Center at Buffalo A Program in Photographic Studies at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester offers an MFA degree through University Center at Buffalo. The program differs from other photography programs at State University of New York campuses in two ways. First, it allows students utilization of the extensive and varied resources and facilities (which shall be briefly considered below) of the Visual Studies Workshop, an organization distinct and separate from the SUNY system and involved in a variety of educational, research and public service activities in its own right in \u0022the study and understanding of the role of the visual image in our collective cultural experience.\u0022 Second, the primarily graduate Program is \u0022workshop\u0022 oriented, an alternative structure conducive to intensive and field oriented professional training emphasizing problem assessment within the field and an interaction between the activities of a specific workshop and the needs of the profession as a whole. Since the Program\u0027s inception, concurrent with that of the Visual Studies Workshop in 1969, when a small number of students were admitted on an experimental basis, the Program has grown to seventy-five students participating in numerous and varied workshops. Nathan Lyons, Director of both the Program in Photographic Studies and the Visual Studies Workshop, describes the two-and-a-half year Program as \u0022one of the largest graduate programs in the country which specializes in photography, mixed media and museum studies.\u0022 In the first year, the student is involved in \u0022various kinds of image formation and transmission\u0022; in the second year, a concentration of work and final project in the student\u0027s specific area of interest followed by a six-month internship related to the student\u0027s area of concentrated effort. Interacting with four other educational programs at the Workshop, the student becomes one of the Workshop\u0027s wide range of resources by way of a work-study system, instructing and/or maintaining and expanding the facilities while professionally developing through training in the real working situations the Program affords. The Program, according to Professor Lyons, is \u0022based on the broadest conception of photography as the present technology of the visual language,\u0022 and the variety of facilities utilized and activities participated in by students bear witness to the Program\u0027s extension beyond the realm of traditional concepts of photography. The Visual Studies Workshop\u0027s Research Center has a \u0022living museum\u0022 with over 8000 books, 250 magazine titles and 100,000 images for research purposes. There are also Conservation and Restoration Programs, a hand bookbindery and Program for Museum Studies, a Travelling Exhibition Program of sixteen shows and a Workshop Gallery, a Media Center with some activity in film, video and slide/tape productions and presentations, and a Publications Program producing the periodical Afterimage and numerous visual books including a Reprint Series in a Print Shop capable of color and a variety of black-and-white and other printing processes, including xerography, thermography and telecopier systems.","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":11169,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}