{"id":7506,"title":"Sara Hornbacher","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/sara-hornbacher","version":"ee9f60f320954a8b7455b6b06e275108a3de4dde6c8f8e2771d0afab5befbd60","modified":"2023-05-13T13:17:19+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Sara","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Hornbacher","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Sara Hornbacher.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2023. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/sara-hornbacher.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7506.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":21487}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Hornbacher studied video with the Vasulkas and experimental filmmaking with Paul Sharits, Hollis Frampton and Tony Conrad, earning a graduate degree from the Center for Media Study at the University of Buffalo. She also studied with Dan Sandin at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Her first Artist-in-residency at ETC was in the Spring of 1976. She served as Managing Director of The Center of Creative Performing Arts at the University of Buffalo, staging John Cage and Lejaren Hiller\u0027s HPSCHD at the Albright-Knox Gallery. Upon receiving a NYS CAPS grant to support her own work, Hornbacher became associated with the tool development community surrounding the Experimental Television Center, including Peer Bode, David Jones, Paul Davis, Rich Brewster, and Ralph Hocking. From 1981 until 1994, Hornbacher lived and worked in New York City where she established an international exhibition/screening record, worked in the Television industry, received numerous grants to support her work, curated a number of video art screenings and events, and taught video for 9 years at The School of Visual Arts. In 1985-86, she was the Guest Editor for The College Art Association\u0027s first Art Journal issue on Video. In 1994, she accepted the position as Video Chair at The Atlanta College of Art. Since 1995, she has been actively exhibiting her work in Atlanta, showing video installation environments and sculptural video works at: Nexus Contemporary Art Center, The City Gallery at Chastain, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, and most recently at The Fay Gold Gallery. She was awarded a Nexus Studio in 1996, and has received several other artist grants in support of her work. She is at work on a video installation environment for Requiem an end-of-the-millennium\u0027 show, curated by the TABOO group, for Nexus Contemporary Art Center. After receiving an undergraduate degree in Fine Art, Hornbacher moved to New York State in 1975 to study Media at SUNY Bflo. From \u002775-\u002778 she studied Video with the Vasulkas and experimental filmmaking with Paul Sharits, Hollis Frampton and Tony Conrad. Her first Artist-in-residency at ETC was in the spring of 1976. In 1978, she spent 4 months studying with Dan Sandin at The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. In 1980, Hornbacher took over as Managing Director of The Center of Creative Performing Arts at SUNY/Bflo, staging John Cage and Lejaren Hiller\u0027s HPSCHD at the Albright-Knox Gallery. After the Center closed in the fall of 1980, and upon receiving a NYS CAPS grant to support her own work, Hornbacher moved to Owego, NY. During this period, (1980-81) she continued her pursuit of the \u0027electronic image\u0027 and became further involved with the tool development community in Owego, including Peer Bode, David Jones, Paul Davis, Rich Brewster, Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller-Hocking. The artist has worked in electronic imaging for twenty-five years. She executed her first site-specific room environment in 1975 (one-person undergraduate thesis exhibition), her first installation environment utilizing electronic imaging in 1979, and her first New York City Installation environment at New Math Gallery, 1985. From 1985-1990, site-specific electronic environments were mounted at PostMasters Gallery and The Alternative Museum, NYC; The Islip Art Museum, South Dakota State University, The 1988 \u0022PostCurrents Exhibition\u0022 at SUNY Buffalo, The Fourth Annual Australian Video Festival at Performance Space, Sydney, Australia, and The Bronx Musuem for the Arts where she was an Artist-in-Residence from 1987-1990. The artist has continued to explore the parameters of site-specific, environmental installations - utilizing aspects of electronic