- Peter Kubelka People
Peter Kubelka is an independent filmmaker since 1952 and a multifaceted artist and theoretician active in architecture, literature, music, painting and cuisine. In 1964 he co-founded the Austrian Film Museum and served as its curator for many decades; he is co-founder of the Anthology Film Archives in New York City and became professor in film and video at the Frankfurt School of Fine Arts in 1978, serving as Rector from 1985-88 and extending his title to Professor of Film and Cuisine. He has lectured worldwide over the past 40 Years, was awarded the Austrian State Prize for his lifes work, and created frame-by-frame shorts between 1956 and 1960 including Adebar, Schwechater and Arnulf Rainer; Alexander Horwath cites him as a major cinematheque founder and archivist.
- Tracking Video Art: Image Processing as a Genre Bibliography
Lucinda Furlong, Curatorial Assistant in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Film and Video Department, traces the emergence of image processing as a distinct video-art genre from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s; she examines terminology, aesthetic debates, and the modernist and formalist impulses that shaped the work. The text documents early tool-builders and artists (Dan Sandin, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Eric Siegel, Stephen Beck, Bill Etra, Steve Rutt, Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe), key technologies (video synthesizers, Sandin Image Processor, Rutt-Etra, Moog, Z-Grass), institutions (Whitney Museum, Radical Software, Experimental Television Center, SUNY Binghamton, University of Illinois Circle Campus) and funding developments including a $50,000 NYSCA grant to Hocking's Center.
- Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents The Moving Image in Space: Public Funding and the Installation Form Bibliography
The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funded production and exhibition spaces for film and video installations, increasing state support in the early 1970s and moving media art from alternative venues into museums. Institutions cited include the Everson Museum (early 1970s video curator), the Whitney (video exhibitions from 1971, Re/Visions 1979, Nam June Paik retrospective 1982) and MoMA (Projects 1971, video department 1974); artists and technologies ranged from 1960s avant-garde closed-circuit and multi-monitor work to later interactive and multicultural installations such as The Erl King (1986) and Color Schemes (1990).
- Electronic Arts Intermix: Statements (1975, 1982) Groups
Electronic Arts Intermix is presented (1975) as a New York not-for-profit supporting artists in electronic media; it operates the Artists Videotape Resource for distribution and editing/post-production and lists Howard Wise (President), John Trayna (Director) and Flora Meyer (Assistant); funding is from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. A 1982 statement by Howard Wise traces EAI origins to the Howard Wise Gallery and Nam June Paik exhibitions, cites Sony's 1967–68 portable television as pivotal, notes over 225 programs in the catalogue, and identifies artist-developed hardware and a 3 1/4-inch editing facility serving about 300 artist/producers annually.
- Videotape: Video Design and Modification Bibliography
Videotape: Video Design and Modification - George Brown. 1977. Filmmakers Newsletter. June 1977. George Brown, video design
- Dara Birnbaum People
Dara Birnbaum is an internationally recognized video artist who received the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award, fellowships from Princeton University and special recognition from Harvard University. Her work has been exhibited at Documenta, the Whitney Biennial, the Carnegie International, MoMA New York and Centre Georges Pompidou, and has appeared on broadcast television, MTV and in public spaces such as Grand Central Station. Her work is held in museum collections including MoMA and SFMOMA; she served as juror of the 2002 Video Kunst-preis and has held teaching fellowships and posts at Princeton.