| Publication Type | Book |
| Source | (1987) |
| Keywords | groups |
Total Aid to Localities: $44,300,000, Media: $1,512,129 (1986-87)
MEDIA PROGRAM
Director: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson
Program Analysts: Eugene Matta (until July 1986), Jerry Lindahl, Arthur Tsuchiya
The Media Program entered fiscal year 1986-87, not so much with different objectives and assumptions from the previous year, but rather with the goal of improving upon earlier efforts. The program advanced production and audience development as priorities with the following assumptions and objectives: 1) the field is expanding but it is far from being established securelyóit is fraught with complex questions including those caused by rapidly developing technology as well as distribution and marketing problems; 2) it is vital that we seek shared leadership with the field; 3) it is important to maintain the balance between support for the larger, established and the smaller, developing organizations; and 4) individual artists, both established and emerging, should continue to be assisted to create new works.
As the program renewed its commitment to assume a leadership role in the media field and to evaluate its role, applicants were invited to conceive and review their own projects in conjunction with their assessments of the field including its accomplishments, failures and needs as well as future direction. The program stressed the importance of demonstrating a clear aesthetic and conceptual grasp of video arid audio as art; of going beyond addressing needs to the question of artistic quality/standards; and of showing sensitive and imaginative ways of developing audiences, always mindful of social and cultural diversity. In response to ever-increasing needs and demands of the field, and in light of the budgetary constraints, the Program conducted a more comparative review of applications than before.
In 1986-87, the Media Program awarded a total of $1,512,129 to 87 organizations for 150 projects, including 31 production awards administered by the Individual Artists Program. Reflecting our strong conviction that production is vital for the development of the field, the Program expended $400,129, a little over 26% of its total allocation, for production of individual artists' works through sponsoring organizations. See the Individual Artists Program for a listing of media artists and projects.
In addition, regrant awards increased from $29,000 in 1985-86 to $54,000 last year with two new programs in Manhattan and two upstate, adding over $100,000 to the independent production pool in New York State. Every regrant program must be matched dollar for dollar.
The Program continued its support of exhibitions (about 21% of the total budget); projects designed for services to the field, including distribution (17%); general operating expenses (15%); equipment and workspace access, including production and post-production services and equipment purchase (10 %); special projects (4 %); and artists-in-residence (3 %). Finally, the Program awarded grants to four writers, ranging from $1,500 to $3,500, under the "Writing On Media Art" category which is designed to encourage critical writing. In advancing audience development, the Program stressed the importance of cultural and aesthetic diversity in American society, upstate development, and experimental as well as major projects. Squeaky Wheel, a new association of Buffalo area media makers, received a grant of $2,000 to present an exhibition entitled "Narrowcasting: Native American and Eastern European Video." The Program supported "Democracy in Communication," ($10,000) a travelling exhibition of independent video and film produced recently in Central and South America, and curated by New York independent producer, Karen Ranucci. The Program awarded $25,000 to the Museum of Modem Art toward an exhibition, "From Day to Night: Installations and Videotapes by Bill Viola." As the second major retrospective of an individual video artist after that of Nam June Paik at the Whitney Museum in 1982, the show marks a sigriificant event in the field.
If the Program considers the individual artists vital for the development of the field, it also recognizes the importance of assisting organizations that present media activities and support artists. The Program made special grants to organizations that are at a critical juncture in their development and needed one-time assistance. A grant of $11,000 went to the Global Village, a fifteen year old, pioneering media center, to help institutionalize development as an on-going, high priority activity. Another grant of $10,000 went to Squeaky Wheel in Buffalo to help strengthen its administrative structure. Finally, an award of $8,000 was made to be matched dollar for dollar to the newly organized Association of Independents in Radio (AIR).
