Events
995 records
1978 4th Annual Ithaca Video Festival Chronology
4th Annual Ithaca Video Festival was presented at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse; works by Ann Volkes, Peter Bettendorff, Skip Blumberg, Tobe Carey, Doris Chase, James Edwards, Alan Esner/Jamie Newman, Ernest Gusella, Gary Hill, Leland Johnston, Steven King, Mitchell Kriegman, Pat Lehman, Eva Maier, Laurie McDonald, Michael Moser, Alan Powell, N.O.V.A.C., Marilyn Rivchin/John Reaves, Karen Simon Petersen, Vibeke Sorensen, John Sanborn/Kit Fitzgerald, Diane Spodarek, Edin Velez and Bill Viola played 5 hours a day.
1978 Access Film and Video Equipment Chronology
Access Film and Video Equipment a Directory researched by Nancy Legge for the Media Arts Program of the NEA published in 1978. Based on a 1977 survey of 72 organizations in 23 states.
1978 Albright-Knox Art Gallery Chronology
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Exhibition: Vasulka: Steina - Machine, Woody - Description, with catalog. Curator, Linda Cathcart.
1978 Ant Farm Chronology
Ant Farm, San Francisco, artists' media/architecture group disbands
1978 Barbara Buckner Chronology
Barbara Buckner presents video at the Creative Music Studio. Sponsored by the Women's Studio Workshop.
1978 Black Filmmaker Foundation Chronology
Black Filmmaker Foundation, New York City, receives New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to begin "Dialogues with Black Filmmakers" screening series. The film series screens Black independent films in community centers throughout New York City.
1978 Black Filmmaker Foundation, Chronology
Black Filmmaker Foundation, New York City, is founded by Warrington Hudlin and George Cunningham
1978 Computer introductions Chronology
Computer introductions: Epson dot matrix printer, Atari 400 and 800 personal computers
1978 Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships Chronology
Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1977-78. Bill Beirne, Nancy Cain, Hermine Freed, Nancy Holt, Angelo Jannuzzi and Thom Sudano, Terry Mack, Ruth Rotko, Bill Stephens. Panel: Robert Burns, Shigeko Kubota, Rita Myers, Tony Ramos, Arthur Tsuchiya.
1978 Educational Film Library Association Chronology
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds The Educational Film Library Association, New York City, to screen video in the American Film Festival
1978 Electron Movers Video Show. Chronology
Electron Movers Video Show. March 28, 1978. at 128 Main Street, Providence. Laurie McDonald, Alan Powell, Ed Tannenbaum, Dennis Hlynsky, Bill Jungels.
1978 Elipsis: A Video/Dance Performance Chronology
Elipsis: A Video/Dance Performance, presented at Experimental Television Center. 3/21/78. Performers included Cara Brownell, Chana Gazit, and Julie Harrison and Company
1978 Ellipsis: A Video/Dance Chronology
Ellipsis: A Video/Dance performance at the Experimental Television Center, March 21-22. Performers: Cara Brownell, Chana Gazit, Julie Harrison and Company.
1978 Frank Gillette Chronology
Frank Gillette. Contemporary Arts Museum Gillette exhibition Aransas - Axis of Observation, curated by David Ross for touring exhibition. Installation at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, with assistance from James Harithas and Ann O'Connor Williams Harithas.
1978 Jerome Foundation Chronology
Jerome Foundation begins awarding fellowships for film- and videomakers in New York State
1978 John Reilly Chronology
John Reilly, an independent documentary producer and the Director of Global Village, a regional media center in New York City, led a long-term project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, the Rockefeller Foundation and the SONY Corporation of America to visit over twenty American cities to gather independent makers at local television stations and to introduce developing video technologies; he organized discussions about collaboration in program production. He extended the project by holding conferences on The Independent Producer and Public Television in major American cities, including New York at The Museum of Modem Art in March, 1978.
1978 John Sturgeon Chronology
John Sturgeon: Two Video Installations, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1/21/78-2/19/78. Catalog introduction by David Ross.
1978 Land Truth Circus Chronology
Land Truth Circus, San Francisco, experimental video collective renamed Truthco in 1972 becomes T.R. Uthco in 1975 . Disbanded.
1978 Nancy Sher Chronology
Nancy Sher Director, Film Program, New York State Council on the Arts 1978-1980
1978 Peter D'Agostino Chronology
TeleGuide and Proposal for QUBE by Peter D'Agostino. QUBE was a two-way cable TV system in Columbus, OH. Proposal for QUBE was installed at Ohio State University (1978)
1978 Peter D'Agostino Chronology
Record for artist Peter D'Agostino listing works Alpha, Trans, Chung and the titled item Peter D'Agostino: A Photographic Model: Semiotics, Film, and Interpretation. Includes essays by Rae Blakeney (Syntactics and the On-Going Work of Peter D'Agostino), Alain Robbe-Grillet (Order and Disorder in Film and Fiction) and William Luhr (Semiotics and Film: From an Interview with Umberto Eco); contains a review by Hal Foster.
1978 Pittsburgh Filmmakers Chronology
Pittsburgh Filmmakers convened a meeting in June 1978 to address issues raised by the Mohonk Conference and the publication The Independent Film Community; participants judged the public unaware of independent media activities and national organizations such as the AFI insufficiently responsive. Twenty-three of the largest media centers attended but the meeting was not representative, prompting a perception that national, unified action was needed. A Steering Committee was formed to call the 1979 Minnewaska Conference; it represented the Rocky Mountain Film Center, the Northwest Film Study Center, the Bay Area Video Coalition, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, the Boston Film/Video Foundation and AIVF.
1978 Richard Landry Chronology
Richard Landry concert at Experimental Television Center. 5/4/78. An in-person concert performance by Landry
1978 Richard Landry Chronology
Richard Landry concert at Experimental Television Center. 5/4/78. An in-person concert performance by Landry
1978 Steina Vasulka Chronology
Steina Vasulka video exhibition at Experimental Television Center. 4/14/78