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Notes on the Rutt/Etra Bibliography

A brief overview of antecedents.

Notes on Video as an Artistic Medium 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…

Notes on Videotape and TV Bibliography

Kenneth Dominick examines videotape and television practice as processes that reshape inner and outer experience; he cites Paul Ryan in Radical Software (summer 1970) and frames videotape as feedback rather than mere transmission. He links the medium to Allegheny College and the Experimental Television Center's temporary presence in Meadville, noting that Allegheny will briefly gain television-producing capability. He argues for decentralization through portable recording-and-playback hardware and independent regional centers to counter network and cable control, and describes videotape's perceptual and affective effects.

Notes on William Wegman Bibliography

Notes Toward a History of Image-Processed Video; Eric Siegel, Stephen Beck, Dan Sandin, Steve Rutt, Bill and Louise Etra Bibliography

Survey of the emergence of image-processing video as a genre situates its origins in the late 1960s alternative television movement and the pages of Radical Software; it describes tool types (raster manipulators, colorizers/mixers, synthesizers) and cites the Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer, the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, Beck's Direct Video Synthesizer, Sandin's Image Processor, and Siegel's colorizer and prototype synthesizer. The article profiles Eric Siegel (built colorizers, prototype synthesizer, sold ~10 colorizers, later formed Siegel Electronics), Stephen Beck (NCET residency, completed synthesizer 1971, BeckTech), Dan Sandin (Image Processor finished by 1973, gave plans away, ~$3,000 Illinois Arts Council grant), and Bill and Louise Etra with Steve Rutt (built raster-scan device, WNET TV Lab support, ~20 machines produced; legal settlement ended marketing).

Notes Toward a History of Image-Processed Video: Steina and Woody Vasulka Bibliography

Ed.'s note: This is the second in a series of articles on imageprocessed video. The first article examined the contributions of Eric Siegel, Stephen Beck, Steve Rutt Dan Sandin, and Bill and Louise Etra to the development of electronic imaging devices [see Afterimage, Vol. 11, Nos. 1 & 2 (Summer 198…

Notes Toward a History of Image-Processed Video: Steina and Woody Vasulka Bibliography

Notes Toward a History of Image-Processed Video: Steina and Woody Vasulka Steina and Woody Vasulka

Nurit Bar-Shai People

Nurit Bar-Shai is an inter-media artist who composes video and interactive telematic installations and streams locally. Her work has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum; the OK-Center, Linz; The National Art Center, Tokyo; SESI Gallery, Sao Paulo; Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro; and The Center for Digital Art, Israel. She received Prix Ars Electronica 2007 Honorary Mention and 11th Japan Media Arts Festival Jury Award; was commissioned an art grant from Turbulence.org funded by Greenwall Foundation; and has held residencies at Experimental Television Center, Makor Steinhardt Center and Harvestworks, including eMobiLArt.

1975 Nuts and Volts Chronology

Nuts and Volts was a conference held 5/5-5/7/75, sponsored by Media Study/Buffalo and the Center for Media Study at U of Buffalo. Presentations were given by Ton Constanten; Harald Bode; Steve Rutt; Steina Vasulka and Woody Vasulka; Arnold Dreyblatt; Robert Moog; Lajaren Hiller; and John Myhill. Concerts featured Joel Chadabe; Judith Martin; Freida Schrott; the Buffalo String Quartet; Pat Feldballe and Walter Gajewski; and Martin Kalve and Friends; video presentations included Ralph Hocking; Walter Wright; Don McArthur; and Jean- Pierre Boyer.

1975 Nuts and Volts Chronology

Nuts and Volts was a conference held 5/5-5/7/75; it was sponsored by Media Study/Buffalo and the Center for Media Study at University of Buffalo. Presentations were given by Ton Constanten, Harald Bode, Steve Rutt, Steina Vasulka and Woody Vasulka, Arnold Dreyblatt, Robert Moog, Lajaren Hiller and John Myhill; concerts featured Joel Chadabe, Judith Martin, Freida Schrott and the Buffalo String Quartet, Pat Feldballe and Walter Gajewski, and Martin Kalve and Friends. Video presentations were by Ralph Hocking, Walter Wright, Don McArthur and Jean-Pierre Boyer.

Nuts and Volts. May 5-7, 1975. Festival of lectures and demonstrations by Harald Bode, Tom Constanten, Joel Chadabe, Steve Rutt, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka, Ralph Hocking, Walter Wright, Don McArthur, Robert Moog, Lejaren Hiller Bibliography

NYMDI Videotape Restoration Program Preservation

The New York Media Decentralization Institute initiated a twofold videotape restoration program comprising sponsorship of research with reprint distribution and development of a method to restore old 3/4" videocassettes. In 1987 Tony Conrad devised a rejuvenation procedure that recovered several 1/2" reel-to-reel artists' tapes; his notes were published by The Independent and in 1989 his procedure will be included in Rick Prelinger's archival guide in NYC. The Institute is a not-for-profit research association promoting understanding of the media arts and industry; it publishes reports and does not grant degrees.

