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  1. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1970-71 Groups

    Derived from the New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1970-71; includes a link to the full report. Photographs by Peter Moore, Tobe J. Carey, Bernard Gotfryd and Carole Crawford accompany descriptive captions and quotations; Eric Salzman’s Feedback was produced at Syracuse University and taped by the Educational Television Council of Central New York and is described by Harwood Simmons in the Syracuse Post-Standard. Albert Maysles is shown with his brother in New York City and noted as a participant in the Film Bureau’s speaker program with a quotation from Production Notes for Salesman.

  2. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1971-72 Groups

    From the New York State Council on the Arts annual report 1971-72: a much enlarged 1970-71 legislative appropriation enabled initial Council support for television, video and media projects and increased assistance for film showings, filmmaking, poetry and literature; support broadened and diversified in 1971-72. The report notes productive filmmaking at the MediaEquipmentResourceCenter and independent video reaching audiences by coaxial cable; writers' public appearances and workshops more than doubled with Council support for the Teachers and Writers Collaborative and St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery Poetry Project, and a 1971-72 grant aided small circulation magazines via the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines; entry signed Peter Bradley.

  3. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1971-72: Executive Statements and Financial Report Groups

    Omar K. Lerman reports that the New York State Council on the Arts found 1971-72 (Year 2) equal to Year 1: applications rose from 850 to 1,216 while the appropriation for Council distribution fell by $5 million ($2.7 million excluding a $2.3 million NYPL special appropriation), and 805 organizations were supported versus 600 the prior year. The Council administered over $14 million; Special Programs made 116 grants across disciplines; separate programs served 573 organizations and the Information Center handled about 3,500 inquiries. A National Research Center survey of 543 nonprofit cultural organizations showed $184 million in expenditures; State funding for those organizations was $8.8 million and yielded $15 from other sources for each State dollar, returning the subsidy three times over.

  4. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1972-73 Groups

    New York State Council on the Arts annual report 1972-73 lists Film/TV/Media/Literature Program staff and names Peter Bradley Program Director; it highlights Frank Gillette’s Track/Trace at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse using three cameras and fifteen monitors. Financial tables give totals for 1970-71 through 1972-3 and allocations across major program areas; the director’s statement records 1972-73 grants including 25 filmmaking workshops, film festivals, TV support and a Planning Corporation for the Arts grant for a thirteen-week two-hour video arts series aired on a New York City municipal channel, and literature grants with over 52 applicants in 1973-74.

  5. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1972-73 Groups

    The New York State Council on the Arts 1972-73 film program supported independent cinema infrastructure, stabilizing centers such as the Millennium Film Workshop, Circle Film Forum and Media Study, Inc. in Buffalo; funded exhibition, repertory and museum programs including the New American Filmmakers Series at the Whitney and expanded study centers at Anthology Film Archives and The Museum of Modern Art. The Council backed equipment lending through the Media Equipment Resource Center administered by the Young Filmaker's Foundation, which evaluated nearly $500,000 in equipment and services after $125,000 in Council support. The Film and Video Bureau provided matching funds for rentals and speaker appearances; total film support exceeded $500,000 and affected 60 groups and institutions.

  6. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1973-74 Groups

    Section of the New York State Council on the Arts 1973-74 annual report lists Film/TV/Media/Literature staff with Program Director Peter Bradley and associates Barbara Haspiel, Maralin Bennici, Gilbert Konishi and Lydia Silman; three-year budget tables show total funds and a breakdown of grants, aids and subsidies. Council support for Film/TV/Media/Literature totaled $1,419,525; the Literature program distributed $330,525 to 24 organizations; the Film program supported 55 organizations with $479,000; the TV/Media program made $610,000 in grants to 39 organizations, with named beneficiaries, workshops, equipment purchases, archives and conferences described.

  7. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1973-74: Funding for Film and Media Groups

    1973-74 New York State Council on the Arts Film and TV/Media programs list recipients and grants for film and media activities across New York State; entries specify organizations, locations, grant amounts, and purposes such as salaries, production and operating expenses, equipment purchases, film and videotape rentals, and festival and workshop support. The Film and Video Bureau (administered by New York Foundation for the Arts) provided matching funds for lectures and rentals; the Media Equipment Resource Center (MERC), run by the Young Filmakers Foundation, loaned Super-8mm and 16mm equipment and post-production facilities and reported service valuations and recipient totals for 1973-74.