imaging. Her single channel videotapes, films and sculptural works have been widely exhibited in the USA and Internationally. From 1981 - 1994, Hornbacher lived and worked in New York City. During this period she established an international exhibition/screening record, worked in the Television industry, received numerous grants to support her work, curated numerous video art screenings and events, and taught video for 9 years at The School of Visual Arts. In 1994, she accepted the position as Video Chair at The Atlanta College of Art. Since 1995, she has been actively exhibiting her work in Atlanta, showing Video Installation environments and sculptural video works at: Nexus Contemporary Art Center, The City Gallery at Chastain, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, and most recently at The Fay Gold Gallery. She was awarded a Nexus Studio for 5 years in 1996, and has received a number of other artist grants in support of her work. Hornbacher has continued as an Artist-in-Residence at ETC on a yearly rotation schedule. AWARDS: ------ Selected by Atlanta Airport Art Program, to submit proposal for permanent interactive public art work at Hartsfield International Airport - Sept. 15, 1999; Selected with nine Atlanta Artists for Whitney Biennial Curatorial Review - August 12,1999; Selected for City of Atlanta Public Art Roster - October, 1997; Individual Artist Project Grant -1997, City of Atlanta; Atlanta College of Art, Faculty Development Grants -1996, 1997, 1998, 1999; Nexus Contemporary Art Center - Studio Artist 1996 - 2001; New York State Electronic Arts Grant - 1993; New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) - Bronx Museum Exhibition Grant for artist\u0027s site-specific installation environment -1990; U.S. Information Agency Travel Grant/American Installation artist, Fourth Annual Australian Video Festival, Sydney, Australia - 1989; Women Make Movies, Video Post-production Grant -1989; B.A.C.A. (Bklyn) Video Postproduction Grant -1989; NYSCA funded Artist-in-Residency - Bronx Museum of the Arts -1987-89; NYSCA Individual Artist Media Grant -1988-89; New York Foundation for the Arts New Works Grant -1987; Checkerboard Foundation Video Production Award -1986; The Kitchen Center, NY, Media Bureau Grants - 1983 and 1988; New York State Creative Artist\u0027s Public Service Award - 1980; Center for Media Studies, Full Three-year, Graduate Fellowship, State University of New York, 1975-1978. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS \u0026 SCREENINGS ATLANTA 2001 - 1995 * Indicates Upcoming Exhibitions 2000 - 2001 -------------------- \u0022A Thousand Plateaus\u0022, solo interactive installation environment Nexus Contemporary Art Center, January - February 2001 *; Atlanta College of Art at SunTrust Plaza - Feb. 2000 *, \u0022The Moving Picture Show\u0022, Agnes Scott College, curated by Cathy Byrd, video installation environment - Jan. 20 - Mar.3, 2000 *; Atlanta College of Art Gallery, 1999 Faculty Exhibition, \u0022Altered States Redux\u0022 - Aug. 27 - Oct. 3, ; \u0022Requiem: Artists Commenorate a Dying Century\u0022, curated by the TABOO Group, \u0022G-Force Erasure 99\u0022, a site-specific sculptural installation, Nexus Contemporary Art Center - Jan. 15 - Mar. 6, 1999; Fay Gold Gallery, \u0022Altered States\u0022, solo site-specific video installation environment - Oct.9 - Nov.4, 1998; \u0022Transfigured Time\u0022, site-specific installation environment, City Gallery at Chastain, Jan. 16- Mar. 8, 1998; Atlanta College of Art Faculty Exhibition, \u0022Bandwidth\u0022, sculptural installation - Aug. 29 - Oct. 5, 1997; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Studio Artists exhibition with Nexus Biennial - April 4 - 26, 1997; \u0022Art In General Celebrates 25 Years of The Experimental TV Center\u0022, NYC - Nov. 8, \u002796 - Jan. 25,1997; Atlanta College of Art Faculty Exhibition, \u0022G-Force Erasure \u002796\u0022, Oct. 11- Nov. 17; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, \u0022Meta-mapping\u0022, site-specific video installation environment, Sept. 7, 1996; TABOO Olympic Exhibit, \u0022Gone with the Wind: \u0022The Fabrication and Denial of Southern Identity\u0022, \u0022Double Entendre\u0022, site-specific installation City Gallery at Chastain - July 14-Sept. 20, 1996; \u0022November Show\u0022, Atlanta -1995, curated by Dan Cameron, senior curator, The New Museum, NYC; Atlanta College of Art Faculty Exhibition, \u0022Precession of the Simulacra\u0022, five-monitor installation - Aug. 25 - Oct. 1, 1995; Second Annual New York International Video Festival - July 1995. 