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1980 The Rockefeller Foundation Chronology
The Rockefeller Foundation establishes a new category to support independent videomakers.
1980 Themes in Electronic Image Processing Chronology
The Kitchen hosted a month-long exhibition Themes in Electronic Image Processing curated by Shalom Gorewitz; it was the exhibition's second year and included a panel on video criticism. Artists included Peer Bode, Ralph Hocking, Connie Coleman and Alan Powell, Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorenson and Dean Winkler, Reynold Weidenaar, Barbara Sykes, Barbara Buckner, Jo Ann Gillerman, Gillerman and Jim Whiteaker, Henry Baker and Jane Steuerwald, Pier Marton, Shalom Gorewitz, Doris Chase, Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn, Gary Hill, Michael Scroggins, Neil Zusman, Maureen Nappi, Janice Tanaka, Marc Casey and Sara Hornbacher.
1980 Video About Video: Four French Artists Chronology
Video About Video: Four French Artists exhibition at University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Teletheque-Alliance Francaise, New York. Works by Paul-Armand Gette; Philippe Guerrier; Thierry Kuntzel; Philippe Oudard.
1980 Video Art Review at Anthology Film Archives Chronology
Video Art Review at Anthology Film Archives was a series of 18 programs presented by Anthology Film Archives in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix; program notes accompany the series. Participants and contributors named include Nam June Paik, DCTV, Ed Emschwiller, WGBH, Peter Campus, NCET, John Reilly and Stefan Moore, TVTV, Ant Farm, Woody Vasulkas, Steina Vasulka, Skip Blumberg, Skip Sweeney and Richard Foreman.
1980 Video: New York, Seattle and LA Chronology
Museum of Modern Art presented Video: New York, Seattle and LA. The travelling exhibition was mounted at Seibe Museum, Tokyo; Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Kobe; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka City; Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art Center, Osaka City; Hekkaido Contemporary Art Center, Tokyo; and Center for Media Art, The American Center, Paris.
1980 Wendy Clarke Chronology
Wendy Clarke's "Love Tapes," an interactive video installation, is exhibitied at the World Trade Center, New York City
1981 Arthur Tsuchiya Chronology
Arthur Tsuchiya. New York State Council on the Arts Media Program, 1981-1988
1981 BITNET Chronology
BITNET (Because It's Time Network) began as a cooperative network at CUNY and provided email, a listserv and file transfer. It adopted the IBM RSCS protocol suite and used direct leased-line connections; most original links were between IBM mainframes in university data centers, with protocol implementations later enabling other machines. BITNET served users across academic disciplines and offered services such as LISTSERV; by the time of writing it and parallel networks (e.g., EARN in Europe) comprised several thousand participating sites and established a TCP/IP backbone with RSCS-based applications running above TCP.
1981 CAPS/ICI 1981 Traveling Video Festival Chronology
CAPS/ICI 1981 Traveling Video Festival was presented by the Creative Artists Public Service Program and Independent Curators Incorporated; a list of presentation venues was compiled and ICI helped to organize a national tour for the first time, with Nina Sundell as ICI curator. The program included works by Skip Blumberg, Peer Bode, Ron Clark, Shalom Gorewitz, Julie Harrison, Neil Zusman, Dean Keppel, Verity Lund, Henry Moore, Antonio Muntades, Rita Myers, David Rose and Joseph Steinmetz; a panel featured Lynn Corcoran, Dieter Froese, Teodoro Maus, Sherry Miller and Arthur Tsuchiya.
1981 Commodore Business Machines Chronology
Commodore Business Machines VIC-20 $299 with color graphics
1981 Creative Artists Public Service Program Chronology
Town meetings occur around the State to discuss ways in which New York State can continue to support individual artists. This was partly in response to the administrative problems of the Creative Artists Public Service Program, as cited by the New York State Council on the Arts.
