Publication Type | Book |
Source | (1988) |
Keywords | groups |
Total Aid to Localities: $48,404,936, Media: $1,570,000 (1987-88)
MEDIA PROGRAM
Director: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson (until February, 1988)
Acting Director: Arthur Tsuchiya
Program Analyst: Jerry Lindahl
In 1987-88, the Media Program received over 500 requests from 160 different organizations for support of both organizational activities and individual productions throughout the State. Of its total allocation of $1,570,000 more than 25% ($400,897) was earmarked for productions by individual artists and independent documentary producers.
Within its twin priorities of production and audience development, the Media Program simultaneously sought to address the needs of emerging, minority and upstate artists and organizations. A grant was made to Black Filmmaker Foundation to help underwrite its 10th Anniversary fundraising events, with the goal of strengthening this important film and video distributor. Support was given to the World Institute of Black Communications to plan a major exhibition of the work of black video makers. A new Special Project, sponsored by Women Make Movies, aimed at the double purpose of making an advanced new video facility (at Starrett City in Brooklyn) available to artists while at the same time training minority women in video production techniques. Film News Now was awarded $20,364 to complete its "Minority Action Project" report on the current status of media makers of color in the State. With this grant, Media Program commitment to this important project totals over $40,000.
Exhibition activities continued to represent the largest portion of the Media Program budget (after production), reflecting the Program's on-going commitment to developing new audiences for video, audio and radio, especially in under-served communities throughout the State. Several new applicants, among them the Arts Council of Wyoming County, Crandall Library (Glens Falls), and Cornell Cinema (Ithaca) were awarded grants to establish video exhibition programs.
Another new applicant, the New York City Hall of Science in Queens, was awarded a first-time grant for a major audio installation (by Yoshi Wada) to celebrate the re-opening of the Museum's Great Hall. Broadcast TV was represented by WNET's "New Television" series, which is both broadcast in New York City and offered free of charge to New York State public television stations for rebroadcast upstate. The Media Program will continue to support efforts to identify, educate, and entertain new audiences with the best in video and audio art.
A wide range of activities intended to assist, inform, and train media artists was supported through the Services to the Field category. Highlights in this category include: a second-year grant to the newly formed Association of Independents in Radio, an organization which represents and provides services to independent radio producers; awards to the Experimental Intermedia Foundation to explore the use of video projection systems at seven presenting sites in Lower Manhattan; and to Hallwalls in Buffalo to assemble and exhibit the 1988 edition of "Infermental," an international video "magazine" in tape cassette form.
The Media Regrant category, a very effective way to both increase the amount of money available to artists for production and to identify and encourage the work of upstate emerging artists, continued to grow last year. The Niagara Council of the Arts received support for four media regrant awards to local artists; the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA) was awarded funding for its regrant program for Western New York video artists; a regrant program at Rochester's Visual Studies Workshop was
established with a new grant; Funding Exchange was funded for its regrant program to support work in alternative issue-oriented media; and continuing support was made for regrant programs at Educational Broadcasting Corporation (WNET), the Checkerboard Foundation, and Writers Guild of America. These awards leveraged an extra $54,500 in outside matching funds given by the organizations directly to artists for the production of new work.
General Operating Support was awarded to nine organizations which continue to offer on-going services of significant importance to the media art field. Among them, Downtown Community TV Center, Asian Cinevision, Locus Communications, Media Alliance, Media Bus, Harvestworks, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, and Film News Now. The Program's first three-year multi-year award was made to Owego's Experimental Television Center for its unique and valuable services to video artists.
Awards in the Writing on Media Art category went to three established writersóBerenice Reynaud, Micki McGee, and David Trend. A fourth award was made to Haleakala to commission six articles on media art by major writers from other fields. This project was undertaken to expand the boundaries of discourse in critical writing on media art.
Other highlights of the year included a first time grant to Albany's WAMC-FM to host a conference centering on public radio and its place in the arts. The State Office of Cultural Education is a co-sponsor of the conference. Bread and Roses Cultural Project received a grant for its touring video installation and single-channel exhibit, "Between the Lines," addressing "social, political, cultural and ecological issues in ways that provoke critical thought without abandoning art for polemics or propaganda." New York University was funded to construct a small temporary listening room as part of its major symposium on the work of Orson Welles. The listening room will exhibit all Welles' major radio works of the 1930's and '40's, the first time all this work will be heard together. Film/Video Arts received support for a residency for seminal film and video artist Shirley Clarke. As part of the residency, Ms. Clarke offered workshops for emerging film and video matters at F/VA.
The coming year will see continued efforts by the Media Program to strengthen the field in three significant areas: by expanding audiences across the State through increased exhibition and promotional activities; by continuing to support the work of individual artists through production awards, regrant programs and artist residencies; and by increased outreach efforts to emerging artists, upstate artists, and artists of color.
In addition, in extending its commitment to both artistic excellence and technical development, the Program will encourage the exploration of high quality small format equipment for artists' use, along with the development of systems to expand interformat compatibility, both to enhance the continuing role of media arts centers and to increase the flexibility and options of media artists in producing their work.
The Program, while continuing its tradition of supporting video and audio as distinct art forms, will begin to explore how they can combine with other arts disciplines, and how the media can expand the availability of the arts to more of the State's people. The Program will also continue to encourage the development of a comprehensive plan for preserving and archiving video and audio tapes, a need which is made especially urgent by the inexorable decay of important work which is vital to the history and heritage of the field.
