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1984 SIGGRAPH 1984 Chronology
SIGGRAPH 1984 Video and Computer Art toured multiple venues in Japan, including Meitetsu Hiyakkaten Museum (Aichi), Fujisaki Museum (Miyagi), Yamagata Museum (Kagoshima), Hankyu Museum (Osaka), Daimaru Museum (Kyoto) and Iwaraya Museum (Fukuoka). U.S. venues included Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico), Evergreen College (Washington), Leheigh University (Pennsylvania), Penn State, Tampa Museum, Institute for Media Arts (Boston), North Carolina University and Rochester Institute of Technology; the Canadian venue listed was Ontario Science Cente.
1984 Sony Chronology
Sony establishes world's first one-piece compact disc players. These portable CD players are the first in a line of products aimed at use in the family car.
1984 Steina et Woody Vasulka: Videastes Chronology
Steina et Woody Vasulka: Videastes exhibition organized by Cine-MBXA/Cinedoc. Catalog in French; many photos of work and studio
1984 The Video Data Bank Chronology
The Video Data Bank presented The Science of Fiction The Fiction of Science and on September 7th and 8th, 1984 produced the first Video Drive-In in Grant Park, Chicago; a 40" video projection transformed the Petrillo Band Shell into a video drive-in over two evenings. The programs showcased videotape works by a roster of artists and performers including Jackie O., Michael Smith, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, Ed Paschke and Joan Logue.
1984 Video 84: International Video Conference of Montreal Chronology
Video 84: International Video Conference of Montreal. The conference presented 4 interrelated activities: installations, festival, symposium and publication. Exhibitions at sites around Montreal
1984 Visions of U.S. Chronology
Visions of U.S. presented the Best of the 1st Annual Home Video Competition, organized by the American Film Institute; catalog commentary was provided by David Crook, Catherine Richards, Bob Brodsky, Toni Treadway and Bruce Apar. Artists included Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, Shalom Gorewitz, Betsy Newman, Marita Sturken and Susan Mosakowski.
1984 Visions of US Chronology
Visions of US, 1st Annual video competition sponsored by SONY and presented by the American Film Institute. Shalom Gorewitz ; Connie Coleman and Alan Powell. Both works produced in part at Experimental Television Center
1984 Visions of US, Chronology
Visions of US, 1st Annual video competition sponsored by SONY and presented by the American Film Institute. Shalom Gorewitz ; Connie Coleman and Alan Powell. Both works produced in part at ETC
1985 11th Annual Documentary Festival Chronology
Announcement of Global Village's 11th Annual Documentary Festival at Global Village; program notes by Renee Tajima. The festival's artists include Jon Alpert, Long Bow Group, Steve Brand, Robert Thurber, Arthur Dong, Chris Spotted Eagle, Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines, Maxi Cohen, Xchange TV, Jill Godmilow, Alonzo Speight, Tami Gold, Lyn Goldfarb and Robin Schanzenbach.
1985 Akwesasne Cultural Center Chronology
Akwesasne Cultural Center, Hogansburg, funded for video workshops and to tour Native American films to community centers in northern New York
1985 Akwesasne Cultural Center, Chronology
Akwesasne Cultural Center, Hogansburg. NYSCA funded video workshops and tour of Native American films to community centers in Northern NY.
1985 Alternating Currents Chronology
Alternating Currents was exhibited June 15–July 6, 1985 at the Alternative Museum in New York; the show presented artworks using television as a documentary tool and expressive medium and contrasted broadcast TV programming with alternative video practices. The exhibition argued for other uses of video beyond conventional network formats; it was co-curated by Terry Berkowitz and David Donihue. Artists in the exhibition included Eugenia Balcells, Caterina Borelli, Barbara Broughel, Nancy Burson, Richard Carling, Bill Creston, Bonnie Donohue, Dieter Froese, Alexander Hahn, Sara Hornbacher, Bob Harris, Joanne Kelly, David Kramlich, Tom Leeser, Larry Miller, Peter Mitchell, Rita Myers, Betsy Newman, Paul Nichols, Barbara Rosenthal, Arlene Schloss, Diane Spodarek, Ellin Stein, Twin Art, Eva Type, The Video Band, Warner Wada, Reynold Weidenaar, Diana Wilson and Jay Yager.
1985 Bronx Museum of Art Chronology
Bronx Museum of Art "Art and New Technology"
1985 CD Rom drives Chronology
CD Rom drives introduced for computer uses
1985 Checkerboard Foundation Chronology
Checkerboard Foundation recieves matching funds from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for video artists' fellowships
1985 Commodore Chronology
Commodore 128 personal computer introduced
1985 Commodore Chronology
Commodore introduces Amiga1000 multitasking operating system, $1399
1985 Concerned Black Filmmakers Chronology
Concerned Black Filmmakers/20 West Theatre funded for its independent black film repertory cinema housed in a Harlam brownstone; Jessie Maple and Leroy Patton, co-founders
1985 Dai Sil Kim-Gibson Chronology
Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Director, Media Program, New York State Council on the Arts, 1985-1988.
1985 Diference: On Representation and Sexuality Chronology
Diference: On Representation and Sexuality Videotapes curated by Jane Weinstock New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC December 8, 1984-February 10, 1985 Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago March 3 - April 7, 1985 Institute of Contemporary Art, London July 19-September 1, 1985
1985 "Emerging Expression: The Artist and the Computer", Bronx Museum of Art Chronology
"Emerging Expression: The Artist and the Computer", Bronx Museum of Art
1985 Media Alliance Annual Conference Chronology
Media Alliance Annual Conference took place at The Kitchen, New York City, September 12-14, 1985; Robin White was Director of Media Alliance and Deirdre Boyle delivered the keynote. Programs included Arts Advocacy in New York with Arts Coalition of the Empire State and Alliance of NYS Arts Councils; Video Preservation in 1985 featured MOMA, Anthology Film Archives and CBS News Archive. The Experimental Television Center demonstrated newly designed artists' tools by David Jones and screened videotapes organized by Shalom Gorewitz; a Minority Producers Move in Video program included Shu Lea Cheang and Michelle Parkerson.
1985 Nam June Paik Chronology
Nam June Paik receives the NYS Governor's Arts Award
1985 National Video Festival Chronology
The 1985 National Video Festival was held at The American Film Institute September 19-22, 1985; the program included videotapes by Skip Blumberg and Gary Hill. Essays were contributed by Colin McCabe, John Hanhardt, Lyn Blumenthal, Bruce Jenkins and Robert Rosen; program texts addressed Cinema/ Television Intersections, The New Technology, an International Television Profile, and a Festival Student Competition with an essay by John Giancola.
1985 New Television Chronology
"New Television" series of artists' videotapes inaugurated at WNET, New York City