O'Grady, Gerald
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A Description of Media Study/Buffalo Film/Imagemaking Workshop Groups
Founded by Dr. Gerald O'Grady. "Literacy's been with us now since the nineteenth century and is pretty much accepted to be a universal thrust. My own theory is that we should move towards what I call 'mediacy'. It's a political issue; one cannot participate in society unless one can use the channels…
Introduction to The Frontier 1979-1980 Bibliography
The Frontier is a series of 16 programs featuring work by 30 independent film and video makers from Buffalo and Western New York and from Toronto and Southern Ontario, produced by Media Study/Buffalo and broadcast by WNED-TV Channel 17. Lynn Corcoran is named as producer and is said to have selected and assembled the programs. Publication of the tabloid was funded by a Canada Council grant to the Toronto Super‑Eight Film Festival, and program support came from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and WNED membership.
Sound Track for a Tele-vision in The New Television: A Public/Private Art Bibliography
Based on "Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television" organized by Fred Barzyk, Douglas Davis, Gerald O'Grady and Willard Van Dyke for the Museum of Modern Art. Categories include the aesthetics of television; support structure; the international setting; politics, philos…