Center for Photography at Woodstock

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• Programs of the Center for Photography at Woodstock Groups

  Founded in 1977, the Center for Photography at Woodstock is a 501(c)(3) arts and educational organization offering a darkroom and archives. Its galleries and educational resources are free and open to the public; its mission supports contemporary photographers through education, exhibition and publication. Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and corporate and private donors, the Center publishes PHOTOGRAPHY Center Quarterly, PHOTOGRAPHY Building Links and The Surrogate Figure and has supported the Woodstock Photography Workshops since 1979; http://www.cpw.org.

• Woodstock Community Video Chronology

  Woodstock Community Video, Woodstock, New York, founded by Ken marsh; members include Barbara Buckner, Bob Dacy, Gary Hill, Steven Kolpan and Elaine Milosh. Production center and resource for community video; initiates local cable programming; begins Artists' TV Lab

• Woodstock Video Expovision Chronology

  Woodstock Community Video, Woodstock, New York, presented the first Woodstock Video Expovision in August 1975 over a five-day period; the program comprised tape showings by 50 NYS video makers, a video synthesizer demonstration, and an electronic media performance with dance. The event included a presentation by the Earthscore Foundation on ecological and behavioral philosophies of media and a video environment by artists of Media Bus; a panel discussion featured Gerd Stern of Intermedia Systems, Barbara London of the Museum of Modern Art, and John Godfrey of WNET's Experimental TV Lab.

• Woodstock Community Video Chronology

  Woodstock Community Video, Woodstock, New York, presented Woodstock Video Expovision at the Arnolfini Arts Center October 7-9, 1977. Events included The TV Commercial: Is it Art? by Bruce Kurtz; Public Television and Video Art by Betsy Connors; Video Art and the Art Critic by John Orentlicher, Gary Hill and Ernest Gusella; West Coast Video; and The Police Tapes by Susan and Alan Raymond.

• Visual Studies Workshop - Media Center: Descriptions of Visual Studies Workshop (1977, 1999) Groups

  James Lohrey's 1999 Media Center Highlighted Screenings/Lectures 1972–Present lists visiting artists, screenings, lectures and festivals at Visual Studies Workshop from 1972 to 1999, noting establishment of the Media Center, Visiting Artist Program and the NO‑TV series. John Minkowsky's 1977 survey describes the Program in Photographic Studies offering an MFA through University Center at Buffalo under Nathan Lyons; the two‑and‑a‑half‑year, workshop‑oriented curriculum includes concentrated projects and a six‑month internship. Facilities cited include a Research Center with over 8,000 books, 250 magazine titles and 100,000 images, conservation and restoration, a bookbindery, a travelling exhibition program and a publications program producing Afterimage and visual books.

• Independent Video: A Complete Guide to the Physics, Operation, and Application of the New Television for the Student, The Artist and for Community TV Groups

  Founded by Ken Marsh, Woodstock Community Video (WCV) was a Woodstock, New York community video organization active in the early 1970s; members included Barbara Buckner, Bob Dacy, Gary Hill, Steven Kolpan and Elaine Milosh, and Tobe Carey served as Media Services Coordinator from 1972–75. WCV produced local public-access programming, began cablecasts from the system headend in May 1972 and later obtained a Town Hall origination line; it organized the Artists' TV Lab (established 1973 with NYSCA support, moved to Rhinebeck c.1976) and presented the Woodstock Video Expovision festival (1975–77).