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Art Awareness; Lexington
Bronx Museum of the Arts $5,000
Global Village Resource Center; Manhattan $7,000
Emily Lowe Gallery/ Hofstra University; Hempstead $7,600
Library Action Committee of Corona-East Elmhurst/ Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center; Queens $4,000
St. Augustine's Center; Buffalo $7,000
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $2,500
WNYC Foundation; Manhattan $8,000 EQUIPMENT PURCHASE
Catskill Center for Photography; Woodstock $1,000
Center for Community Studies; Manhattan $4,600
Experimental Television Center; Owego $3,855
Hallwalls; Buffalo $14,500
Queens Council on the Arts $4,000
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $6,000
EXHIBITITION
Altermedia; Staten Island $2,000
Alternative Media Information Center; Manhattan $4,000
American Museum of the Moving Image; Queens $9,200
Artists Space; Manhattan $8,000
Artmusic; Brooklyn $7,500
Barnard College; Manhattan $1,850
Black Filmmaker Foundation; Manhattan $4,000
Black Maria $3,000
Bronx Museum of the Arts $10,000
Catskill Center for Photography; Woodstock $2,500
Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA); Buffalo $4,842
Center for New Art Activities; Manhattan $5,000
Channel L Working Group; Manhattan $7,000
Council on the Arts for Cortland $5,000
Educational Broadcasting Corporation; Manhattan $25,000
Exit Art; Manhattan $3,000
Franklin Furnace Archive; Manhattan $2,500
Friends of the Davis Center; Manhattan $6,000
Global Village Resource Center; Manhattan $15,000
Haleakala/ The Kitchen; Manhattan $34,000
Hallwalls; Buffalo $11,000
Institute for Art and Urban Resources/PS 1; Queens $8,000
International Center for Photography; Manhattan $9,000
Katonah Gallery $3,500
Mid-Hudson Library System; Poughkeepsie $4,000
Museum of Broadcasting; Manhattan $4,000
Museum of Modern Art; Manhattan $33,500
New Radio and Performing Arts; Brooklyn $9,000
New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; Manhattan $2,860
Olean Public Library $2,962
Raindance Foundation; Manhattan $11,800
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy $3,000
Squeaky Wheel; Buffalo $2,000
Syracuse University $3,000
United Block Association; Manhattan $1,000
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $11,000
White Plains Cable TV Access $3,500
Whitney Museum of American Art; Manhattan $18,000
Women Make Movies; Manhattan $10,000
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
Asian Cine-Vision; Manhattan $16,300
Downtown Community Television Center; Manhattan $55,100
Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan $13,000
Experimental Television Center; Owego $32,800
Harvestworks; Manhattan $20,000
Inter-Media Art Center; Huntington $20,000
Locus Communications; Manhattan $34,400
Media Alliance; Manhattan $24,000
Media Bus; Woodstock $10,000
PRODUCTION/ POSTPRODUCTION SERVICES
Electronic Alts Intermix; Manhattan $7,900
Film/Video Arts; Manhattan $50,000
Raindance Foundation; Manhattan $25,000
Roulette Intermedium; Manhattan $4,000
REGRANT PROGRAM
Checkerboard Foundation $12,000
Educational Broadcasting Corporation; Manhattan $20,000
Niagara Council of the Arts; Niagara Falls $6,000
Writers Guild of America East; Manhattan $13,500
SERVICES TO THE FIELD
Alternative Media Information Center; Manhattan $14,636
American Federation of the Arts; Manhattan $6,000
Association of Independents in Radio; Manhattan $8,000
Black Filmmaker Foundation; Manhattan $4,000
Camera News; Manhattan $2,000
Electronic Arts Intermix; Manhattan $26,500
Film News Now Foundation; Manhattan $4,000
Film/Video Arts; Manhattan $5,000
Foundation for Independent Video and Film; Manhattan $37,500
Giorno Poetry Systems; Manhattan $2,000
Haleakala/ The Kitchen; Manhattan $45,000
International Film Seminars; Manhattan $3,500
Media Alliance; Manhattan $10,000
Museum of the American Indian; Manhattan $2,425
National Alliance Media Arts; Staten Island $4,000
New Wilderness Foundation; Manhattan $3,000
New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; Manhattan $12,000
Niagara Council of the Arts; Niagara Falls $3,000
Parabola Arts Foundation; Manhattan $12,000
Port Washington Public Library $17,450
Video Repetorie; Manhattan $6,000
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $7,500
WSLU-FM; Canton $5,000
Women Make Movies; Manhattan $12,870
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Bronx Council on the Arts $10,000
Film/Video Arts; Manhattan $8,000
Global Village Resource Center; Manhattan $11,000
Mid-York Library System; Utica $3,000
Squeaky Wheel; Buffalo $10,000
Staten Island Council on the Arts; Staten Island $8,000
Whitney Museum of American Art; Manhattan $7,350
WORKSPACE
Samaya Foundation; Manhattan $5,000
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $7,000
Women's Interart Center; Manhattan $24,000
WRITING ON MEDIA ART
Black Filmmaker Foundation; Manhattan $2,000
Foundation for Independent Video and Film; Manhattan $3,500
Port Washington Public Library $3,000
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester $1,500
Advisory Panelists:
Mr. Peer D. Bode, Video Artist, Experimental Television Center; Owego
Mr. Luis Cancel, Director, Bronx Museum of the Arts; Bronx
Mr. Tony Cokes, Video Artist; Manhattan
Mr. Collis Davis, Jr., Independent Producer; Brooklyn
Mr. Matthew Geller, Video Artist; Manhattan
Ms. Ronnie Geist, Administrator, Producer, Women's Interart Center; Manhattan
Ms. Julie M. Gustafson, Independent Producer, Global Village Video Center; Manhattan
Ms. Jean Haynes, Film/Video Librarian, Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System; Jamestown
Ms. Barbara London Video Curator, The Museum of Modern Art; Manhattan
Ms. Rita Myers, Video Artist; Manhattan
Mr. Phill Niblock, Intermedia Artist, Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan
Mr. Stephen L. Rabin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Educational Film Center;
Annandale, VA
Ms. Helen Thorington, Independent Radio Producer, New Radio and Performing Arts; Brooklyn
Alternates:
Mr. Louis Daniel Giansante, Independent Radio Producer; Manhattan
Ms. Chris Hill, Video Artist, Video Curator, Hallwalls; Manhattan
Mr. Joe Steinmetz, Independent Producer, Lockport Community Cable Commission; Lockport
Ms. Robin White, Director, Media Alliance; Manhattan