Events
995 records
1983 The Whitney Museum Biennial Chronology
The Whitney Museum Biennial. Artists included Barbara Buckner, Bruce Charlesworth, Juan Downey, Ken Finegold, Howard Fried, Matthew Geller, Shalom Gorewitz, Doug Hall, Gary Hill, Nam June Paik, Shigeko Kubota, Martha Rosler, Bob Snyder, Stan VanDer Beek, Edin Velez, Bill Viola.
1983 Windows Chronology
Early demo of Windows by Microsoft - simultaneous running of programs
1983 World Wide Video Festival Chronology
World Wide Video Festival, Den Haag. 1983. First Festival in 1982. Catalog of 1983 exhibition in English and Dutch. Skip Blumberg, Shalom Gorewitz, Julie Harrison, Bill Viola, Reynold Weidenaar.
1984 8mm video format Chronology
8mm video recording format publically available
1984 American Film Institute Chronology
The National Center for Film and Video Preservation was established by the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts; its mission includes The Film Foundation, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and the National Moving Image Database (NAMID) project. NAMID centralizes information on the film and television holdings of American archives and producers; the Center has assisted many organizations with the cataloging of film and video collections.
1984 Amiga Chronology
Amiga demonstrates new computer "Lorraine"
1984 Annual Documentary Festival Chronology
Global Village's 10th Annual Documentary Festival, The National Tour, is presented as a national tour; catalog essays were contributed by Ann-Sargent Wooster, Renee Tajima and Susan Linfield. Artists listed in the program include James Byrne, Jamie Davidovich, Loni Ding, DeeDee Halleck, Juan Downey, Maxi Cohen, Andrew Kolker, Luis Alvarez, Jon Alpert, George Lucas and Shalom Gorewitz.
1984 Apple Chronology
Apple introduces the Mac $2495
1984 Betacam Chronology
Sony Betacam video recording format publically available
1984 Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System Chronology
Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System funded to build a circulating collection of video art for western New York. Jean Haynes, Librarian, responsible for activity in the program .
1984 Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System Chronology
NYSCA support to Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System to build circulating video art collection for WNY
1984 Commodore Chronology
Commodore 16 with 16KB Ram $100
1984 Commodore Chronology
Commodore purchases Amiga
1984 Connie Coleman and Alan Powell Chronology
"Living in Glass Houses", Connie Coleman and Alan Powell, Philadelphia.
1984 Contemporary Art Television Fund Chronology
The Institute of Contemporary Art and WGBH-TV in Boston created the Contemporary Art Television Fund to commission and co-produce new video works; the Fund accepted and solicited proposals and provided assistance for production, post-production and distribution. Co-Directors were David Ross (ICA) and Susan Dowling (producer at WGBH's New Television Workshop); Kathy Huffman served as curator and had also curated at the Regional Media Art Center at the Long Beach Museum in California. The Fund supported television works and installations, received initial funding from WGBH and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, and maintained a distribution program intended to generate income for the Fund.
1984 Creative Artists Public Service Program Chronology
Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) rejected a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) offer to reassign and share administration of selected fellowships with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). In 1983–84 CAPS awarded fellowships where funding had been committed: choreography, fiction, film, multi-media, screenwriting/playwriting and video; for 1984–85 NYSCA increased overall fellowship support to $1.1 million and proposed NYFA administer architecture, crafts, film, video, fiction, poetry, choreography, music composition and playwriting while CAPS would administer photography, painting, graphics, sculpture and multi‑media. Under Isabelle Fernandez CAPS resisted NYSCA urgings to increase outside fundraising, add a crafts fellowship and contain administrative costs.
1984 Domain Name System Chronology
Domain Name System DNS introduced. Now 1000 hosts on network. Moderated newsgroups introduced on Usenet
1984 Electronic Visions Chronology
Electronic Visions, curated by John Minkowsky for the Hudson River Museum, presented installations by visual artists working with video and computer technologies. The exhibition included Steina Vasulka (Machine Vision, video as a perceptual system); Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller Hocking (Nudes, a series of drawings realized on a homebuilt computer drawing system); Woody Vasulka (Images from the Vasulka Image Articulator); Gary Hill (Glass Onion, a multi-layered installation, and Happenstance, a videotape exploring the interaction of synthesizer imagery and language); and Dan Sandin (computer-produced holograms).
1984 Experimental Video and Film Festival Chronology
The New York City Experimental Video and Film Festival. Curator: Hunter Yoder. Artists included Darrell Wilson, Ilene Seagalove, Cindy Kleine, Raphael Bendahan, Lynn Vance and Leighton Pierce, Robert Rose, Jill Kroesen, Aline Mayer and Bradley Eros.
1984 Hewlett-Packard 600 Chronology
Hewlett-Packard introduces LaserJet printer $3600
1984 Individual Artists Programs Chronology
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) creates Individual Artists Programs to oversee support to filmmakers, media artists and other artists
1984 Mid-Hudson Library System Chronology
Mid-Hudson Library System, Poughkeepsie, funded to create an on-going electronic Union Catalogue listing of all film and video holdings in public library systems in New York State. Mary Keelan.
1984 Revising Romance: New Feminist Video Chronology
Revising Romance: New Feminist Video for American Federation of Arts and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Curators: Linda Podheiser, Bob Riley. Artists included Deans Keppel, Ann-Sargent Wooster
1984 Rochester Black Film Festival Chronology
Rochester Black Film Festival organized by Ombowale Ayorinde. Programming included work by AFrican, Hispanic, African American and other Third World filmmakers. Ayorinde served as Director for 4 years. The Festival was then continued by the Rochester Association of Black Communicators.
1984 Sidney Lumet Chronology
Sidney Lumet receives Governor's Arts Award