Biography
- Author
- Aldo Tambellini
- Publisher
- Communicationsphere
- Place
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- ETC archive
- ETC1773
Abstract
From the Experimental Television Center archive
ETC1773
Biography of Aldo Tambellini. The Age of Communicationsphere by Tambellini.
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Aldo Tambellini (born 1930, Syracuse, New York) moved to New York in 1959 and worked in sculpture, painting, 16 mm film and video, founding Electromedia and the Gate and Black Gate Theatres. He produced artist broadcasts including Black TV (1968), Medium is the Medium (WGBH, 1969) and Inauguration '81, and developed the Communicationsphere for interactive telecommunications using slow-scan television and two-way cable TV with Sarah Dickinson. He was a 1977 Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and received project grants from the M.l.T Council for the Arts (1979, 1981), the New York State Council on the Arts (1973), and the Oberhausen International Grand Prix (1969); he exhibited at MoMA and the Everson Museum.
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