Events
995 records
1982 Microsoft Chronology
Microsoft releases MS-DOS 1.1 to IBM for IBM PC
1982 Nam June Paik exhibition Chronology
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, presented the Nam June Paik exhibition, curated by John Hanhardt, from April 30 to June 27, 1982; it was the first retrospective of a video artist at a major museum. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalog containing essays by Hanhardt, Dieter Ronte, Michael Nyman and David Ross, and included a bibliography, a videography and color plates.
1982 Radical Departures Chronology
Radical Departures: The 1982 Creative Artists Public Service Program Video/Multimedia Festival was curated by Steven Kolpan; it toured upstate New York venues including ETC, Visual Studies Workshop, Media Bus, Media Study/Buffalo, Ithaca Artists Cooperative, Alfred University, Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library, Albany Public Library, Crandall Library, Port Washington Public Library and Chaenango County Council on the Arts. The exhibition presented video and multimedia works. Artists included Dan Reeves, John Hilton, Lynn Corcoran, John Sandborn, Kit Fitzgerald, Joan Logue, Ardele Lister, Sally Shapiro, Ed Bowes, Jaime Davidovich and Loraine Corfield.
1982 Regional fellowship project Chronology
Media Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts initiated a regional fellowship project; the video and film fellowships were launched by the NEA and the American Film Institute. Grants were distributed through five regional media arts centers representing 35 states; by 1983 every state except New York was represented and NYS artists were excluded. Under the new program the regional ceiling was $150,000 per year and awards could not exceed $15,000; Virgil Grillo was Director of the new program.
1982 Shugart Associates Chronology
Shugart Associates introduces 1.5 inch floppy disk drives
1982 Siggraph '82 Chronology
Siggraph '82 Art Show in Boston, MA. July 26-30, 1982. essays by Gene Youngblood; Michael Noll; Cynthia Goodman. Works by Howard Gutstadt, Gary Hill, Steina and Woody Vasulka; Walter Wright. Work produced at Experimental Television Center: Connie Coleman and Alan Powell.
1982 Sinclair 1000 Chronology
Timex Sinclair 1000 computer introduced for $99.95
1982 Transmission control protocol Chronology
Transmission control protocol TCP established and Internet Protocol for use with ARPANET. This leads to one of the first definitions of an "internet" as a connected set of networks, specifically those using TCP/IP, and "Internet" as connected TCP/IP internets
1982 Video preservation and video crtiticism Chronology
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Media Program gives first grants for video preservation and video crtiticism
1982 Video-Music: New Correlations Chronology
Video-Music: New Correlations exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, DOwntown Branch. Video works by Sara Hornbacher, Reynold Weidenaar, Shalom Gorewitz, Rii Kanzaki, The Lubies.
1982 Video/TV: Humor/Comedy Chronology
Video/TV: Humor/Comedy was a touring video exhibition organized by Media Study/Buffalo, curated by John Minkowsky and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; a catalog essay by Minkowsky and extensive thematic introductions and artist notes accompanied the exhibition. The program derived from Minkowsky's design of a Video Comedy course for the Center for Media Study in 1981 and for the San Francisco Art Institute in 1982; the exhibition was divided into thematic sections and listed contributing artists for each. Distributors of works in the series included General Idea, Electronic Arts Intermix, Art Metropole and Castelli-Sonnabend Tapes and Films.
1982 WXXI-TV Chronology
WXXI-TV, Rochester, closed the artists' editing program, which had received support from the New York State Council on the Arts.
1983 American Community Video : Video in the Boroughs Chronology
American Community Video : Video in the Boroughs at Downtown Cultural Center Gallery Two. Curator: Sara Hornbacher
1983 Anthology Film Archives Chronology
Anthology Film Archives initiated a video preservation project in 1983 with pilot funding from the New York State Council on the Arts; the project aimed to identify and locate independent video-makers in the United States, borrow and rerecord video works endangered by age or format obsolescence, and preserve the re-recordings under specified temperature/humidity conditions. As of August 1983 work was underway in all three areas; the next issue of Video Texts will present a report on the project's first year.
1983 Apple IIe Chronology
Apple IIe computer introduced for $1395
1983 Artist's Video I: Video in the Boroughs. Chronology
Artist's Video I: Video in the Boroughs. at Downtown Cultural Center Gallery Two. Curator: Sara Hornbacher. Tapes by Peer Bode
1983 Artist's Video II: Video in the Boroughs Chronology
Artist's Video II: Video in the Boroughs at Pratt Institute. Curator: Sara Hornbacher. Work by Neil Zusman.
1983 Asian American International Film Festival Chronology
1983 Asian American International Film Festival. Catalog editor: David Low. Introductory text by Daryl Chin.
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.
1983 Changing Times, Changing Needs Chronology
"Changing Times, Changing Needs", annaul conference Media Alliance
1983 Coleco Industries Chronology
Coleco Industries announces the Coleco Adam computer
1983 Commodore Chronology
Commodore SX-64 first color portable computer $1600
1983 Creative Artists Public Service Program Chronology
CAPS exhibition at Downtown Community TV Center on May 10, 1983; record includes an excerpt by Jim Hoberman published in The Village Voice on May 8, 1983. The excerpt identifies 1984 CAPS fellows Abby Luby and Barbara Rosenthal; Luby uses computer graphics and processed images to make electronic tapestries, while Rosenthal documents victims of cancer and concentration camps. The program was presented as a benefit for famine relief in East Africa.
1983 Desktop workstations Chronology
Desktop workstations come into being, many with Berkeley UNIX (4.2 BSD) which includes IP networking software
1983 Digital Research Chronology
Digital Research releases its first version of the GEM graphical windowing operating system