Video History Project

Chronology

Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System

Date
1984
NYSCA support to Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System to build circulating video art collection for WNY
Cite this record

"Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/chautauqua-cattaraugus-library-system-0.

Download RIS citation

Submit a change or correction

If unchecked, this will appear as a public note on the site immediately. Spam filters may delay publication, but all submissions are reviewed by staff.

Changes will be reviewed and integrated as time permits. For major changes, feel free to email [email protected].

Last modified 16 May 2011

Related records

  • Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System Chronology

    Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System funded to build a circulating collection of video art for western New York. Jean Haynes, Librarian, responsible for activity in the program .

  • Chautauqua Cattaraugus Library System: Descriptions (1977, 1998) Groups

    Jean Haynes developed the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System's 3/4" U-Matic video collection after moving to Jamestown in October 1966; it was supported by the Library Services and Construction Act and NYSCA funded a circulating collection in 1984. Haynes and Survival Arts Media (Howard Gutstadt and Mollie Hughes) introduced portapak works, ran workshops and provided postproduction assistance using 8650 editing decks while co-producing the Artists and Craftsmen Anthology and a visiting-artist series. VHS supplanted U-matic and Hallwalls acquired most tapes in the early 1990s; Haynes published a 1989 Sampler.

  • Ithaca Video Project Chronology

    New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Ithaca Video Project, under direction of Philip Mallory Jones and Fred Mangones, for workshops and video equipment access

  • Crandall Library Chronology

    Crandall Library, Glens Falls. NYSCA support for independent filmmaker series.

  • Distribution at Galleries, Museums, and Media Centers Collections

    Survey of videotape distribution through U.S. museums, gallery dealers and media centers; contributors include curators and distributors at Whitney, Everson, Berkeley University Art Museum, MoMA, Castelli/Sonnabend, Electronic Arts Intermix, Global Village, The Kitchen and Synapse. Museums package traveling video shows and charge artist fees; distributors and media centers lease or sell tapes to institutions. Betamax/VHS, cable and broadcast are discussed as emerging markets; notable projects include the Whitney's Introduction to Video for the AFA catalog, Everson's Video Anthology, Global Village's Giving Birth and Synapse's planned paid distribution beginning January 1979.

  • Archives

    Experimental Television Center Archive is an annex hosted at archive.org containing over 1,200 documents. The Vasulka Archive holds over 27,000 pages on video and electronic art, largely relating to Steina and Woody Vasulka and representing over 200 artists and scholars. The John Leimseider Archive provides audio and video product documentation and schematics; Computer Image Corporation Archive documents machines developed in Denver, Colorado, 1960–1985; Omnibus Computer Graphics Archive documents J.C. Pennie and Omnibus Computer Graphics, Inc., 1982–1987; Image West Archive holds ephemera relating to the Hollywood motion graphics facility Image West.