Explore the collection

Block Diagram Bibliography

A block diagram of a systhesizer system. Wright was working at the time on a Scanimate.

Blue Mercury

Need to make more galleries

Bob Devine People

Bob Devine originated Antioch's program in critical communications, film and video, served as Chair and taught film history, theory and media for social change for thirty five years; he helped start Dallas, Milwaukee and Manhattan cable access systems and worked on planning, design and evaluation for access organizations. He served as Interim Executive Director of Manhattan Neighborhood Network, was Academic Dean in 1994-95 and President of Antioch College from 1996-2001; he received the Alliance for Community Media's 1994 George Stoney Award and the Antioch College Alumni Association's 2002 J.D. Dawson Award.

Bob Doyle People

Robert Doyle (born January 28, 1951, Minneapolis) is a media artist, educator and video producer; he coordinated the Media Program at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester (1984–1998), taught in the SUNY Brockport MFA Visual Studies program and was Visiting Assistant Professor in Digital Arts at SUNY Buffalo (1995). He worked as Video Producer for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (1980–84), served in the United States Air Force (1971–75), held residencies at the Experimental TV Center (1987–1995) and received multiple grants including an NYFA video fellowship (1990) and Upstate Media Regrants.

1983 Bob Harris Chronology

Video Texts: 1983. Bob Harris, Video Curator. Anthology Film ArchivesTexts by John Hanhardt, Buky Schwartz, Robert Haller. Screenings at AFA 1974-1983.

Bob Harris People

Bob Harris holds a BA from Colgate University and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego; he served as Artistic Director of the NY State Education Department's Summer School of the Media Arts and taught at Ithaca College, UCSD, and Palomar College. He helped found the Video Department at Anthology Film Archives, was Video Curator at Anthology and PS #1 in Queens, NY from 1979 to 1986, and founded at Anthology the first video preservation project in the nation; as a film and video maker his work, including COYOTE, has won festival awards and been shown at institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea in Rome, Exit Art, Anthology Film Archives, and Palais de Beux Arts in Brussels.

Bob Moog People

Robert Moog began building and selling Theremin kits in 1961 and published an article in Electronics World; he sold about 1,000 kits from 1961–63 from a three-room apartment and moved to producing his own electronic instruments. In 1964 he exhibited circuits at the AES and began manufacturing synthesizers designed with Herbert A. Deutsch and Walter (later Wendy) Carlos; Carlos's album Switched on Bach, recorded entirely on Moog synthesizers, moved the instruments into commercial popular music and attracted buyers including the Beatles and Mick Jagger. The Moog Synthesizer Company did not survive the decade; Arp and Roland developed more cost-effective instruments; Moog later ran Big Briar, making a transistorized Theremin; Robert Moog died in 2005.

Bob Paris People

Bob Paris is a video artist whose work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Image Forum Festival in Tokyo and Documenta IX in Germany; his documentary work has aired on public television. He teaches in the Kinetic Imaging Department at VCU's School of the Arts; his projects use appropriated imagery to critique mass media and popular culture, and his installation Disturbance was exhibited in 2006 at the Anderson Gallery in Virginia and was created in part through the Residency Program at the Experimental TV Center.

Bobbie Tsumagari People

Bobbie Tsumagari is an independent producer, media consultant, arts administrator and cook; she worked as a consultant for the Soros Foundation advising European arts organizations how to function democratically and served as Director of the Kitchen Center for the Performing Arts in New York. She also worked at the National Endowment for the Arts and for private foundations, and she collaborated with Mary Ellen Strom to produce We Interrupt this Program.

Bobby Abate People

Bobby Abate is presented as an artist engaged with ritual, commercialism, self-reflexivity and contradiction; his film The Zero Order premiered at the 2000 New York Film Festival and his Internet video trilogy Real Videos was named one of the top avant-garde works of 2001 in the Village Voice. He is co-directing Certain Women with Peggy Ahwesh, a five-part feature-length drama; he received the 2001 Princess Grace Award for a planned docu-drama about a faction of Britney Spears fans living in Sweden.

Bode Sound Company: Brief History (1998) Groups

Harald Bode was an audio tool design engineer born in 1909 in Germany who formed the Bode Sound Company after moving to the Buffalo area in 1961; the company marketed many of his original designs, including the Bode Frequency Shifter and Bode Vocoder. He published both individually and in collaboration with engineers and designers such as Robert Moog, collaborated with Woody and Steina Vasulka on device design and integration, and presented work at the Audio Engineering Society, Media Study/Buffalo and the Experimental Television Center; his tools and devices are found in electronic music studios around the world. Gordon Mumma described Bode as an engineering hero in the development of electronic music instruments.

Bode videotapes 2003 Bibliography

Bode videotapes 2003

Bode Vocoder Model No. 7702 16 channel model; Bode Frequency Shifter Model No. 741 XR Bibliography

Bode Vocoder Model No. 7702 16 channel model; Bode Frequency Shifter Model No. 741 XR. Illustrated one page sales sheets with description. "...The performance of these 16 channels is further enhanced by a high frequency channel extending from 5080 Hz to 15000Hz, which mainly covers the region of "s"…

Bode's Video and Computer Art Pulses With Nervous Energy Bibliography

1970 "Body Works" Chronology

"Body Works," Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, first video exhibition on the west coast. Organized by Willoughby Sharp. Videotapes by Vito Acconci, Terry Fox, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Keith Sonnier and William Wegman.

