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New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1982-83. Reports by Film and Media Programs

Author
New York State Council on the Arts
Publisher
New York State Council on the Arts
Place
New York, NY
Type
Annual Report
Subjects
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ETC archive
ETC1763
Group dates
1960 -
Group location
New York City
Group
New York State Council on the Arts

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Total Local Assistance Awards: $32,499,000
Media: $1,200,000

MEDIA PROGRAM

Director: John Giancola

Program Analyst: Arthur Tsuchiya

Media Program 
The Media Program was 11 years old in 1982-83. Its constituents have been uniquely concerned with the production and exhibition of the electronic arts. Because the field is "emerging," the policy of the program over the last few years has been to spread support over a diverse spectrum of activities, allowing for achievement at various levels. Of the program's allocation of $1,270,000 (which includes $70,000 in federal funds), $293,247 was directed toward production and post-production of audio and video art, documentary, and narrative projects. Substantial levels of support were awarded for exhibition, distribution and services. The program also re-initiated substantial regrant support for institutions to match Council funds on behalf of individual artists. Programs that bring artists to working facilities were also continued so that artists could have access to specialized tools.

It was the first year of funding of writing on the subject of video art. Thirteen writing awards were made on a broad range of subjects from investigations of new narrative, to histories and genealogies of the video movement itself. It was also the first year for funding preservation in video. It was the final year of funding for the Arts Programming for Television category, with a $50,000 award going to Amoskeag, a collaboration in literature and video between artists Corrine Jacker and Dan Reeves. In the coming years, the program will continue to support collaborations between video arts and other arts through its Media Process funding category.

Artists-in-Residence:
Bronx Museum of the Arts  $8,000

Harvestworks; Manhattan  $3,000

Holographic Film Foundation; Manhattan  $10,000

Museum of Holography; Manhattan  $5,000

Sound Design Assistance; Manhattan  $3,500

Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $6,650

Women's Interart Center; Manhattan $20,000

Equipment Purchase:
Media Study; Buffalo $10,000

Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $5,000

Exhibition:
Amigos del Museo del Barrio; Manhattan $7,500

Artmusic; Brooklyn $2,500

Asian Cine-Vision; Manhattan $5,000

Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association  $3,500

Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System; Jamestown  $3,500

Dance on the Lower East Side; Manhattan  $1,500

Educational Broadcasting Corporation; Manhattan  $17,500

En Foco; Bronx  $2,672

Film Art Fund; Manhattan  $15,500

Foundation for Independent Video and Film; Manhattan  $5,500

Free Media; Manhattan  $3,100

Haleakala; Manhattan $30,000

Hallwalls; Buffalo $5,845

Hudson River Museum at Yonkers $5,000

Institute for Art and Urban Resources; Queens $3,000

Ithaca Video Projects $10,000

Media Study; Buffalo $20,000

Mid-Hudson Library System; Poughkeepsie $5,175

Museum of Modern Art; Manhattan $20,000

Museum of the American Indian; Manhattan $2,500

New York Public Library; Manhattan $1,544

New York Shakespeare Festival; Manhattan $10,000

185 Nassau Street Corporation; Brooklyn  $3,000

Syracuse University  $3,500

Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester  $11,535

Whitney Museum of American Art; Manhattan $12,000

General Operating Support:
Artists Television Network; Manhattan $15,000

Downtown Community Television Center; Manhattan $46,000

Experimental Television Center; Owego $31,000

Global Village Video Resource Center; Manhattan $12,000

Harvestworks; Manhattan  $7,000

Inter-Media Art Center; Bayville $20,000

Locus Communications; Manhattan  $15,000

Media Alliance; Rochester  $13,500

Media Bus; Woodstock  $14,000

New Wilderness Foundation; Manhattan  $7,000

Portable Channel; Rochester  $19,500

Radio Foundation; Manhattan  $12,500

Production--Audio Art:
Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan $7,500

Franklin Furnace Archive; Manhattan $10,500

Mabou Mines Development Foundation; Manhattan $7,500

New Wilderness Foundation; Manhattan $7,000

185 Nassau Street Corporation; Brooklyn $8,000

Pacifica Foundation/WBAI; Manhattan  $8,000

Sound Design Assistance; Manhattan  $10,000

Production--Audio: Documentary and Narrative
New Radio and Performing Arts; Manhattan $4,000

