Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS). Annual Report 1975-76

The Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) serves  both artists and the public by assisting individual artists in the  creation of new works, and by bringing them and their work to the attention of a broader audience.

1975-1976

Video:

Artists’ Bios:  
ELAINE F. BALY (NYC) produces documentaries and information/education tapes of importance to minority communities on 1/2-inch portable and studio equipment. Three of her exhibited works are James Vanderzee (1974) (Burgess Collection Gallery,  1975; Antioch College Exhibit, 1974; various community agencies, 1974, 1975), Youth Village Park (1973) (French, German, and Swiss TV, 1973-74; US Information Agency and various community agencies, 1973-75), and Attica Blues (1972) (Nigerian, French, German, and Swiss TV, 1973-74; Studio Museum of Harlem, 1973; Acts of Art Gallery, 1972). She has received a New York State Council on the Arts Award (1975), a National Endowment for the Arts Expansion Arts Grant (1974), and a Public Media Grant (1973). Ms. Baly is director of programming and co-founder of Peoples Communications Network, Inc.

SKIP BLUMBERG (Lanesville) produces documentary videotapes combining portable video with special effects. He has also worked with low power, viewer participation TV broadcasting. His work includes The Lanesville UFO Incident with John Keeler (1975) (Lanesville TV, 1975), Probably America's Smallest TV Station (1975) co-produced with Lanesville Television and Video Review (WNET/13, WGBH and other public TV stations, MIT, Bard College, and the Art Institute (Chicago), all in 1975), and It's A Living (1975) co-produced by Videopolis and other artists (WTTW (Chicago) and other Central Educational Network stations. Hunter College, New York Public Library, and Lake Placid Center for Music, Drama and Art, all in 1975). Mr. Blumberg is on the staff of The Media Center in Lanesville (N.Y.).

PEER BODE (Binghamton) uses the facilities at the Experimental Television Center in Binghamton (video synthesizer systems) to make lyrical visual video. His works include A Lummation Twice  (1975)  (Sussex  Anex Works, Ottawa, Canada; Woodstock Video Expovision; Twelfth Annual Avant Garde Festival, all in 1975), A Video Picturing (1975) (Anthology Film Archives, The Kitchen, NYC, 1975), and Window with Beryl Blackman (1974) (Anthology Film Archives, 1975; The Kitchen, 1975; Eleventh Annual Avant Garde Festival, 1974). Mr. Bode is on the staff at the Experimental Television Center.

BARTON FRIEDMAN (Lanesville) considers himself a video "docufantasarian"--one who makes fantasy-documentaries--for community broadcasting with low-cost equipment. His works include Frank "The Fist" Farkle Vs. Rocky Van (1975) (Lanesville TV; Video Television Review, 1975), Probably America's Smallest TV Station (1975) (WNET, 1975), Road Tapes (a work in progress) with Nancy Cain (1975) (Expovision; Woodstock Artists Cooperative Gallery, 1975), and The Eternal Frame with Ant Farm (1975)  (Anthology Film Archives, NYC, 1975). He is a member of Video-freex and Media Bus Inc.

JULIA R. HEYWARD (NYC) uses 1/2-inch portable equipment and has recently started color. She is mostly involved with editing structures. Her works include Ma I Am, Huh (performance using video, 179 Duane Street, NYC, (1975), Sense Since (performance using video, The Kitchen, NYC, 1975), and Was Here (1973) (performance using video, The Show for The Independent Study Program, The Whitney Museum; 179 Duane Street, NYC, both in 1973). Ms. Heyward received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant (mixed-media, 1974); she has worked in the fields of sculpture, painting, photography, and performance.

PHILIP MALLORY JONES (Ithaca) uses a method termed "videomation": a combination of video images, live action and animated film, photography, and graphics in a system which interfaces video technology, precision animation stand composition, and micro-computer control. Beyond the Mountains, More Mountains (1975) (Brooklyn Museum of Art; Cornell University Cinema; Atlanta University, all in 1975). Tides (1974) (Atlanta University and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1975; Cornell University, 1974) received Director's Choice Award, Sinking Creek Film Celebration. Omen (1972) was presented by CBS-TV (1973) and WCIC-TV (1972). Mr. Jones received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1975), the Moveable Type Award (1973), and two separate Cornell University Graduate Fellowships (1973-75, 1969-71). Currently, he is the director of the Ithaca Video Project.

BERYL KOROT (NYC) has most recently been working on multi-channel constructions influenced structurally by her work as a weaver. Showings of her work include Dachau -74 (1975) (four-channel video, The Kitchen, NYC; Everson Museum, Syracuse, 1975),  Lost Lascaux Bull (1974) (Kennedy Art Center, "Art Now 1974"; "Project 74", Koln, Germany, 1974), and Fourth of July in Saugerties produced with Ira Schneider (1972), The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, (1975); Sao Paulo Bienal; and traveling (1975); "Circuit",  Everson  Museum, Syracuse (1974). Ms. Korot has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (1975) and the New York State Council on the Arts (to a group of four artists) through Electronic Arts Intermix, 1974. Ms. Korot is a weaver and also co-edited Video Art (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NYC, 1976).

SHIGEKO KUBOTA (NYC) fuses the documentary with video art aiming at a higher consciousness in style and semantics. She makes extensive use of video techniques, keying, matting and synthesizing. Her videotapes include Video Girls and Video Songs for Navaho Sky (1974-75) (Museum of Modern Art, 1975; Everson Museum, Syracuse, work in progress, 1974; "Art Now 1974", The Kennedy Art Center, Washington, D.C., as a work in progress), Marcel Duchamp and John Cage (1974) (Women's Interart Center, NYC, 1975; "Projected Video", Whitney Museum, 1974), and Europe on 1/2-Inch a Day (1973) (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1975; "Circuit", Everson Museum and traveling, 1973; The Kitchen, NYC, 1973). Ms. Kubota has worked with sculpture, happenings and events, and poetry. She is the author of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage (Wittenborn, NYC).

MICHAEL MARTON (Buskirk) makes documentaries using highly portable hand-held video tape recorders for maximum mobility.  He has also worked in photography and documentary and feature filmmaking. His video tapes include Stonewall Joe (1975) (WMHT, Channel 17, Schenectady, 1975), Ivan Illich, and The End of the Trail both on Channel 2, German TV, (1974).

IRA SCHNEIDER (NYC) uses portable videotape recorders and sophisticated editing to assemble non-narrative informational collages designed for single and/or multi-channel presentation. Some of his works are Bits, Chunks & Pieces (1975) (The Kitchen, NYC; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, New Orleans, all in 1975), Manhattan is an Island (1974) Museum of Art, Milan, Italy, (1975); The Kitchen, NYC (1974); Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse (1974), and Fourth of July in Saugerties produced with Beryl Korot (1972) Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1975); "Art Now 1974," The Kennedy Art Center, Washington, D.C. (1973-74); "Circuit," Everson Museum and traveling (1973). Mr. Schneider has won grants from The National Endowment for the Arts (1975) and the New York State Council on the Arts (to a group of 4 artists, 1974). He is the co-editor of Video Art and Scan.

Panelists for Video:

Consultant for Video: Hermine Freed