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

• Media Center Highlighted Screenings/Lectures 1972 - Present Compiled by James Lohrey, Media Center Director, 1999
• Survey of Film/Television/Video/Still Photography/Electronic Music Activity at State University of New York Campuses.  John Minkowsky. 1977

Media Center Highlighted Screenings/Lectures 1972 - Present
Compiled by James Lohrey, Media Center Director, 1999

1972-73
Astral Projections: A Polyfusion of Media, catalog of exhibition produced by Howard Gutstadt and Mollie Hughes of Survival Arts Media and published by Visual Studies Workshop; the live video and music performance was created live on 2 evenings at the Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester with an audience of 1500.
David Cort is a visiting artist to the workshop.

1973-74
Media Center is established
NYSCA funds Visual Studies Workshop with a grant to support visiting artists
Community Film Series is established

1974-75
Visiting Artist Program established - Nam June Paik, Louise Etra, Bill Viola, Ernest Gusella, Peter Crown, David Cort, Davidson Gigliotti

1975-76
Larry Gale, a three channel videotape exhibited

1977-78
Screening of the 1977-78 Creative Artist Program Service (C.A.P.S.) fellowship recipients in video

1978-79
Marjorie Keller, New York City - Filmmaker and Film Critic
Tony Conrad, Buffalo NY - Artist and Filmmaker
Steina and Woody Vasulka, Buffalo NY - Video Artists
Jack Goldstein, New York City - Filmmaker
Gene Youngblood - Author and Teacher of Film and Video Art
Constance deJong - Writer and Performance Artist
James Byrne, Minneapolis - Video Artist
Jonas Mekas - Independent Filmmaker and Co-Founder of Anthology Film Archives
David Antin - Poet and Critic
William Wegman - Video Artist
Robert Polidori - Photographer and Filmmaker
Yvonne Rainer, New York City - Dancer and Filmmaker
Andre Norton, New York City - Filmmaker

1979-80
Mary Lucier, New York City - Video Artist
Carolee Schneeman, New York City - Filmmaker and Performance Artist
Alison Knowles, New York City - Bookmaker and Performance Artist
Laurie Spiegel, New York City - Composer and Videomaker
J.J. Murphy, Brooklyn, NY - Filmmaker
Barbara Buckner, Videomaker
Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller Hocking, Binghamton NY Synthesized Videomakers
William Wegman - Video Artist
Les Levine, New York City - Video Artist
Nancy Cain - Video Artist
Steven Koplan - Filmmaker and Video Artist

1980-81
C.A.P.S. Video Festival
Larry Gottheim, Binghamton NY - Filmmaker
James Byrne
Howard Fried, San Francisco CA - Video Artist
Martha Rosler - Critic and Artist
Phillip Mallery-Jones, Ithaca NY - Video Artist
Linda Klosky, Sante Fe NM - Filmmaker
Shalom Gorewitz, Ithaca NY - Video Artist

1981-82
Steina Vasulka gave a lecture titled "Digital Video"
Joseph Celli gave an evening of new music and multi-media performance
From the Academy to the Avant-Garde, video exhibition curated by Richard Simmons
Women in Silk and Ware Massachusetts screened by Morgan Wesson and Richard Barber
Rita Myers presented and discussed her video installations
Antonio Muntadas presented his work and installation, La Television
Bill Viola screened Ancient of Days and Hatsu Yume
David Rose, video artist, screened his work
Barbara London delivered lecture titled, Extended Video.
John Caldwell, Southern California video artist, presented and discussed his work

1982-83
Barbara Sykes, Chicago video artist
Richard Barber screened Reflecto-Vision, Complicated Fun and Nightclub
C.A.P.S. Multi-Media Festival Radical Departures
Dan Graham gave lecture "Theater Cinema Television"
Susan Bloom and Ed Hill, MANUAL
Dee Dee Halleck presented sampler from Paper Tiger Television series
Karen Ranucci from DCTV in NYC
Ishmael Reed screened and discussed parts 1 and 2 of Personal Problems
Tanya Weinberger screened Frogamorphoses with Mike Nguyen
Lynn Corcoran gave lecture and screening of her work
Gary Hill video lecture and presentation of This, That and the Other Things

1983-84
Video Exhibition of Installation Work (Nov 4 - Dec 2, 1983)
John Hanhardt gave a lecture titled "Video Art: Expanded Form"
Ulrike Rosenbach
John Minkowsky, video exhibition of "Video/TV: Humor/Comedy"
NO-TV, a 13 week video series, is established

1984-85
Bill Viola, Hatsu Yume
Robert Ashley screened several video pieces
Nam June Paik screened Good Morning Mr. Orwell
Lecture given by Barbara Bosworth
Jean-Paul Curtay gave a video performance
Screening and Lecture by Lisa Steele
Video Screenings from Center for Media Study at University of Buffalo

1985-86
Shirley Clarke, screening and talk
Screening of Japanese Experimental Film: From 1960-1980 Part I and II
Martha Gever gave a lecture on "Independent Film and Video"
Screening and talk by Farzan Navab
Michefle Citron lecture titled "Racism, Sexism, and Violence in Music Videos"

