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Media Center at Visual Studies Workshop

Date
1973
Assistance from the Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts for costs associated with the Media Center at Visual Studies Workshop; and for visiting media artists.
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"Media Center at Visual Studies Workshop." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/media-center-visual-studies-workshop.

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