Hallwalls

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• Hallwalls: Programs and Activities (1997, 1998) Groups

  Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, founded by Charles Clough and Robert Longo in 1974 in Buffalo, NY, received 1977 NYSCA funding for video exhibition and documentation and has presented work by over 7,000 artists. Kathryn High served as technical director 1979–82 and Edmund Cardoni is listed as executive director; Sara Kellner is named Visual Arts Director c.1997 and Pamela Susan Hawkins authored an overview in 1998. Hallwalls moved to the Tri-Main Center in January 1993 and developed an 11,000-square-foot facility with three galleries, a cinema, performance theater, video library, editing suite and a Vito Acconci–designed viewing room; it published Consider the Alternatives in 1996 and maintained a 1997 video collection listing.

• New York State Council on the Arts Chronology

  NYS Legislature creates the New York State Council on the Arts. NYSCA receives initial funding of $450,000

• American Federation of Arts Chronology

  New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds independent film tours at American Federation of Arts, New York City

• New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1969-70: A summary of Council activities 1960-69 Groups

  Excerpt from the New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1969–1970 summarizing Council activities 1960–69; documents the Council's creation in 1960–61 with an initial $50,000 study grant and lists annual state appropriations and National Council on the Arts grants through 1968–69. Describes statewide surveys and local meetings, the initiation and expansion of Touring, Traveling Exhibitions, Technical Assistance, Special Projects, Film, Museum Aid, Ghetto Arts and Festival programs, and the establishment of American Dance Theatre and the Young Artists Program; notes collaborations with SUNY, museums, schools, and other cultural institutions and specific grants, publications, exhibitions, tours, and residencies.

• Checkerboard Foundation Chronology

  Checkerboard Foundation recieves matching funds from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for video artists' fellowships

• Media Buff: Media Art of Buffalo Being In Between Bibliography

  Survey situating Buffalo as a mediating center between New York City and the wider world and documenting its independent media community centered at SUNY Buffalo's Center for Media Study, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and the collective Squeaky Wheel (founded 1985). The text profiles materialist practitioners (Paul Sharits, Hollis Frampton, Tony Conrad, Woody and Steina Vasulka) investigating film/video materiality; postmodern performers and installation artists (Barbara Lattanzi, Julie Zando) addressing spectator relations; and Squeaky Wheel's access initiatives (one Sony camcorder, Super 8, Video 8, Pixelvision toy camera, Axlegrease cable show, work-in-progress sessions). It also notes institutional support including the New York State Council on the Arts and exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, and references programming and criticism from Media Alliance, Chris Hill, Gerald O'Grady, and others.