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University-Wide Celebration of the Arts

Date
1974

April 26-29, 1974 at State University of New York College at Fredonia. "University-Wide Celebration of the Arts". Participation by Film and Video Departments of the SUNY system.

Included demonstration of the Paik Abe Video Synthesizer by Ralph Hocking of the Experimental Television Center and Binghamton University.

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"University-Wide Celebration of the Arts." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/node/6247.

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Held April 26-29, 1974 at the State University of New York College at Fredonia; titled University-Wide Celebration of the Arts, the event involved participation by Film and Video Departments of the SUNY system. The program included a demonstration of the Paik Abe Video Synthesizer presented by Ralph Hocking, affiliated with the Experimental Television Center and Binghamton University.

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