  8. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1974-75 Groups

    The New York State Council on the Arts 1974–75 report for Film, TV/Media and Literature records total NYSCA receipts of 35,957,900 and program expenditures for Film, TV/Media, Lit of 2,871,133. The TV/Media program awarded $1,233,770 to 42 organizations to establish video resource centers, support artist-in-residence programs (including ZBS Foundation, Innervision Media Systems and the Educational Broadcasting Corporation/TV Lab) and to purchase time-base correctors for public television; it funded a New York Performance broadcast series. Film funding rose to $1,077,172 supporting 80 organizations and expanded film exhibitions and productions; MERC (Young Filmakers Foundation) loaned equipment to 184 organizations and 284 artists in 32 counties; the Film and Video Bureau (New York Foundation for the Arts) assisted 77 organizations in 34 communities.

  9. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1975-76 and 1976-77 Groups

    The 1975–76 and 1976–77 NYSCA reports cover TV/Media and Film programs under Program Director Peter Bradley, listing staff, advisory panels, and itemized statewide grants. Total funds received were $35,947,000 (1975–76) and $29,015,900 (1976–77); the Film program made 62 grants totaling $1,078,549 in 1976–77 and joined an NEA matching project with the Council providing $137,000. The Media Equipment Resource Center (MERC) provided free equipment loans and post-production facilities, serving 428 artists/187 organizations in 1975–76 (saving $677,152) and 493 artists/129 organizations in 1976–77 (saving over $668,202).

  10. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1977-80. Reports by Film and Media Programs Groups

    New York State Council on the Arts Media Program, directed by John Giancola, reports Total Local Assistance Awards with Media allocations of $992,000, $1,075,000 and $1,127,000 alongside total award figures. The report traces the Program from its development in 1970, describes Council support for production and post-production facilities (including the TV Lab at Channel 13 and ZBS Sound Studios), media resource centers and exhibition programs, and notes a new Arts Programming for Television category beginning 1980-81. It lists year-by-year grants to dozens of New York organizations and names advisory panelists with affiliations and service years.

  11. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1980-81. Reports by Film and Media Programs Groups

    New York State Council on the Arts Media Program annual report 1980–81 records total local assistance awards of $30,820,133 with $1,170,000 allocated to media; program staff include Director John Giancola and Program Analyst Arthur Tsuchiya. The report itemizes grants by category—Media Centers, Video and Audio Production, Artists-in-Residence, Regranting Facility, Exhibition, Arts Programming for Television, Service Projects, Facility operating expenses and Workshops—and lists funded organizations and award amounts (examples: Educational Broadcasting Corporation $75,000; Syracuse University Synapse Video Center $41,640; Haleakala $31,740). Advisory panelists are listed with affiliations and appointment years (1980–82 and 1980–81).

  12. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1981-82. Reports by Film and Media Programs Groups

    New York State Council on the Arts Media Program (Director John Giancola; Program Analyst Arthur Tsuchiya) is reported in the 1981-82 annual report; Total Local Assistance Awards are listed as $32,457,400 and Media as $1,176,500. The program states a 1981-82 allocation of $1,306,300 (including $130,000 NEA funds) awarded to 63 organizations; over 20% ($256,723) supported production/post-production and about 20% ($246,895) funded artist-in-residence and regranting facilities to provide access to specialized technical equipment. Funded works included Portraits by Joan Logue, Vacuums by Gary Hill and Gold Mountain Dream by Peter Chow; the first retrospective of Nam June Paik was presented at a leading New York City museum, and the program supported exhibitions, broadcasts, cablecasts, cable television programming and media center workshops.

  13. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1982-83. Reports by Film and Media Programs Groups

    Total Local Assistance Awards: $32,499,000 Media: $1,200,000 MEDIA PROGRAM Director: John Giancola Program Analyst: Arthur Tsuchiya Media Program The Media Program was 11 years old in 1982-83. Its constituents have been uniquely concerned with the production and exhibition of the electronic arts. Be…

  14. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1983-84. Reports by Film and Media Programs Groups

    New York State Council on the Arts Media Program annual report for 1983-84 lists John Giancola as Director and Arthur Tsuchiya as Program Analyst; the program made awards to 80 organizations for 145 projects. The report records a Media line item of $1,173,000 and cites a program allocation of $1,200,000 with $300,000 directed to production and post-production; it notes substantial support for exhibition, distribution, services, equipment purchases and three state-wide regrant programs. Funded organizations named include Asian Cine-Vision, Experimental Television Center, Visual Studies Workshop and Women's Interart Center across Manhattan, Buffalo, Rochester and Owego.