1979 - 1994 ----------- \u0022Iterations: The New Digital Image\u0022, International Center for Photography (ICP) NYC, Timothy Druckrey/Charles Stainback curators - Oct.16, \u002793 - Jan. 21, 1994; \u0022Life Lessons\u0022 - An exhibition of new acquisitions, Colin Westbrook, Chicago Art Institute - March-April, 1994; \u0022National Showcase Exhibition\u0022, The Alternative Museum, NYC - July 1993; \u0022Montage \u002793\u0022, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY- July 1993; Whitney Museum, \u0022Image World: Metamedia\u0022 - Nov. 9, 1989 - Feb. 18, 1990; \u0022Video and the Computer\u0022, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Barbara London, Nov.2 - Dec. 31, 1989. \u0022Making Their Mark: Women Enter the Mainstream 1970-1985\u0022, Touring Exhibition: Cincinnati Art Museum, Feb. 22- April 2, 1989; New Orleans Museum of Art, May 6 - June 18, 1989; Denver Art Museum, July 22-Sept. 10, 1989; Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, October 20 - Decrmber 31, 1989. Infermental Video Festival, 1988: Warsaw, Poland, Kunstverein: Bonn, West Germany, Monitor: Frolunda, Sweden, Art Metropole: Toronto, Film Archives Turku, Finland; 1988 Reina Sofia Festival: Madrid, Spain; \u0022Future Histories: the Impact of Changing Technology\u0022, Marilyn Zeitlin curator, Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA, Nov. 14-Dec. 15, 1985. \u0022Alternating Currents\u0022, Curators: Terry Berkowitz and David Donihue, Alternative Museum, NYC, June 15-July 6, 1985. Other Selected 1980\u0027s Exhibitions/Screenings: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, NYC: The Whitney Museum of American Art, ; The Kitchen Center, Postmasters Gallery, White Columns, New Math Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, The Limelight, 8 BC, Limbo Lounge, The Mudd Club, The Pyramid Club, Theatre for a New City, The American Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, and The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Gallery, Cambridge, MA; American Film Institute, Los Angeles; Berlin Film Festival, ARS Electronica; Kijkhuis Video Festival; American Centre in Paris; Hallwalls, Albright-Knox Gallery, SUNY/AB and Media Study/Bflo, all Buffalo, NY. ARTISTS RESIDENCIES ------------------- Hambidge Center A.I.R - Rabun Gap, Georgia - June 15 - 26, 1999; Large Format Digital Imaging Workshop, Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University - May 24 - June 5, 1999; Nexus Studio Artist: 1996-2001; Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY, Artist-in-Residence, May 20 -26, 1998; Film/Video Arts: Video Synthesis Studio AIR - Aug. 8 -13,1988 - Feb. 20 - 25,1990; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYSCA - funded A.I.R. - Oct. 1987 - Oct. 1989; Harvestworks - P.A.S.S: Electronic Music Studio Residency, April 1987; New York Foundation for the Arts: Islip Art Museum A.I.R. , East Islip, Long Island, NY, May 3-June 8,1987. ZBS Electronic Music Studio A.I.R: collaboration with David Held; Fort Edward, NY, April 1 - 5, 1982. Experimental Television Center: In-residency, Owego, NY; Oct. 1980 - Dec.- 1981. Filmmaker-in-Residency: Cinemedia, Rochester, NY; sponsored access to Steinbeck Editor; Spring 1977. Experimental Television Center: Owego, New York; Annual rotation schedule 1976 -1999. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ----------------------- Atlanta College of Art, Video Department Chair, 1994 - present; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Board Member,1995-1997; Production Manager \u0026 Postproduction Supervisor for \u0022On Translation: The Games\u0022, a site-specific Olympic Premiere Exhibit by Antonio Muntadas, Atlanta College of Art Gallery - June - Aug. 4, 1996; Video Faculty, School of Visual Arts, Film/Video Department, 1986 - 94; Technical Consultant: Electronic Atelier, Bronx Museum -1992-94; Video Curator: \u0022Techno-Bop\u0022, The Kitchen, NYC - 1987 and \u0022The Other New York: Regional Reflections\u0022- 1986 American Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles. Publication Editor: \u0022Video: The Reflexive Medium\u0022, College Art Association ART JOURNAL, 1985; Studio Camera person/News Editor: WPIX-TV, NYC and WABC-TV, NYC, 1983 - 1986; Administrative Director, Locus Communications, NYC","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":21487,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}