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1978 Barbara Buckner Chronology

Barbara Buckner presents video at the Creative Music Studio. Sponsored by the Women's Studio Workshop.

Barbara Buckner People

Barbara Buckner began working with video in 1972 and employs advanced video and computer technologies to create painterly, non-narrative, often silent compositions with dense, abstract and figurative imagery. She holds a BFA from NYU and has taught at City College of New York and the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been distributed internationally, exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, held residencies at the Experimental Television Center and WXXI, and supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Barbara Buckner: Psychic Poetry Exemplified Bibliography

Barbara Buckner: Psychic Poetry Exemplified

1997 Barbara Hammer Chronology

The Female Closet by Barbara Hammer was sponsored by Experimental Television Center and supported by New York State Council on the Arts, 1997-98.

2000 Barbara Hammer Chronology

"History Lessons" by Barbara Hammer is a reconstruction on film of lesbian history dating back to the very dawn of cinema. Supported in part by an award from the New York State Council on the Arts administered by the Experimental Television Center.

2000 Barbara Hammer Chronology

"History Lessons" by Barbara Hammer is a reconstruction on film of lesbian history dating back to the very dawn of cinema. Supported in part by an award from the New York State Council on the Arts administered by the Experimental Television Center.

Barbara Hammer People

Barbara Hammer uses film and video to make the invisible visible and to reveal and celebrate marginalized peoples; her multi-level cinema sought visceral and intellectual engagement and encouraged stances for social change. Her work has been exhibited worldwide; in 1998 a major retrospective was held at Immaganaria, the 6th Women's Film Festival in Bologna. Her trilogy Nitrate Kisses (1992), Tender Fictions (1995) and History Lessons (2000) is considered classic cinema; retrospectives were held at The Arsenal in Berlin and at Image in Atlanta; her works are distributed by Frameline.

Barbara Kristaponis People

Barbara Kristaponis worked in video for twenty years, producing her own work while writing grants and freelancing in lighting and production; she bartered lighting skills for one-inch edits and use of a Nagra. She traveled as camerawoman on two documentaries in Africa, organized women's video teaching and editing workshops, and directed a psychiatry?video unit for six years while lecturing on video and psychiatry in the U.S., Canada and Finland. Her work received partial foundation support including NYSCA and she was paid to experiment in Lake Placid 1973?1976 where she formed a workshop center.

Barbara Lattanzi People

Barbara Lattanzi is an artist whose practice involves constructing and applying "cinema software"; she has written and applied digital code for projects including motion-picture riffing and improvisation (Unwriting), remediation of particular "structuralist" films of the 1970s (HF Critical Mass), reexamination of the sing-along as ideology critique (C-SPAN Karaoke), and perceptual experimentation with extended-duration moving-image structures (Optical De-dramatization Engine). She teaches in the Expanded Media Division of the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, Alfred, New York; website: http://www.wildernesspuppets.net.

1977 Barbara London Chronology

Barbara London becomes assistant curator in the Department of Film, Museum of Modern Art. Her responsibilities include the permanent collection, which holds over 400 titles; the as-yet unopened video study center; the newly launched circulating video library; and Video Viewpoints, an on-going lecture series with in-person appearances by video artists.

Barbara London People

Barbara London, Curator of Media Arts at the Museum of Modern Art, founded the Museum's Video Exhibition Program in 1974 and established an international context for video and media art, presenting artists including Laurie Anderson and Bill Viola. She helped found the Video Study Center and assembled over 1,000 independently produced videotapes and related historical and theoretical publications to link electronic arts with traditional art mediums. She took two sabbaticals in Japan to investigate electronic technologies and effects on art and published InterNyet, Stir-fry, Non-Personal Computer Art (Lyon Biennial, Musee d'Art Contemporain, 1995) and Time as Medium, Leonardo Vol. 28, No. 5.