1981 Everson Museum Chronology
Everson Museum, Syracuse, video department closes
1981 Film Forum Chronology
Film Forum, New York City, under direction of Karen Cooper, reopens as a multi-plex theater with the first full-time independent feature screen
1981 From the Academy to the Avant Garde Chronology
From the Academy to the Avant Garde was a traveling exhibition produced by Visual Studies Workshop in 1981; it was curated by Richard Simmons with a catalog introduction by Arthur Tsuchiya. The exhibition was shown at Visual Studies Workshop December 2-16, 1981 and at the Center for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia January 22-February 8, 1982. Videotapes were presented in the following order: Howard Fried (Making a Paid Political Announcement); Davidson Gigliotti (Difficult Music); Juan Downey (Through the Looking Glass); Tony Labat (Challenge: P.O.V.); Frank Gillette (Symptomatic Syntax); Les Levine (Visions from the God World, (Part 1)).
1981 IBM Chronology
IBM introduces 5150 Personal PC with Microsoft MS-DOS $3000
1981 John Giancola Chronology
John Giancola. Director, Media Program, New York State Council on the Arts. 1981-1984
1981 National Latino Film and Video Festival Chronology
The first National Latino Film and Video Festival, organized by Lillian Jimenez at El Museo del Barrio, New York City
1981 National Video Festival Chronology
National Video Festival: The State of the Art was presented at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, June 3–7, 1981; it was organized by The American Film Institute. The program presented a retrospective of Media Bus, Inc/Lanesville TV; TVTV; DCTV; Ant Farm; Optic Nerve; Videopolis; University Community Video; Global Village; NOVAC; The Kitchen; Long Beach Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; University Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art; and WNET/TV Lab.
1981 Osborne Computer Chronology
Osborne Computer introduces Osborne 1 Personal Computer with Z80A CPU and disk drives $1795
1981 Paper Tiger Television Chronology
Paper Tiger Television, New York City, is established, with New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding for its first season
1981 Paper Tiger TV Chronology
Paper Tiger TV is a non-profit volunteer collective producing video media criticism since 1981; it has created a diverse series of over 260 programs addressing democratic communications, media representation and the economics of the information industry. The tapes are broadcast in NYC and across the US; Paper Tiger distributes tapes to universities, libraries and media centers worldwide.
1981 Personal Statements in Video Chronology
Personal Statements in Video was an exhibition in the New American Makers series at Opera Plaza Cinema; program notes state the works are personal statements by their authors that reflect their take on the world, their relationships and their place in society. Featured works and artists include Barbara Rosenthal, Fingernails and Other Shorts, described as short videos from dry wit to zany goof using toys, puppets and primitive music; Marshall Weber, A Roman Empire, presented as a travelogue analogy of empire; Lynn Hershman, First Person Plural; Barbara Hammer and Paula Levine, Two Bad Daughters, using child-like play to sabotage and subvert patriarchal Institutions; and Marilyn Wulff, Little Stories, a naive and funny account of people she knew while growing up.
1981 Seventh Ithaca Video Festival Chronology
Seventh Ithaca Video Festival received 290 entries and selected 19 tapes; there was no entry fee and payment was provided for tapes selected. Panelists included Barbara London (MOMA), Arthur Tsuchiya (NYSCA) and Carvin Eison (WXXI Artists Workshop). Artists included Shalom Gorewitz, Steina Vasulka, Ed Emshwiller and Woody Vasulka, among others; exhibition sites included the Herbert Johnson Museum, Intermedia Art Center, Port Washington Public LIbrary and Albany Public LIbrary. The festival was supported by the NYSCA and NEA.
1981 Shigeko Kubota: Video Sculpture Chronology
Shigeko Kubota: Video Sculpture exhibition organized by Berliner Kunstlerprogramm des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes. 1981. Catalog editor: Felix Zdenek. Exhibition at daadgalerie, Berlin; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Kunsthaus Zurich
1981 SMPTE Chronology
SMPTE tests digital video and makes recommendations which become the basis for the D-1 recorder