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1972 The Everson Museum Chronology
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds The Everson Museum, Syracuse, for video exhibition program, David Ross, video curator. Funds for film and video exhibition programs, including an installation by Frank Gillette.
1972 The Federal Communications Commmision Chronology
The Federal Communications Commmision (FCC), Washington, D.C., requires that all cable franchises have at least one public access channel
1972 The Kitchen, June 29, 1972 Chronology
Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman perform live at The Kitchen, June 29, 1972. Technical assistance by Ralph Hocking, Experimental Television Center.
1972 The Television Laboratory Chronology
The Television Laboratory was a unit at WNET/Thirteen in New York; it was founded with grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Directors included David Loxton and Carol Brandenburg; in its first year it initiated an artists-in-residence program that included Shirley Clarke, Douglas Davis, Ed Emshwiller and Nam June Paik.
1972 Top Value Television (TVTV) Chronology
Top Value Television (TVTV) is a San Francisco–based independent documentary production group that provided alternative coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions in Miami; the group achieved the first use of half-inch videotape on broadcast television. Original production was by Hudson Marquez, Allen Rucker, Michael Shamberg, Tom Weinberg, Megan Williams and members of the Ant Farm, Raindance and Videofreex collectives; other members included Wendy Apple, Michael Couzens, Paul Goldsmith, Betsy Guignon, Stanton Kaye, Anda Korsts, Andy Mann and Elon Soltes.
1972 TV Lab at WNET/13 Chronology
TV Lab at WNET/13, New York City, founded. Directors include David Loxton.
1972 TV/Media Program Chronology
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), New York City, formed a TV/Media Program; the council's total appropriation was 16.3 million. Staff of the Film, TV/Media and Literature Program included Peter Bradley (Director), Barbara Haspiel (Film Associate), Russell Connor (TV/Media Associate), Lydia Silman (TV/Media Program Assistant) and Constance Eiseman (Literature Associate); directors have included Peter Bradley, Paul Ryan, Russell Connor, Gilbert Konishi, Lydia Silman, Nancy Legge, John Giancola, Debby Silverfine and Karen Helmerson.
1972 Upstate Films Chronology
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, under direction of Steve and DeDe Leiber for international film screenings. Funds for film and video exhibition programs.
1972 Visual Studies Workshop Chronology
Visual Studies Workshop funded by New York State Council on the Arts ($15,000) for artists' fees for visiting artists multimedia program, and to establish research center with library of audiotapes, films and videotapes.
1972 WGBH-TV Chronology
"The First On-Air Half-Inch Videotape Festival Ever: People Television," WGBH-TV, Boston; produced by Henry Becton with Fred Barzyk and Dorothy Chiesa. Live studio event including home viewer call-ins, tape screenings and interviews with artists, engineers, business people, educators and students
1972 Women Make Movies Chronology
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Women Make Movies, New York City, under direction of Ariel Dougherty, for filmmaking workshops in Chelsea
1972 Women's Interart Center Chronology
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Women's Interart Center, New York City, for an equipment pool and workshop program organized by Ronnie Geist
1972 Women's Interart Center Chronology
Women's Interart Center, New York, begins a post-production center. Center offers workshops, produces videotapes and sponsors artists-in-residence
1972 Woodstock Community Television Chronology
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Woodstock Community Television for a cable project
1972 Woodstock Community Video Chronology
Woodstock Community Video, Woodstock, New York, founded by Ken marsh; members include Barbara Buckner, Bob Dacy, Gary Hill, Steven Kolpan and Elaine Milosh. Production center and resource for community video; initiates local cable programming; begins Artists' TV Lab
1972 Work from the Experimental Television Center Chronology
Exhibition Work from the Experimental Television Center was held at the Everson Museum of Art, September 19–October 2, 1972; the catalog included an introduction by James Harithas and an essay by David Ross. Live performances featured Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota; other works included TV Bed, a collaborative piece by Ralph Hocking, Sherry Miller, Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman, Video Construction (a nine-channel view of the museum), Three Channel Video Performance (Shigeko Kubota), Minimal Piano Performance (Nam June Paik) and a Jazz Concert with live music and a Paik Abe video synthesizer. The program also presented continuous four-channel videotape screenings of works produced at the Experimental Television Center.
1972 Xerox Chronology
Xerox begins project Alto to build personal computer for research
1973 "1973 Biennial Exhibition" Chronology
"1973 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; first inclusion of video in Biennial exhibition. Includes videotapes by seven artists and installation by Peter Campus
1973 Artists Videotape Distribution Service Chronology
Howard Wise initiated the Artists Videotape Distribution Service at Electronic Arts Intermix.
1973 "Circuit: A Video Invitational" Chronology
Circuit: A Video Invitational was a traveling exhibition of videotapes organized by the Everson Museum, Syracuse and curated by David Ross; it included works by over sixty-five artists. The exhibition traveled to Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Kˆlnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, West Germany; and Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina.
1973 Cooperstown TV is a Museum Chronology
Book documents the video workshop Cooperstown TV is a Museum produced by the Videofreex in cooperation with the NYS Historical Association; the record lists participants Lucy Kostelanetz, Ralph Hocking, Lydia Silman, Milo Stewart, David Cort, Nancy Cain, Skip Blumberg, Bart Friedman, Davidson Gigliotti, Parry Teasdale, Carol Vontobel and Ellie Bingham. Associated organizations named are NYSCA; Museum of the City of NY; Renssalearville Historical Society; Northport High School; Brooklyn CHildren's Museum; NYS Historical Association; Videofreex; Binghamton University; and Experimental TV Center.
1973 Cornell Cinema Chronology
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds film exhibition at Cornell Cinema, Ithaca. Funds for year-round film screenings. Directors have included Richard Herskowitz, Mary Fessenden
1973 CP/M Chronology
CP/M (Control Program/Monitor) operating system developed by Gary Kildall
1973 Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships Chronology
Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1972-73; fellows were Nancy Cain, Joseph Chiara, Dimitri Devyatkin, Carl Geiger, John Keeler, Steven Kolpan, Joanna Milton, David Sasser, Brent Sharman, Barry Solomon and Lance Wisniewski. Panelists for the fellowships were Dean Evans, Phillip Mallory Jones, Ken Marsh, Maurice McClelland and Carole Zeitland.
1973 DARPA Chronology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated a research program to investigate techniques and technologies for interlinking packet networks; the objective was to develop communication protocols enabling networked computers to communicate transparently across multiple linked packet networks. The effort was called the Internetting project and produced a system of networks known as the Internet; the protocols developed during the research became known as the TCP/IP Protocol Suite after the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP).