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  1. 1966 Challenge for Change Chronology

    Challenge for Change program was begun in 1966 to create films and later videotapes about the social concerns of various Canadian communities. In1968 George Stoney becomes Director.

  2. 1971 Challenge for Change Chronology

    Conference Challenge for Change at NYU convened November 21–23, 1971; 50 participants from NYS met with the Challenge for Change unit of the National Film Board of Canada. The NYU Media Coop gathered tapes and print materials and co-sponsored the event with the Alternate Media Center at NYU; listed participants include Bonnie Klein (Media Equipment Pool, Rochester), Lynn McVeigh (Hunter College), Red Burns, Len Chatwin, George Stoney, Beryl Korot, Skip Blumberg, Videofreex, Gay Activists' Video Alliance, and Michael Goldberg (Video Exchange Directory in Vancouver).

  3. Challenge for Change at NYU: Conference Papers Bibliography

    November 21-23, 1971. Experimental Television Center, Binghamton; St. John Fisher College, Rochester;

  4. Changing channels: media arts in the '90s Bibliography

    Changing channels: media arts in the '90s

  5. Changing License Bibliography

    Changing License

  6. Changing License Bibliography

    KurtzChangingLic_545.pdf Text by Bruce Kurtz. Oneonta, NY

  7. 1983 Changing Times, Changing Needs Chronology

    "Changing Times, Changing Needs", annaul conference Media Alliance

  8. 1967 Channel of Soul Chronology

    Channel of Soul, 16mm film workshop, Buffalo, directed by Pamela Dodes Felderman. One of the first funded 16mm film production workshops. Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

  9. Chapter 6: Pauline Oliveros, Born Houston, Texas, 1932 Bibliography

    Chapter 6: Pauline Oliveros, Born Houston, Texas, 1932. Chapter includes biographical information as well as B&W photographs of Pauline Oliveros. The majority of this photocopied text includes an interview with the artist.

  10. Charles Atlas People

    Charles Atlas (born 1958, St. Louis) is a filmmaker and video artist who pioneered media-dance and served ten years as filmmaker-in-residence with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. His work includes collaborations with choreographers and performers and major projects such as the Dutch television event Television Dance Atlas and the installation The Hanged One, which used rotoscopes, motorized mannequins, and theatrical lighting. He has received three Bessie Awards; his feature Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance won Best Documentary at Dance Screen 2000 in Monaco; his work has been shown at institutions including the Whitney and MoMA, and he was Consulting Director for Art:21 season two; he lives and works in New York City and Paris.

  11. Charles Cohen People

    Charles Cohen is a Philadelphia-based composer known for live synthesizer performances on classic Buchla equipment and for scores for dance and theatre; he prefers live performance and rarely records or markets his work. He collaborated for two or three years with video artist Eric Schefter on performances and studio work, distilled on a videotape available by special order via http://www.el.net/luminists/; the Luminists worked in residence at the Experimental Television Center. His playing appears on cuts by the West Philadelphia group Bastard Finders (1990 releases Bastard Finders and Got One) available from Branzstuff Music via http://web.superb.net/barnz/pages/bfbio.html; a personal site is listed at http://www.voicenet.com/~ccohen/; attribution given to Blue Gene Tyranny, All Music Guide.

  12. Charles Dennis People

    Charles Dennis is an inter-disciplinary artist—choreographer, performance artist and videographer; Dancemagazine described his movement-, text- and media-based performances as physical theater. He received fellowships including the National Endowment For the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his 1993 work Full House toured as a community art project and his repertory includes solo and inter-generational works developed in residency with community participation. He has taught workshops since 1977, co-founded Performance Space 122, produces the Alive & Kicking documentary series and is making the NIPAD-funded film Homecoming celebrating 20 years of dance at P.S. 122.

  13. Charles Varga People

    Born 1958 in Charlottesville, Virginia, Chuck Varga studied Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University and was educated in classical and modern art; he rejected elitist disdain toward popular culture. In 1985 he co-founded GWAR and the communal artist group Slave Pit, Inc., wrote over a dozen stories for the GWAR comic and collaborated on eight productions that toured internationally. He co-authored the feature films Phallus in Wonderland (Grammy nominated) and SkullHedFace; in 1997 he moved to New York City and currently divides his time between special effects work and writing and producing underground absurdist performance art.

