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995 records
1979 New York State Council for the Humanities Chronology
New York State Council for the Humanities begins supporting film and video
1979 New York Upstate Meeting of Non-Profit Media Groups Chronology
Meeting of non-profit media groups convened March 9, 1979 at Synapse Video Center in Syracuse to continue discussions about forming an organization eventually known as Media Alliance; attendees included representatives from museums, university media centers, community video projects and public broadcasters, including Everson Museum, Experimental Television Center, Vasulka Corporation, Visual Studies Workshop, WCNY-TV and WXXI-TV. A subsequent meeting in New York City involved John Reilly, Mary MacArthur, Leandra Strobing, Tom Morey, Willoughby Sharp, Davidson Gigliotti, John Sanborn, Michael Rothbard, Kathie Bodily and Liza Bear representing Global Village, The Kitchen and Inter-Media Art Center.
1979 Optic Nerve Chronology
Optic Nerve, San Francisco, video documentary collective disbands
1979 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 Long Beach Museum of Art (1979).
1979 Projects: Video XXVII Chronology
Museum of Modern Art "Projects: Video XXVII"
1979 Report: The 1979 National Conference of Media Arts Centers Chronology
Report of the 1979 National Conference of Media Arts Centers; published by Foundation of Independent Video and Film and also known as the Minnewaska Conference. Includes papers by Virgil Grillo (A Proposal for Audience Development; A Proposal for NEA Small Grants Provision to be Distributed by Media Arts Centers; Touring Artists and Cooperative Bookings), Robert Haller (Payment to Artists for Exhibitions of Their Work; Media Arts Organizations 1966-1978), Alan Jacobs (A Proposal for a National Advocacy Newsletter), Jonas Mekas (Notes on the Preservation of Independently Made Films), Robert Sitton (A National Center for Independent Feature Film?), and Susan Woll (Three Proposals for Supporting and Facilitating Production).
1979 Stephen Partridge Chronology
Installation by Stephen Partridge at The Kitchen, September/October. "Study in Blue" is a two channel stereo installation, funded by the Arts Council of Great Britian and The British Council.
1979 The Electronic Image: A Travelling Workshop Chronology
Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller Hocking of the Experimental Television Center conducted The Electronic Image, a travelling workshop concerning image processing tools and techniques; the record gives dates 1980 and 1979–1980. The program was sponsored by the University Wide Committee on the Arts for 20 colleges and universities around NYS. Presentations took place at Jamestown Community College, Monroe Community College, Orange County Community College, Sullivan County Community College, Visual Studies Workshop, Mass Productions (Ithaca), Utica College and Anthology Film Archives.
1979 The Frontier Chronology
The Frontier was a weekly series of 16 programs broadcast on WNED-TV in Buffalo, NY from December 15, 1979 to April 19, 1980; it was produced by Media Study/Buffalo with David Shapiro as Director, which curated the series, and WNED-TV provided technical assistance for broadcast. Producer Lynn Corcoran and Executive Producer James Blue were credited for Media Study/Buffalo; the series showcased independent video and filmmakers and received support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Canada Council. Participants included AP Ferullo, Marcelle Pecot, Joan Chase, John Hardham, Rick Hancox, Sally Dundas, Paul Cassellman, Michalel Kennedy and numerous other video artists and filmmakers.
1979 The Governor's Office for Motion Pictures and Television Chronology
The Governor's Office for Motion Pictures and Television is established in NYS.
1979 The Independent Producer, Public Television, and New Video Technologies Chronology
On December 10-12, 1979, at John Reilly's conference The Independent Producer, Public Television, and New Video Technologies held at The Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Brian O'Doherty, Director of the Media Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, announced that funds were being directed to regional organizations. He named the Alabama Filmmakers Coop and the South West Alternate Media Project as examples; the funds were to be distributed to independent makers in those areas.
1979 The International Video Art Symposium Chronology
Program of the International Video Art Symposium held at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, March 5-7, 1979; the transcript assembles papers and texts by Wulf Herzogenrath (Video Artists and Television as a Medium), Ian Murray (Support Structures for Artists Working with Videotape), Susan Britton (Video Lunch) and Paul Wong (Making Video: Cable Access, Artists Cooperatives, Fees and Rights). It also includes contributions by David Hall, Maria Bicocchi, Kate Craig, Michael Goldberg, Clive Robertson and Jamie Davidovich, and reprints from Video as a Community or Political Tool, Vancouver Art Gallery.
1979 The Television Laboratory at WNET TV Chronology
The Television Laboratory at WNET TV awarded 11 grants through the Artists in Residence Program and the Independent Documentary Fund. Recipients included Mitchell Kriegman (Door Stories); Dan Reeves (untitled); Warrington Hudlin (Gypsy Cab); Anita Thacher (Small Talk); Ralph Hocking (untitled); Sally Shapiro and Frank Foster (Audio Visual Jazz); Robert Holguin (Crystal: The Brown Out); Ira Wohl (A Woman's Decision); Ross McElwee with Michael Negroponte and Alexandra Anthony (The Disappeared Ones); Robert Van Leirop (The Class of '54); and Martha Sandlin (A Lady Named Baybie).
1979 Video by Videomakers Chronology
Video by Videomakers exhibition series 1979, at the Experimental TV Center, curated by Peer Bode. Works and personal presentations by Ralph Hocking, Gary Hill, Shigeko Kubota, Ernie Gusella.
1979 Video by Videomakers Chronology
Video by Videomakers exhibition series 1979, at the Experimental TV Center, curated by Peer Bode. Works and personal presentations by Ralph Hocking, Gary Hill, Shigeko Kubota, Ernie Gusella.
1979 Video Modular System Chronology
Bill Etra, Dan Sandin, Lee Felsenstein, Bill Hearn design Video Modular System
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
1979 WNED-TV Chronology
WNED-TV, PBS affiliate in Buffalo. Broadcast of Vasulka Video, by Woody and Steina Vasulka
1979 WNET/13 Chronology
WNET/13, New York City, independent video series, "Video/Television Review" (VTR) becomes "Video/Film Review"
1980 15th Annual Avant Garde Festival Chronology
15th Annual Avant Garde Festival
1980 An Alliance for the Media Arts in America Chronology
Founding conference for the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers held in Boulder, CO, May 29–31, 1980; conference report published by the Rocky Mountain Film Center and attended by over 130 participants. By-laws were approved establishing NAMAC's organizational structure and 17 distinct project areas were identified, including a feasibility study for a media arts center computer network and surveys of post-production and filmmaker's lab needs. The 1980–81 Board Chair was Robert Haller (Anthology Film Archives) and the Boulder conference staff Director was Virgil Grillo (Rocky Mountain Film Center); NYS member organizations included AIVF, Anthology Film Archives, Film Forum and Museum of Modern Art.
1980 Anthology Film Archives Chronology
Anthology Film Archives (AFA), New York City receives New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program funds to preserve 16mm independent films
1980 Apple III Chronology
Apple III introduced
1980 ARPANET Chronology
ARPANET hit by virus and halts
1980 Art at the Olympics Chronology
Art at the Olympics is funded to commission independent video projects for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid. Artists funded include Skip Blumberg, Kit Fitzgerald/John Sanborn and Nam June Paik.