Radio Foundation; Manhattan $6,000

Soundscape Presents; Manhattan $4,021

Production--Cable TV Series:
Center for New Art Activities; Manhattan $8,500

Collaborative Projects; Manhattan  $5,000

Media Bus; Woodstock  $1,500

Production--Video Art:
Collaborative Projects; Manhattan  $12,000

Electronic Arts Intermix; Manhattan $24,300

Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan $8,000

Experimental Television Center; Owego $20,000

Film and Video Workshop; Irvington-on-Hudson  $5,500

Haleakala; Manhattan  $15,000

Ithaca Video Projects  $13,700

Kineholistics Foundation; Manhattan  $10,000

Locus Communications; Manhattan  $13,785

Media Study; Buffalo $20,431

National Academy of Design; Manhattan $10,000

185 Nassau Street Corporation; Brooklyn  $12,000

Performing Artservices; Manhattan $15,000

Production--Video: Documentary and Narrative
Alternative Media Information Center; Manhattan  $6,310

Portable Channel; Rochester  $10,000

Reed and Cannon Company; Manhattan  $18,000

Regrant Programs:
Inter-Media Art Center; Bayville  $13,500

Media Study; Buffalo $25,000

Services to the Field:
Alternative Media Information Center; Manhattan $2,000

Asian Cine-Vision; Manhattan $5,000

Cultural Council Foundation for Future Press; Manhattan $2,500

Electronic Arts Intermix; Manhattan $23,700

Experimental Television Center; Owego $10,000

Foundation for Independent Video and Film; Manhattan $22,000

Haleakala; Manhattan $45,000

Independent Cinema Artists and Producers; Manhattan $5,782

Locus Communications; Manhattan $10,000

Media Alliance; Rochester $2,000

Mid-Hudson Library System; Poughkeepsie  $3,000

Museum of Modem Art; Manhattan   $15,000

New York Foundation for the Arts; Manhattan $5,500

New York Public Library; Manhattan  $10,950

North Bronx Neighborhood Restoration Association $3,200

Port Washington Public Library $27,500

Radio Foundation; Manhattan $2,500

Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $9,000

Young Filmakers Foundation; Manhattan $60,500

Video and Audio Developments in the Arts:
Arts Projects at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery; Manhattan $10,000

Mabou Mines Development Foundation; Manhattan $6,500

Media Study; Buffalo $30,000

Women's Interart Center; Manhattan $83,500

Writing and Video Art:
Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan $3,000

Film Art Fund; Manhattan  $3,500

Franklin Furnace Archive; Manhattan $4,000

Haleakala; Manhattan $5,000

Media Study; Buffalo $3,000

Open Studio; Barrytown $2,500

Port Washington Public Library $3,000

Raindance Foundation; Manhattan $5,000

Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $9,300

Women's Interart Center; Manhattan $2,000

Advisory Panelists:

Ed Bowes, Independent Video Producer; Manhattan

Mary Byrne, Executive Director, Visualscope TV; Manhattan

Lynn Corcoran, Independent Video Producer; Manhattan

Gary Hill, Video Artist; Barrytown

Lillian Katz, Director, Media Services, Port Washington Public Library; Port Washington

Jacqueline Kain, Coordinator, Media Alliance; Manhattan

Shigeko Kubota, Video Artist, Curator, Anthology Film Archives; Manhattan

Mary Lucier, Video Artist; Manhattan

Daniel Mack, Professor, Media Studies Program, New School for Social Research; Manhattan

Sherry Miller, Co-Director, Experimental Television Center; Newark Valley

John Minkowsky, Electronic Arts Curator, Media Study; Buffalo

David Shapiro, Independent Video Producer; Buffalo

Gregory Shifrin, Independent Radio Producer, Director, ZBS Foundation; Fort Edward

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New York State Council on the Arts. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1982-83. Reports by Film and Media Programs. New York State Council on the Arts. 1983.

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