Barbara Osborn People

Barbara Osborn is communications director at Liberty Hill Foundation and previously spent 15 years freelancing as a print reporter and radio and TV documentary producer, usually covering the media. She conducted several studies of local L.A. news media in conjunction with Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting; her findings included that local TV news favored sensational stories, gave more airtime to surfing dogs than to public officials, and sold more ad time to political campaigns than it devoted to political coverage. Her radio program Deadline LA debuted in spring 1997 and was hailed by New Times as L.A.'s best new radio program; she is working on a book about daytime and late-night talk shows and the 2000 presidential campaign.

Barbara Rosenthal People

Barbara Rosenthal (born 17 August 1948) is a New York–based conceptual polyartist who has produced photographs, videos, super/8 films, objects, games, performances, book-art and interactive novelties; her work was shown at The Jewish Museum (Time and Memory: Video Art and Identity, 1988) and the Center For Photography in Woodstock (Time, Memory, and the Limits of Photography, 1995), and is held by The Whitney Museum and MoMA. She studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, Art Students' League (1964–66), earned a B.F.A. from Carnegie-Mellon (1970) and an M.F.A. from Queens College/CUNY (1973), and has taught at numerous institutions including Tisch School of the Arts/NYU and CUNY/College of Staten Island (teaching Writing since 1992); published books include Clues to Myself (1981), Sensations (1984), Homo Futurus (1996) and Soul & Psyche (1999).

Barbara Sternberg People

Barbara Sternberg frames her film practice around the properties of time and light and their relation to perception; she defines perception as bodily and mental apprehension and addresses how people see the world and themselves, how time presses on us, and how pastness and repetition operate. She emphasizes rhythm in shooting and cutting and describes her aesthetic as daily, observational and messy; she states her films are about power and resist the glossy surface Kodak gives, adopts an observational stance, uses many images for multiple readings, and works between abstraction and representation so meaning accumulates over the duration of a film.

Barbara Sykes-Dietz People

Barbara Sykes is a video artist who holds an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute (1979–81) and completed B.F.A. studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago (1974–79); her work spans video, computers and performance. Since 1975 her award-winning tapes have been shown worldwide at major museums, galleries and on broadcast and cable television; she was a featured artist in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition Art in Chicago: 1945 to 1995 and has received numerous grants and artists residencies for research and videotape production in India, Japan, China, Australia, Spain and New York.

Bart Woodstrup People

Bart Bridger Woodstrup (born 1973) is a computer musician and MFA candidate in the Integrated Electronic Arts Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York; he studies under Pauline Oliveros, Neil Rolnick, and Curtis Bahn. He applies formal visual-arts training, computer programming, and sensor data to generate real-time audio and video synthesis and to create video as visual support for his compositions. He has taught at the Illinois Institute of Art at Schaumburg and Northern Illinois University, worked in the Experimental Television Center Residency Program, and presented at SEAMUS, Siggraph, and ISEA.

1975 BASIC Chronology

Paul Allen and Bill Gates license BASIC first used on the Altair, Microsoft founded.

BASIC-80 Reference Manual for Z-80 Computers Bibliography

Basic-80 Reference Manual for Z-80 Computers from Dave Jones. Includes General Information about BASIC-80, BASIC-80 Commands and Statements, BASIC-80 Functions, 13 Appendices.

Bateson Through the Looking Glass Bibliography

Gary Hill

Battery Packs and Belts Sales Literature Bibliography

Battery Packs and Belts Sales Literature. Illustrated with photographs and prices. Includes photographs and description of solar chargers for portable film cameras Model NC-4-SC and Model 12400-SC.

Bay Area Video Bibliography

1993 Bay Area Video Coalition Chronology

Bay Area Video Coalition receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts to establish a center for re-mastering obsolete formats of videotape, under the leadership of Sally Jo Fifer and Luke Hones.

1995 Bay Area Video Coalition Chronology

Bay Area Video Coalition opens the first non-profit remastering facility for ?" open reel tape, under the direction of Luke Hones

Bay Area Video Coalition: Harboring Independents Bibliography

Bay Guardian Calendar September 20 through October 4, 1973 Bibliography

Don Hallock's Videola at the San Francisco Museum of Art, September 21 - November 4, 1973.