New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1980-81. Reports by Film and Media Programs
Total Local Assistance Awards: $30,820,133
Media: $1,170,000
MEDIA PROGRAM
Director: John Giancola
Program Analyst: Arthur Tsuchiya
Media Centers:
Organizations offering two or more distinct programs within their communities, such as production, exhibition and workshops, were supported for operating expenses, co-production awards and salaries.
Downtown Comiminity Television Center; New York City
Electronic Arts Intermix; New York City
Global Village Video Resource Center; New York City
Inter-Media Art Center; Bayville
Ithaca Video Project
Media Bus; Woodstock
Media Study; Buffalo
People's Communication Network; New York City
Portable Channel; Rochester
Video Production:
These awards were granted to producing organizations or to individual artists through co-producing organizations for video production.
Artists Television Network; New York City
$7,000
Asian Cine-Vision; New York City
$4,000
Educational Broadcasting Corporation; New York City
$15,000
Experimental Intermedia Foundation; New York City
$5,800
Experimental Television Center; Owego
$18,375
Film Workshops of Westchester, Irvington
$1,500
Free Media; New York City
$4,000
Haleakala; New York City
$31,740
Media Study; Buffalo
$14,200
Raindance Foundation; New York City
$10,000
Willow Mixed Media
$5,000
Audio Production:
These awards were granted to producing organizations or to individual artists through co-producing organizations for audio production.
El Puerto Rican Playwrights/Actors Workshop; New York City
$1,500
Mabou Mines Development Foundation; New York City
$4,000
National Public Radio; Washington, D.C.
$3,000
Radio Foundation; New York City
$10,000
ZBS Foundation; Ft. Edward
$15,000
Artists-in-Residence at Facility:
Artists-in-Residence at Facility programs exist across the state to assist artists with their work by providing low cost access to sophisticated electronic facilities. Support staff is provided in most cases. Co-production awards and operating expenses were provided.
New York Holographic Foundation; New York City
$20,000
Radio Foundation; New York City
$7,000
Syracuse University, Synapse Video Center
$41,640
Regranting Facility:
Support was provided to state-of-the-art production facilities for the awarding of funds to artists for audio and video projects.
Educational Broadcasting Corporation; New York City
$75,000
Rochester Area Educational Television Association
$65,000
ZBS Foundation; Ft. Edward
$26,210
Exhibition:
Funds for operating expenses, salaries, artists' fees and equipment purchase were provided to organizations and institutions offering exhibition programs for the video or audio art form.
Artists Television Network; New York City
$12,500
Bronx Museum of the Ai
$10,000
Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System; Jamestown$3,000Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York City$17,250
Educational Film Library Association; New York City
$4,000
Film Art Fund; New York City
$10,000
Free Media; New York City
$3,100
Haleakala; New York City
$25,000
Hallwalls; Buffalo
$3,500
Hudson River Museum at Yonkers
$7,500
Institute for Art and Urban Resources; New York City, Queens
$2,500
Intermedia Foundation; Garnerville
$3,000
Mid-Hudson Library System; Poughkeepsie
$3,000
Mid-York Library System; Utica
$2,000
Museum of Modern Art; New York City
$11,750
New Ground Presentations; New York City
$10,000
New York Public Library; Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; New York City
$10,575
New York Visual Anthropology Center; New York City
$1,500
Port Washington Public Library
$5,500
Whitney Museum of American Art; New York City
$10,000
Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement; Albany
$1,250
Arts Programming For Television:
Arts Programming for Television awards were granted to media artists who have conceived a unique approach to another art form such as theatre, dance or music, through the sponsorship of the following organizations. These awards supported artists' fees, equipment rental and editing costs.
Byrd Hoffman Foundation; New York City
$45,000
Other Theatre; New York City
$45,000
Service Projects:
Funds for operating expenses and salaries were provided to organizations and institutions serving the unique needs of the media field.
Audio Independents; New York City
$5,000
Center for New Art Activities; New York City
$2,000
Center for the Study of Filmed History; New York City
$3,000
Clearinghouse for Arts Information; New York City
Experimental Intermedia Foundation; New York City
Foundation for Independent Video and Film; New York City
Haleakala; New York City
Independent Cinema Artists and Producers; New York City
Independent Medium; New York City
Kineholistics Foundation; New York City
$3,000
Media Alliance; Buffalo
$9,268
Radio Foundation; New York City
$7,000
Telicommunity; Woodbury
$3,000
Video Rainbow; Hartsdale
$750
Women Make Movies; New York City
Operating Expenses for Facility:
Collaborative Projects; New York City
$1,000
Experimental Television Center; Owego
$28,000
Harvestworks; New York City
$4,000
Locus Communications; New York City
$22,808
New Wilderness Foundation; New York City
$7,000
Pacifica Foundation; New York City
$20,000
Young Filmakers Foundation; New York City
$55,000
Workshops:
Support for artists' fees was awarded to organizations providing the artist and the public with occasions for learning the new media crafts.
Electronic Body Arts; Albany
$2,500
Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Center; New York City
$4,000
Frederick Douglass, Creative Arts Center; New York City
$4,000
Port Washington Public Library
$5,000
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester
$15,000
Women's Interart Center; New York City
$10,000
Young Filmakers Foundation; New York City
$5,500
Advisory Panelists:
Mary Byrne, Executive Director, Visualscope TV; New York City, 1980-82
Lynn Corcoran, Independent Video Producer; Buffalo, 1981-82
Juan Downey, Independent Video Producer; New York City, 1980-82
Shalom Gorewitz, Video Artist; New York City, 1980-82
Larry Josephson, Executive Director, Radio Foundation; New York City, 1980-81
Joan Lapp, TV Producer, Department of Commerce; Schenectady, 1980-81
Daniel Mack, Professor, Media Studies Program, New School for Social Research; New York City, 1980-82
Sherry Miller, Co-Director, Experimental Television Center; Newark Valley, 1981-82
John Minkowsky, Electronic Arts Curator, Media Study; Buffalo, 1980-82
Marquita Pool, Associate Producer, CBS Evening News; New York City, 1980-81
Dale Riehl, Development Manager, Public TV Station WPBT; New York City, 1980-81
Gregory Shifrin, Independent Radio Producer, Director, ZBS Foundation; Fort Edward 1981-82
Joan Shigekawa, Director, New Medium; New York City, 1980-81
George Stoney, Professor of Film and Television, Department of Film and TV, New York University; New York City, 1980-82
Arthur Tsuchiya, Director, Media Center, Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester, 1980-81
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New York State Council on the Arts. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1980-81. Reports by Film and Media Programs. New York State Council on the Arts. 1981.
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New York State Council on the Arts Media Program annual report 1980–81 records total local assistance awards of $30,820,133 with $1,170,000 allocated to media; program staff include Director John Giancola and Program Analyst Arthur Tsuchiya. The report itemizes grants by category—Media Centers, Video and Audio Production, Artists-in-Residence, Regranting Facility, Exhibition, Arts Programming for Television, Service Projects, Facility operating expenses and Workshops—and lists funded organizations and award amounts (examples: Educational Broadcasting Corporation $75,000; Syracuse University Synapse Video Center $41,640; Haleakala $31,740). Advisory panelists are listed with affiliations and appointment years (1980–82 and 1980–81).
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