- 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.
- Media Alliance Chronology
Media Alliance, New York City, receives funding to organize a professional network of video artists and media arts organizations
- Media Alliance Chronology
Media Alliance, New York City, is formed
- New York Upstate Meeting of Non-Profit Media Groups Chronology
Meeting of non-profit media groups convened March 9, 1979 at Synapse Video Center in Syracuse to continue discussions about forming an organization eventually known as Media Alliance; attendees included representatives from museums, university media centers, community video projects and public broadcasters, including Everson Museum, Experimental Television Center, Vasulka Corporation, Visual Studies Workshop, WCNY-TV and WXXI-TV. A subsequent meeting in New York City involved John Reilly, Mary MacArthur, Leandra Strobing, Tom Morey, Willoughby Sharp, Davidson Gigliotti, John Sanborn, Michael Rothbard, Kathie Bodily and Liza Bear representing Global Village, The Kitchen and Inter-Media Art Center.
- An Alliance for the Media Arts in America: A Report on the formation of the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers and its Founding Conference in Boulder, Colorado, May 29-31, 1980 Bibliography
History of the formation of NAMAC; upstate New York members included Portable Channel, Media Study/Buffalo, Synapse Video Center
- 1 2 3 4: A Position Statement on Upstate Media Development Bibliography
Position paper to the New York State Council on the Arts arguing that Upstate New York’s media arts environment differs from New York City and requires targeted State support; it links regional isolation, access to camcorders and editing equipment, and public access cable with cultural heterogeneity and development. The paper proposes a dedicated NYSCA Upstate Media funding category with initiatives including entry-level publications, equipment redistribution, artists’ residencies, small-scale public access TV, organizational development, video rental libraries, micro-grants ($200–500), and encouragement of entry-level videomaking. It also recommends a one-person NYSCA satellite office in Buffalo, Rochester, Binghamton, or Syracuse and expanded Media Bureau travel guidelines to support intra-State conferences and visiting-artist programs.