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  1. WGBH New Television Workshop: Background of the The New Television Workshop at WGBH-TV Boston Groups

    In the late 1960s KQED, WNET and WGBH-TV established experimental television labs funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts to give artists access to television. Under WGBH producer Fred Barzyk the New Television Workshop and a Rockefeller Artists-in-Residence project began; the Workshop broadcast Medium is the Medium (1969) and Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe built the first video synthesizer there (1969–70). The Workshop opened a Watertown studio in 1974, donated equipment to the Boston Film/Video Foundation in 1978 and was closed by WGBH in 1993.

  2. 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

  3. 1967 WGBH-TV Chronology

    WGBH-TV inaugurates artist-in-residence program with grant from the Rockefeller Foundation

  4. 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

  5. What I would like the future to hold is both/and Bibliography

    The Squealer: the low-tech/ high-tech issue. What I would like the future to hold is both/and... by Ann-Sargeant Wooster.

  6. What is Cinema? Bibliography

  7. What is Grace in All This Madness: The Videotapes of Dan Reeves Interview

    Dan Reeves is a video artist who began making film and videotapes in 1979 after earlier work in sculpture and photography; his work treats political and social issues, notably nuclear war and Vietnam, as well as spiritual themes. Major tapes include Smothering Dreams (1981), about his Vietnam combat experience, and Sabda (1984), assembled from footage shot in India in 1983 with sound by Debra Schweitzer and Guggenheim support. He worked at Cornell's Educational Television Center, collaborated with Jon L. Hilton, and employed slow motion, Quantel and digital-imaging techniques.

  8. What Is This Channel Four? Bibliography

  9. What the Manual Didn't Tell You: Film/Tape Image Conversion Bibliography

  10. 1967 "What's Happening Mr. Silver?" Chronology

    "What's Happening Mr. Silver?" television production at WGBH-TV, Boston, hosted by David Silver . Experimental collage/information series in which several dozen inputs are mixed live and at random

  11. What's Next? An Open Discussion Preservation

    Open discussion facilitated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley (IMAP) and Luke Hones (Artists Television Access) at the Experimental Television Center symposium Looking Back/Looking Forward: A Symposium on Electronic Media Preservation, held May 31–June 1, 2002. Participants from BAVC, IMAP, EAI, Eastman House, NAMAC, DV Labs and others discussed tape-format preservation (Beta SP, Digital8, DV), documentation and cataloguing (pilot union catalogue, IMAP LISTSERV), technical approaches (non-invasive duplication, cleaning, manuals), ethics and conservation, online distribution/streaming and training and funding models.

  12. Whatever Happened to Guerrilla TV? Bibliography

  13. Whispers and Cries: Bill Viola at AFI Bibliography

  14. 1973 White Ox Chronology

    First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) support to White Ox, Rochester, for film production equipment access and workshops

  15. 1973 White Ox Films Chronology

    Co-sponsored videotape screening, organized by White Ox Films of Rochester and the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester. APril 1973. Jon Herrick, Director of Film Presentations at White Ox.

  16. White Ox Films, Inc. - Cinemedia Resource Center: Summary (1997) Groups

    White Ox Films, a Rochester, New York non-profit incorporated in 1972 and directed by David Tulbert, sought to develop and publicize conceptual, technical and practical systems in cinema technology, aesthetics and communications and to place film and television in public hands. In the 1970s it presented exhibitions, ran Film Farm (an eight-week summer workshop for gifted high school students) and screened Summer Dreams outdoors at the Rochester Highland Bowl; two projects were funded by the New York State Council on the Arts under Peter Bradley. A 1975 NYSCA grant established the Cinemedia Resource Center, which loaned Super-8 and 16mm equipment, offered workshops and a visiting-artist program, published the Cinemedia Newsletter and pursued technology development with additional NEA support.

  17. White Ox Films: Funding the Future Bibliography

    Organization of White Ox Films in Rochester; David Tulbert, director

  18. 1973 Whitney Museum Biennial Chronology

    1973 Whitney Museum Biennial included seven videotapes and one installation, selected by the curators of painting and sculpture

  19. 1975 Whitney Museum of American Art Chronology

    New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, for "Projected Video" exhibition

  20. 1975 Whitney Museum of American Art Chronology

    Video becomes regular part of Whitney Museum of American Art's programs, New York City, under the direction of John Hanhardt

  21. Whitney Museum of American Art - Video Program: Chronology: Video at the Whitney Museum 1971-1983, Marita Sturken (1983) Groups

    Chronology compiled by Marita Sturken for Afterimage (May 1983) documenting video programs at the Whitney Museum from 1971 through 1983; it lists exhibitions, biennials, retrospectives and thematic programs with artists and individual works. Entries record formats and presentation modes including projected video, two-channel pieces, satellite and Manhattan cable telecasts, film and video installations, audio installations and performance/telecasts; dates for works and exhibitions are given throughout. Notable recurring items include biennial exhibitions and a Nam June Paik retrospective.

  22. 1979 Whitney Museum of American Art, Chronology

    Whitney Museum of American Art, Re/Visions: Projects and Proposals in Film and Video," which included works by Bill Beirne, William Anastasi, Buky Schwartz, Morgan Fisher, Michael Snow, David Behrman and Bob Diamond, and Robert Watts

  23. Whitney Museum of American Art. The Contemporary Series. Irit Batsry: Set. December 11, 2003- February 22, 2004 Bibliography

    Whitney Museum of American Art. The Contemporary Series. Irit Batsry: Set. December 11, 2003- February 22, 2004. Program notes includes artist's biography and curators' essay. Institution/Organizer: Whitney Museum of American Art Site: Whitney Museum of American Art Curator(s): Rinder,Lawrence Ehren…

  24. Who's in Control? Issues in Interactive Media Art Bibliography

    A discussion of control in interactive digital art centered on the authors sound-and-video installation The Listening Microphone; users vocalize into a microphone, Max (Opcodes Max) converts voice to MIDI via analog-to-MIDI converters to trigger SampleCell playback (32 MB of voice samples recorded live) and QuickTime video jump-cuts, with spatialized output through small amplified speakers. The text situates the project with reference to John Cage (indeterminacy), Walter Ong (sound vs visual sensorium), Sherry Turkle (simulated presence), Donna Haraway (the cyborg) and Thomas Edison (recorded voices).

  25. Who's Who in Video: Bill Viola Bibliography