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Visual Music Instrument Patents: Volume One Bibliography

A collection of primary source documents for visual music instruments, often called "color organs," gleaned from the United States Patent Office. Information about these devices is often only available through the inventor's patent applications, but these applications are not currently available exc…

Visual Music: Notes for a Lecture Bibliography

Researched and presented by Maura McDonnell for Music and Image Course 2003, for students attending M. Phil in Music and Media Technolocy, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Visual Music: Searching for an Aesthetic Bibliography

Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900 Bibliography

This publication accompanies the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles exhibition Visual Music. Visual Music features ninety major works of art plus related documentation, focusing on abstract and mixed-media art forms and their connections to musical forms as varied as classical, jazz and electro…

1971 Visual Studies Workshop Chronology

Equipment access funded by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester. For film.

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.

1973 Visual Studies Workshop Chronology

Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester established a media center and began production of Afterimage with coverage of video; Nathan Lyons served as director. Media center coordinators included Wayne Luke, Laddy Kite, Mona Jimenez, Arthur Tsuchiya, Nancy Norwood and Robert Doyle. The Workshop maintained a production facility that hosted workshops and exhibitions.

1973 Visual Studies Workshop Chronology

Visual Studies Workshop published Equipment access, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA); the publisher is Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester. Cooperstown TV is a Museum is a document of a video workshop for historians and museum personnel conducted by the Video Freex Media-bus under the auspices of the New York State Historical Association.

1974 Visual Studies Workshop Chronology

Visual Studies Workshop receives grant from New York State Council on the Arts Film Program for community film series, and for the Media Center.

1974 Visual Studies Workshop Chronology

Visual Studies Workshop receives grant from New York State Council on the Arts TV/Media Program for artists' fees and equipment for a media resource center.

Visual Studies Workshop - Media Center: Descriptions of Visual Studies Workshop (1977, 1999) Groups

James Lohrey's 1999 Media Center Highlighted Screenings/Lectures 1972–Present lists visiting artists, screenings, lectures and festivals at Visual Studies Workshop from 1972 to 1999, noting establishment of the Media Center, Visiting Artist Program and the NO‑TV series. John Minkowsky's 1977 survey describes the Program in Photographic Studies offering an MFA through University Center at Buffalo under Nathan Lyons; the two‑and‑a‑half‑year, workshop‑oriented curriculum includes concentrated projects and a six‑month internship. Facilities cited include a Research Center with over 8,000 books, 250 magazine titles and 100,000 images, conservation and restoration, a bookbindery, a travelling exhibition program and a publications program producing Afterimage and visual books.

Visual Thinking Bibliography

Visual Thinking. Contents follow: Early Stirrings, The Intelligence of Perception, The Intelligence of Perception, Two and Two Together, The Past and the Present, The Images of Thought, Concepts Take Shape, Pictures, Symbols, and Signs, What Abstraction Is Not, What Abstraction Is, With Feet on the …

Vito Acconci People

Vito Acconci (born 1940) received a BA from Holy Cross College and an MFA from the University of Iowa; his work was exhibited internationally. He wrote for October and Art Forum and taught at Yale and several art schools. His early work used live activity, photographs, film and video; in the 1980s he activated machinery that erected shelters and signs and later produced furniture and prototypes of houses and gardens; in 1987 the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art organized the traveling retrospective Vito Acconci: Domestic Trappings, and he later worked with the Architecture Association on architecture and landscape design integrating public and private space; www.acconci.com.

Vivid Video: A Documentary is Born Bibliography

Giving Birth: Four Portraits by John Reilly. Global Villags.

1923 Vladimir Zworkin Chronology

Iconoscope electronic television camera patented by Vladimir Zworkin. In 1924 he patents a receiver, making possible the electronic scanning system of television.

Vlahos-Gottschalk Research Corp. Operator Manual for the Ultimatte - 4 Bibliography

Vlahos-Gottschalk Research Corp. Operator Manual for the Ultimatte - 4. Includes instructional packet, schematics and block diagrams.

VMS Video Modular System Bibliography

Description from product literature of the VMS System. The VMS was designed by Bill Etra of Etra Technology Research Associates, Dan Sandin (University of Chicago, Circle Campus) and Lee Felsenstein, with assistance from Bill Hearn (Electronic Associates of Berkeley).

Voltage Control and the Analog Synthesizer - from Experimental Television Center Studio System Manual Tools

Experimental Television Center's Analog Synthesizer is a modular system producing control voltages and synthesized audio; outputs conform to a -5V to +5V standard (10V peak-to-peak) and the unit is compatible with commercial audio synthesis equipment. The studio manual documents two boxes of modules and their controls and jacks — negative and positive ramps, triangle, waveshape shaper, inverter, random, one-shot and pulse, comparators, mixers, dual VCAs, VCFs and a VCO — with operating ranges, VC/gain/bias/Q functions and typical patching techniques. The text includes signal classifications (bias, function, waveshape) and suggested patches for oscillation, gating, sampling, panning and filtering.

Votrax. Vocal Interface Division Federal Screw Works Bibliography

Votrax. Vocal Interface Division Federal Screw Works. Packet includes a general description of the Votrax Voice and Audio Synthesizer, price list and options, color photograph, and photographic fliers for Studio One by Advanced Tools for the Arts.

Voyeruism Bibliography

with guest editors Lisa Steele + Kim Tomzcak, and Nayan Shah, exploring the complex nature of the topics of VOYEURISM , surveillance, and the pleasures and risks of watching. VOYEURISM incorporated a significant international element, with guest editors from Canada, and articles and artist pages fro…

VSynths: Video Hardware Development for Experimental Television Center Bibliography

Video Hardware Development for Experimental Television Center My video hardware development work for the Experimental Television Center, and for Design Lab, included a contribution in building the last generation of custom Jones analog and digital image and sound synthesizers currently installed at …

Wafaa Bilal People

Wafaa Bilal is a Chicago-based visual artist; he holds a BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Born in Najaf, Iraq, he grew up during the Ba'ath Party's rise and the Iran-Iraq War and studied geology and geography at the University of Baghdad. In 1991 he was blacklisted and joined hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Iraq, traveling through Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and arriving in the United States in 1992; he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is represented by FlatFile Galleries individually and as a member of Crudeoils; website http://www.wafaabilal.com.

Wago Kreider/ Studio 27 People

Education 2002 MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University - Visual Arts (Media) 1996 MA University of California, Berkeley - Rhetoric (Film Studies) 1992 MA S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo - Humanities (Media Study/English) 1990 BA University of California, San Diego - Visual Art (Media) Screenings …

Walid Raad People

Walid Raad is a media producer and assistant professor of media and cultural studies at Queens College, City University of New York; he holds a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. His video and photography works have been exhibited in the US, Western Europe and the Middle East. His recent video work includes The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs (1998, NTSC, 18:00); he co-edited with Deborah Root a special issue of the journal Public titled Entangles Territories: Imaging the Orient.

1967 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Chronology

"Light/Motion/Space," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in collaboration with Howard Wise Gallery, New York City. Travels to Milwaukee Art Center. Includes video works by Nam June Paik, Aldo Tambellini and others