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Earth Environmental Group; Manhattan
Film/Video Arts; Manhattan
Haleakala/ The Kitchen; Manhattan
Library Action Committee of Corona-East Elmhurst/ Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center; Queens
New York Hall of Science; Queens
St. Augustine's Center; Buffalo
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester
WSLU-FM; Canton
Distribution:
American Federation of the Arts; Manhattan
Black Filmmaker Foundation; Manhattan
Electronic Arts Intermix; Manhattan
Haleakala/ The Kitchen; Manhattan
New York Foundation for the Arts; Manhattan
Women Make Movies; Manhattan
Equipment Purchase
Black Filmmaker Foundation; Manhattan
Exit Art; Manhattan
Experimental Television Center; Owego
Harvestworks; Manhattan
Squeaky Wheel; Buffalo
Exhibition:
Alternative Center for International Arts; Manhattan
American Museum of the Moving Image; Queens
Amigos del Museo del Barrio/El Museo del Barrio; Manhattan
Artists Space
Arts Council for Wyoming County; Perry
Asia Society; Manhattan
Black Filmmaker Foundation; Manhattan
Bread and Roses Cultural Project; Manhattan
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA); Buffalo
Center for New Art Activities; Manhattan
Center for Photography at Woodstock
Channel L Working Group; Manhattan
Collaborative Projects/ COLAB; Manhattan
Cornell University/ Herbert R Johnson Museum; Ithaca
Crandall Library; Glens Falls
East End Arts and Humanities Council; Riverhead
Educational Broadcasting Corporation; Manhattan
Exit Art; Manhattan
Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn/ Rotunda Gallery
Global Village Resource Center; Manhattan
Haleakala/The Kitchen; Manhattan
Hallwalls; Buffalo
Institute for Art and Urban Resources/ P.S. 1/ The Clocktower; Queens
International Center for Photography; Manhattan
Mid-Hudson Library System; Poughkeepsie
Museum of the American Indian; Manhattan
Museum of Modern Art; Manhattan
New York Hall of Science; Queens
New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; Manhattan
New York University; Manhattan
Niagara Council of the Arts Niagara Falls
Olean Public Library
Port Washington Public Library
Raindance Foundation; Manhattan
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy
Staten Island Children's Museum
Tompkins Square Arts Festival; Clayton
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester
WNYC Foundation; Manhattan
White Plains Cable TV Access
Whitney Museum of American Art; Manhattan
General Operating Support:
Asian Cine-Vision; Manhattan
Downtown Community Television Center; Manhattan
Experimental Television Center; Owego
Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan
Harvestworks; Manhattan
Locus Communications; Manhattan
Media Alliance; Manhattan
Media Bus; Woodstock
Institutional Development:
Black Filmmaker Foundation; Manhattan
Preservation/ Archival Conservation:
Arts Resources in Collaboration; Manhattan
Electronic Arts Intermix; Manhattan
Film Art Fund/ Anthology Film Archives; Manhattan
Regrant Program:
Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA); Buffalo
Checkerboard Foundation
Educational Broadcasting Corporation; Manhattan
Funding Exchange
Haleakala/The Kitchen; Manhattan
Niagara Council of the Arts; Niagara Falls
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester
Writers Guild of America East; Manhattan
Services to the Field:
Alternative Media Information Center; Manhattan
Association of Independents in Radio; Manhattan
Cornell University/ Herbert E Johnson Museum; Ithaca
Crandall Library; Glens Falls
Electronic Arts Intermix; Manhattan
Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan
Film News Now Foundation; Manhattan
Film/Video Arts; Manhattan
Foundation for Independent Video and Film/FIVF; Manhattan
Haleakala/The Kitchen; Manhattan
Hallwalls; Buffalo
Local TV; East Hampton
Media Alliance; Manhattan
Mid-York Library System; Utica
Museum of the American Indian; Manhattan
National Alliance-Media Arts; Staten Island
New Radio and Performing Arts; Brooklyn
New Wilderness Foundation; Manhattan
New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; Manhattan
Parabola Arts Foundation; Manhattan
Raindance Foundation; Manhattan
Squeaky Wheel; Buffalo
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester
WAMC; Albany
WSLU-FM; Canton
World Institute of the Black Community/ CEBA/ Community Excellence To Black Audiences; Manhattan
pecial Projects:
American Museum of the Moving Image; Queens
Women Make Movies; Manhattan
Workspace:
Center for Electronic Music; Manhattan
Roulette Extramedia Resources; Manhattan
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester
Writing on Media Art:
Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan
Haleakala/The Kitchen; Manhattan
Visual Studies Workshop; Rochester
Women Make Movies; Manhattan $4,000
Advisory Panelists:
Ms. Joyce Bolinger, Executive Director, Center for New TV; Chicago, IL
Ms. Shu Lea Gheang, Artist; Manhattan
Ms. Linda Fisher, Artist; Brooklyn
Mr. Matthew Geller, Video Artist; Manhattan
Mr. Louis Daniel Giansante, Independent Radio Producer; Manhattan
Ms. Chris Hill, Video Artist, Video Curator, Hallwalls; Buffalo
Mr. Timothy Kennedy, Professor of Communications; Ithaca
Ms. Annea Lockwood, Audio Artist, Composer; Crompound
Mr. Thomas Lopez, Independent Radio, Producer; Fort Edward
Ms. Maxine Delores, Moffett, Independent Media Producer, Educator; Brooklyn
Ms. Rita Myers, Video Artist; Manhattan
Mr. Phill Niblock, Intermedia Artist, Experimental Intermedia Foundation; Manhattan
Mr. Joseph Steinmetz, Independent Producer, Lockport Community Cable Commission; Lockport
Ms. Helen Thorington, Independent Radio Producer, New Radio and Performing Arts; Brooklyn
Mr. Edin Velez, Video Artist; Manhattan
Ms. Robin White, Executive Director, Media Alliance; Manhattan
Mr. Tony Whitfield, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Manhattan