Events
995 records
1960 time-sharing on computers Chronology
Work on cooperative networks of time-sharing on computers from 1960 - 1969, sponsored by ARPA. MIT, RAND
1961 New York State Council on the Arts Chronology
NYS Legislature creates the New York State Council on the Arts. NYSCA receives initial funding of $450,000
1961 Robert Bell Chronology
The New York State Council on the Arts commissioned Robert Bell to make Watching Ballet, a 16mm film with Jacques D'Amboise and Allegra Kent demonstrating ballet technique. The film, completed in 1963, was used in the Ballet Society's touring educational programs.
1961 Sony Chronology
Sony demonstrates the world's smallest and lightest videotape recorder (model PV-100), designed for the technological, industrial, educational, medical, sports and arts markets.
1961 SONY Chronology
SONY announced the world's first transistorized video tape recorder, and two years later SONY's video tape recorder model PV-100 appeared.
1962 Ampex Chronology
Ampex 2" Helical video recording equipment. First popular helical system.
1962 Editec Chronology
Editec allows frame-by-frame animation on a videotape recorder
1962 Filmmaker's Co-op Chronology
Filmmaker's Co-op founded, New York City
1962 Sony Chronology
Sony markets 2-inch open-reel videotape for the world's first transistor videotape recorder, the PV-100.
1963 Wolf Vostell Chronology
"Television DÈ-Coll/age" exhibition by Wolf Vostell, Smolin Gallery, New York City. First U.S. environmental installation using a television set.
1964 Ford Foundation Chronology
Ford Foundation funds independent filmmakers
1964 satellite television Chronology
First public demonstration of satellite television feed using a stationary satellite.
1964 SONY Chronology
SONY 1" video recording format
1964 WGBH-TV Chronology
"Jazz Images," producer, Fred Barzyk presented by WGBH-TV. Five short visualizations of music for broadcast; one of the first attempts at experimental television
1965 Independent Electronic Music Center Chronology
Independent Electronic Music Center, Trumansberg, New York. Founded by Robert Moog and Reynold Weidenaar in 1965. Weidenaar was connected with the Center from the Summer of 1965 to February 1969, and edited Electronic Music Review.
1965 John Hightower Chronology
In August 1965 NYSCA Executive Director John Hightower convened an advisory group to plan how the Council could disseminate distribution information and tour films to communities throughout the state; participants included Ralph Hetzel, acting head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Margareta Akermark of the Museum of Modern Art's Film Library; Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16 and Program Director of the newly-founded New York Film Festival; and producers Arthur Meyer and Dore Shary, who soon after became New York City's first Commissioner of Cultural Affairs. The convening resulted in the Film Project directed by Peter Bradley.
1965 Nam June Paik Chronology
"Electronic Art" exhibition by Nam June Paik at Galeria Bonino, New York City. Paik's first gallery exhibition in the U.S.
1965 National Endowment for the Arts Chronology
Congress creates the National Endowment for the Arts
1965 National Endowment for the Arts Chronology
Legislation creates the National Endowment for the Arts, which establishes The American Film Institute. One of the goals of the AFI is to preserve our heritage of film and television.
1965 Rockefeller Foundation Chronology
Rockefeller Foundation began to fund artists for experimentation with video.
1965 Sony Chronology
Sony introduces 1/2" CV-2000, the first consumer video format. This was not a portable system.
1965 The Film-Makers Cinematheque Chronology
"New Cinema Festival I" (Expanded Cinema Festival), The Film-Makers Cinematheque. Organized by John Brockman. Festival explores uses of mixed-media projection, including viseo, sound, and light experiments
1965 Variscan . Chronology
Precision Instruments introduces Variscan which allows continuously variable playback speed.
1966 "9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering" Chronology
"9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering" at the 69th Regiment, New York City. Organized by Billy Kl¸ver. Mixed media performance events with collaborations between ten artists and forty engineers. Video projection used in works of Alex Hay, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor and Robert Whitman.
1966 Amateur Computer Society Chronology
Amateur Computer Society founder by Steven Gray