1986-87
Buffalo native Paul Sharits presented a video screening of his work
America and Lewis Hine by Nina Rosenbaum
Two-channel video installation by Chip Lord shown in the auditorium
Video screenings of work by Dan Appleby & Bruce Carlson
Video screenings of Super 8 Films from Buffalo NY
Wavelength, film by Michael Snow screened and other films from the collection
Lecture by Kathy Rae Huffman
John Canalei, Video Screening

1987-88
Film Animation by Bob Breer
Film and Video screenings of work from Steve Fagin and Peer Bode
Screening of Third World News Reel
Upstate Filmmaker's Equipment Access, an open screening of work
Global Village Documentary Festival held
Experimental Film by Scott MacDonald screened
Screening and talk with Coco Fusco on Black Audio Film Collective/Handsworth Songs

1988-89
Symposium of The Avant-Garde and the Text
Black Maria Film Festival - screening and talk with John Columbus
Video screening of work by Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano
Video Historical Symposium: The Kitchen

1989-90
Symposium of The Development of Video in New York State, 1969-79
Lynn Corcoran gave a talk and screened, Testing the Waters
Amos Gitai screened and talked about Bangkok Bahrain
LIFT Grants Recipients Video Screening
Bush Mama; Harvest 3000 screened by Haile Gerima
Robert Huot, screening and talk
Rochester Black Film Festival
Upstate Media Artists Open Screening

1990-91
Time-Based Review/Group Show
Annual Student Media Arts Festival
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Julie Zando screens The Bus Stops Here, Let's Play Pilsoners, The A Ha! Experience and HeyBud
Screening and talk by Graham Willoughby

1991-92
NO-TV continues
Student Media Arts Festival
Installation by Les LeVeque
New Revolutions: Glasnost on the Soviet Screen screening

1992-93
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
The United States Super8 Film and Video Festival
Montage 93
La Voz de la Mujer. Contemporary Latina Artists Video Exhibition
Annie Goldson screened her work
Jennifer Montgomery, visiting filmmaker
Film and Video from the New Colony series

1993-94
Filmmaker Roddy Bogawa presented his work
Legendary documentary filmmaker and Academy Award Nominee
D.A. Pennebaker presented his films and spoke about his work
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Blood Sisters: New Films from California presented by filmmaker Greta Snider
Exposure Cafe
Visiting filmmaker Su Friedrich screened her work

1994-95
Dusan Makavejev, visiting filmmaker, screens his work
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Offline series
Regional Rewind: Work by Recipients of the Upstate Media Regrant Program

1995-96
Jody LaFond works in residency program and screens her work
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
NO-TV #15 is screened

1996-97
NO-TV #16 is screened
SMARTfest is screened

1997-98
Dan Reeves lectures and screens his work
Lynn Corcoran screens her work
Landscape/Land Use video show

1998-99
Local filmmaker Duane Parson screens his film, Plunge
Video screening of the recipients of the NYFA Video Fellowships, NO-TV 17
Student Media Arts Festival is screened
Friday Night Film Night premieres

Survey of Film/Television/Video/Still Photography/Electronic Music Activity at State University of New York Campuses.
          John Minkowsky. 1977

Visual Studies Workshop with University Center at Buffalo

A Program in Photographic Studies at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester offers an MFA degree through University Center at Buffalo. The program differs from other photography programs at State University of New York campuses in two ways. First, it allows students utilization of the extensive and varied resources and facilities (which shall be briefly considered below) of the Visual Studies Workshop, an organization distinct and separate from the SUNY system and involved in a variety of educational, research and public service activities in its own right in "the study and understanding of the role of the visual image in our collective cultural experience." Second, the primarily graduate Program is "workshop" oriented, an alternative structure conducive to intensive and field oriented professional training emphasizing problem assessment within the field and an interaction between the activities of a specific workshop and the needs of the profession as a whole.
          Since the Program's inception, concurrent with that of the Visual Studies Workshop in 1969, when a small number of students were admitted on an experimental basis, the Program has grown to seventy-five students participating in numerous and varied workshops. Nathan Lyons, Director of both the Program in Photographic Studies and the Visual Studies Workshop, describes the two-and-a-half year Program as "one of the largest graduate programs in the country which specializes in photography, mixed media and museum studies." In the first year, the student is involved in "various kinds of image formation and transmission"; in the second year, a concentration of work and final project in the student's specific area of interest followed by a six-month internship related to the student's area of concentrated effort. Interacting with four other educational programs at the Workshop, the student becomes one of the Workshop's wide range of resources by way of a work-study system, instructing and/or maintaining and expanding the facilities while professionally developing through training in the real working situations the Program affords.
          The Program, according to Professor Lyons, is "based on the broadest conception of photography as the present technology of the visual language," and the variety of facilities utilized and activities participated in by students bear witness to the Program's extension beyond the realm of traditional concepts of photography. The Visual Studies Workshop's Research Center has a "living museum" with over 8000 books, 250 magazine titles and 100,000 images for research purposes. There are also Conservation and Restoration Programs, a hand bookbindery and Program for Museum Studies, a Travelling Exhibition Program of sixteen shows and a Workshop Gallery, a Media Center with some activity in film, video and slide/tape productions and presentations, and a Publications Program producing the periodical Afterimage and numerous visual books including a Reprint Series in a Print Shop capable of color and a variety of black-and-white and other printing processes, including xerography, thermography and telecopier systems.