NYS Commission on Cultural Resources inquiry on new technologies. Notes for Ray's presentation Bibliography

Nicholas Ray was invited to participate in the commission afternoon session on cultural-artistic programming for cable, cassette and other video technologies. Held at Automation House in NYC on October 17, 1972.

NYS Council on the Arts 1969-70: Chairman's Review Bibliography

Seymour H. Knox, chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts for ten years, reviews the Council's development, legislative recognition, recurring financial crises, and the question of how well its structure works. He details ongoing programs (Touring, Traveling Exhibitions, Technical Assistance), later additions (Film, Poets and Writers, Composer in Performance), grantmaking (Museum Aid, Festival Program), partnerships with AFL-CIO and the Ghetto Arts Program, initiatives for mental hospitals and children's theatre (with National Council on the Arts funds), an opera costume bank, and a SUNY residency program. He names executive directors Laurance Roberts, John H. MacFadyen, and John B. Hightower and proposes a Performing Arts Aid Program.

NYS Council on the Arts 1969-70: Executive Director's Statement Bibliography

John B. Hightower, Executive Director of the New York State Council on the Arts, assesses funding and institutional crises as the Council enters its second decade (1969–70), warning that the Metropolitan Opera, Buffalo Philharmonic and Rochester Symphony face imminent bankruptcy and that many state museums are insecure. He traces funding from wealthy individual patrons aided by tax benefits to limited corporate giving and to public support hampered by bureaucracy and Title III grants; he cites Laurance Roberts' 1960 recommendation for a $450,000 initial appropriation and notes grassroots forms such as street theatre, electronic sound, rock, jazz and folk addressing new aesthetic and public demands.

NYS Groups 1965 - 1980

Cycling graphic map showing video groups active in New York State; displays upstate groups for 1965–1980 and for 1981–1998, and two pages of New York City groups. The graphic was originally made for a conference on video history.

Occupied Territories: Mapping the Transgressions of Cultural Terrain - an interview/essay with Jayce Salloum and Molly Hankwitz Interview

Interview with video artist Jayce Salloum by Molly Hankwitz about his practice addressing representation and resistance in the Middle East, especially Lebanon; Salloum discusses production and reception strategies, critique of documentary conventions, and creating audiences through screenings and workshops. He details projects and collaborations including Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal (1990, with Elia Suleiman), Up to the South (Talaeen a Junuub, 1993, with Walid Raad, 60 min), This is Not Beirut (1994, 49 min), Kan Ya Ma Kan installation (1995–2000), and untitled/everything and nothing (2001–ongoing) featuring Soha Bechara; he reports fieldwork, a Beirut media studio, 150+ hours of interviews and ~50 hours of archival material, and hundreds of screenings.

Off Line: A Retrospective 1900-2003 Groups

Off Line: A Retrospective 1900-2003 The origins of OffLine from an Ithaca, NY - based cable access television program to an arts organization with international reach. OffLine was a national arts organization, cable television screening, and distributor of independently produced films and videos. It…

Official Program of the 1973 International Computer Arts Festival Bibliography

1988 Olean Public Library Chronology

Olean Public Library sponsored workshop on rural film exhibition during the annual exhibition series "Rural Images Film and Video Festival"., organized by librarian Jean Haynes.

On Movies Bibliography

Dwight MacDonald on Movies. Contents follow: Forenotes, Part One: Perspectives, Part Two: Revivals, Part Three: American Themes, Part Four: The Russian Cinema, Part Five: Movies, 1960-1966, and Part Six: Trims and Clips.

On Painting and Video Bibliography

On Photography Bibliography

On That Very Uncomfortable Edge: An Interview with Alan Sondheim Interview

Alan Sondheim, identified as a writer, teacher, curator, filmmaker, musician and contemporary art theorist, served as curator of Atlanta's Nexus Contemporary Art Center beginning in 1983 for two years, taught at the University of Texas in Dallas from 1986 to 1987, and served last year as artistic director of Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo. He recently returned to the Southeast to live in Atlanta and teaches contemporary art issues at the Atlanta College of Art and Western Carolina University; his book Disorders of the Real was issued by Station Hill Press. The interview was conducted in February at Western Carolina University with WCU instructor and book artist Leonard Seastone participating.

On the Small Screen. New Approaches in Television and Video Criticism Bibliography