  14. Charles Woodman People

    www.videosavant.org. Charles Woodman has been working in the field of Electronic Art for more than fifteen years and has been a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cincinnati since 1999. His recent projects have concentrated on the integration of video in live performances, often in collabor…

  15. Charlotte Moorman People

    Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991) was a cellist and organizer who founded the New York Avant Garde Festival in 1963 and ran it until 1982; she studied at Juilliard. She met Nam June Paik in 1964 and collaborated on TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969) and TV-Cello (1971), with engineering assistance from Ralph Hocking of the Experimental TV Center. In 1967 she was convicted of indecent exposure during Paik's Opera Sextronique, an episode that established her public identity as the Topless Cellist.

  16. Chautauqua Cattaraugus Library System: Descriptions (1977, 1998) Groups

    Jean Haynes developed the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System's 3/4" U-Matic video collection after moving to Jamestown in October 1966; it was supported by the Library Services and Construction Act and NYSCA funded a circulating collection in 1984. Haynes and Survival Arts Media (Howard Gutstadt and Mollie Hughes) introduced portapak works, ran workshops and provided postproduction assistance using 8650 editing decks while co-producing the Artists and Craftsmen Anthology and a visiting-artist series. VHS supplanted U-matic and Hallwalls acquired most tapes in the early 1990s; Haynes published a 1989 Sampler.

  17. 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 .

  18. 1984 Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System Chronology

    NYSCA support to Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System to build circulating video art collection for WNY

  19. 1985 Checkerboard Foundation Chronology

    Checkerboard Foundation recieves matching funds from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for video artists' fellowships

  20. Cheryl Donegan People

    Cheryl Donegan was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1962 and earned a B.F.A. in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence; she moved to New York City to study at Hunter College, where she completed an M.F.A. in 1990. Since her first solo show in 1993 she has exhibited widely in Europe and North America. Several of her works are included in Young and Restless, an exhibition of contemporary video art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

  21. Cheryl Furjanic People

    Cheryl Furjanic teaches documentary video production in the Culture and Media Program in NYU's Department of Anthropology. Her films include TAKE THIS HAMMER and DIMASSIMO TO THE RESCUE; TAKE THIS HAMMER screened at the 1998 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival and won a Silver Apple in 1999. She was associate producer on HBO's BLUE VINYL; her short BAR TALK screened at over 60 festivals and A GOOD UPLIFT premiered at the 2003 Full Frame Documentary Festival; SYNC OR SWIM is her first feature-length documentary.

  22. Chiaki Watanabe People

    Chiaki Watanabe is a New York-based media artist working in video, video installation and live video performance; her practice uses minimalist and abstract aesthetics and digital media with kinetic images, color and electro acoustic sound to create visual music that visualizes sounds and sonifies visuals. Her works have been exhibited across the US and Europe and presented at media-art festivals including the New York Video Festival, Microcinema International, European Media Art Festival (DE) and Viper New Media Festival (CH), and at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (US), Institute of Contemporary Arts (UK), Austin Museum of Digital Art and Kunst hall (NO). She has performed at Lincoln center, Eyebeam, Location One, Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen and Merce Cunningham studio; website: www.vusik.net.

  23. Chika Iijima People

    CHiKA is a graphic designer and live computer visuals artist active in New York's expanded cinema community and VJ scene; her videos use geometric minimalist patterns and original graphics in repetitive combinations. She has performed at venues and festivals including The Museum of Modern Art and Mutek; since summer 2004 she has been active in NYC's experimental music and video underground scene, is a member of the Share community and was featured on Club Chroma on Joost and on Eyewash 3 DVD by Forward Motion Theater; website http://imagima.com/.

  24. Chimaera Monographie Irit Batsry: Traces of a Passage Bibliography

    French and English; texts by Pierre Bongiovanni; Marc Mercier; Laurence Kardish; Stuart Jones; Friedemann Malsch; Uri Lipschitz; Irit Batsry

  25. Chip Lord People

    Chip Lord (born 1944) is a video artist whose satirical works examine American myths and icons, including automobile culture, suburbia, advertising and television; key works include Motorist (1989) and Easy Living (1984). He co-founded the San Francisco collective Ant Farm with Doug Michels in 1968 and participated in actions such as Cadillac Ranch (1974), Media Burn (1975) and The Eternal Frame (1975); he and Michels received a Progressive Architecture award in 1973. He holds a B. Arch. from Tulane, has received fellowships including from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, has exhibited internationally including at Documenta 6 and MoMA, and is Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz; he lives in San Francisco.