Boston Now: Interview with Aldo Tambellini Interview

Aldo Tambellini (born 1930, Syracuse, New York) moved to New York in 1959 and worked in sculpture, painting, 16 mm film and video, founding Electromedia and the Gate and Black Gate Theatres. He produced artist broadcasts including Black TV (1968), Medium is the Medium (WGBH, 1969) and Inauguration '81, and developed the Communicationsphere for interactive telecommunications using slow-scan television and two-way cable TV with Sarah Dickinson. He was a 1977 Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and received project grants from the M.l.T Council for the Arts (1979, 1981), the New York State Council on the Arts (1973), and the Oberhausen International Grand Prix (1969); he exhibited at MoMA and the Everson Museum.

Bradley Eros People

Bradley Eros worked for 20 plus years in the New York/East Village experimental film demi-monde; he initiated, exhibited and curated at micro-cinemas, clubs, galleries, storefronts and festivals, including ABC No Rio, Naked Eye Cinema, Film Crash and Ocularis. His work was shown and curated with institutions such as the Whitney Museum, MoMA, Exit Art, the Kitchen, Millennium, Collective for Living Cinema, Anthology Film Archives and Robert Beck Memorial Cinema at Collective Unconscious. He collaborated with Aline Mare (Erotic Psyche), Jeanne Liotta (Mediamystics) and kinoSonik, produced dozens of 'zines, posters, soundtracks and film performances, and participated in the Experimental Television Center Residency Program, receiving Finishing Funds from ETC.

Branda Miller People

Branda Miller is a video artist, educator and media activist who teaches at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as Associate Professor in Video Art and Media Literacy and co-founded The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY. Her media works have screened and been broadcast internationally and have been used in community organizing and education; she received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the NEA, the Andy Warhol Foundation and others. She authored the interactive project Witness to the Future (CD-ROM, Voyager), which combined a video documentary, Silent Spring by Rachael Carson, over 500 up-datable website links and curricula.

Breaking The Box: The Electronic Operas of Robert Ashley and Woody Vasulka Bibliography

Brendan Michael Ford People

Brendan Michael Ford was born July 15, 1981 in Queens, NY, and moved in 1983 to Worcester County, MA; he attended Catholic High School (1995–1999) and Ithaca College (1999–2003), studying audio and video under Megan Roberts. In winter 2003 he founded Recording Productions with Brendan McGrath to score and produce filmstrips, videos and web content; in 2006 the company created RCP Tones to produce MIDI-controlled synthesized ringtones mastered from DAWs for digital distribution. He is a full-time mastering engineer and archivist at Sundazed Music, a part-time technician's assistant at Tech It Out, and lives in Hudson, NY.

Brett Kashmere People

Brett Kashmere is a filmmaker who grew up on the Canadian prairies and now lives in Central New York; he writes on avant-garde cinema, curates exhibitions, teaches experimental film and co-founded the antechamber and Syracuse Experimental. He has presented screenings and curated exhibitions internationally and in 2004 organized the touring expanded-cinema installation and DVD catalog Industry: Recent works by Richard Kerr. His writing has appeared in journals; his films have screened internationally; he holds degrees from the University of Regina (BA) and Concordia (MA, MFA); his most recently completed film is Valery's Ankle (2006).

Brian Doyle People

Brian Doyle is a video and multimedia artist who produces videos, installations and photographs examining cultural and natural collisions; recent themes include information overload and technology as progress. His award-winning videos have screened on television, in film festivals, museums and galleries worldwide and are included in the video file of Pierogi 2000 (Brooklyn) and Argos (Brussels); distribution is via Vtape (Toronto) and Annexia (Toulouse). He holds a BFA from Florida State University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sculpture Department and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Brian Fitzhugh People

Brian Fitzhugh received an MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University in 2000 after a B.A. from Loyola Marymount University; he began as a lighting designer and performer in Arizona and worked in Los Angeles as a Sound Engineer and Assistant Model Maker for Stetson Visual Services on Total Recall, Dick Tracy and Edward Scissorhands. His LMU short Tumbleweed won the Jack Haley, Jr. Award and screened at the Director's Guild of America; he produced the documentary Money + Politics: People Change the Equation with Dr. Michael Delli Carpini.

Brian Frye People

Brian Frye (born 1974, San Francisco) is a filmmaker, curator and freelance journalist who grew up in Santa Rosa. He holds a BA (UC Berkeley) and an MFA (San Francisco Art Institute), moved to New York in 1997 and with Bradley Eros co-founded New York's Robert Beck Memorial Cinema in 1998 after two years at NYU. His films were included in the Whitney Biennial and the New York Film Festival (both 2002); he has published in New Republic, Film Comment, Civilization, University Business and Independent Film and Video Monthly.

Brian Kane People

Brian Kane, born in Worcester, MA, earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987 and worked in commercial computer graphics for the gaming and internet industries. He was Creative Director at Gamelogic, Inc. (2001–2005), leading the team for the first legal licensed online casino product in the U.S., and he designed the Gamesville.com brand (1996–1999), acquired by Lycos. In the 1980s he co-founded Emergency Broadcast Network and invented the VuJak video sampler (1992); from 1988 through 1996 he worked on commercial holography. He lives in Cambridge, MA, and teaches design at Emerson College.