  15. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1984-85. Reports by Film and Media Programs Groups

    New York State Council on the Arts Media Program annual report 1984–85; Total Local Assistance Awards $35,300,000 with Media allocation $1,275,000. Directors were John Giancola (to July 1984) and Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, with Program Analysts Eugene Matta and Arthur Tsuchiya. In 1984–85 the Program awarded funds to 78 organizations for 150 projects (including 32 production awards), allocating 25% ($321,952) to production, 23% ($289,415) to exhibitions and 28.5% ($363,394) to services; production awards ranged from $2,412 to WSLU for the Blue Mountain Folk Festival to $20,000 for Vito Acconci's Discipline.

  16. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1985-86. Reports by Film and Media Programs Groups

    The New York State Council on the Arts Media Program, directed by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, reported fiscal year 1985–86 awards totaling $1,380,000 to 107 organizations for 160 projects, including 40 production and 3 media-collaboration awards; production funding was $360,000 (26% of the allocation). Selected grants included $22,000 to Ed Bowes, $3,000 to Suzanne Frew, $3,500 to Amy Taubin, and a $20,000 minority-development award to Film News Now Foundation/Third World Newsreel; the Program also funded equipment and exhibitions, supported Channel Thirteen's New Television I and II, awarded Whitney Museum $10,000 for technology research, and listed staff and advisory, alternate and extended panelists.

  17. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1986-87. Reports by Film and Media Programs Groups

    New York State Council on the Arts Media Program, directed by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, reported fiscal year 1986–87 allocations of $1,512,129 from the Council's $44,300,000 aid to localities; it awarded funds to 87 organizations for 150 projects, including 31 production awards administered by the Individual Artists Program and $400,129 for individual-artist production. Regrant awards increased from $29,000 to $54,000 and required dollar-for-dollar matching; budget allocations included exhibitions (≈21%), services/distribution (17%), general operating (15%), equipment/workspace (10%), special projects (4%) and artists-in-residence (3%). Noted grants included $25,000 to the Museum of Modern Art for From Day to Night: Installations and Videotapes by Bill Viola, $10,000 for Democracy in Communication, and support for Global Village and Squeaky Wheel; an advisory panel of media artists and curators is listed.

  18. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1987-88. Reports by Film and Media Programs Groups

    The New York State Council on the Arts Media Program (1987–88), directed by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson until February 1988 with Arthur Tsuchiya acting, administered a $1,570,000 allocation and earmarked over 25% ($400,897) for individual artists and independent documentary producers. The Program prioritized production and audience development for emerging, minority and upstate artists; it funded exhibitions, services, regrant programs and operating support with grants to Black Filmmaker Foundation, World Institute of Black Communications, Women Make Movies (Starrett City project) and Film News Now ($20,364). Exhibition, regrant and operating awards supported centers such as CEPA, Visual Studies Workshop, Experimental Television Center and Film/Video Arts and leveraged $54,500 in matching funds.

  19. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1988-89. Reports by Film and Media Programs Groups

    The New York State Council on the Arts Media Program (Director B. Ruby Rich; Acting Director Arthur Tsuchiya until January 1989) awarded $1,659,655 in 1989-90 to 102 organizations for 255 video, audio, radio, and television projects. Funding supported exhibitions and tours, distribution, radio and television series, institutional development, preservation and archival conservation, writing on video art, and organizational and individual production; notable support enabled MoMA's Bill Viola retrospective. A quarter of the program's budget was dedicated to production by New York State artists; the report lists detailed grants by category and names advisory and alternate panelists.

  20. Off Line: A Retrospective 1900-2003 Groups

    Off Line: A Retrospective 1900-2003 The origins of OffLine from an Ithaca, NY - based cable access television program to an arts organization with international reach. OffLine was a national arts organization, cable television screening, and distributor of independently produced films and videos. It…

  21. Port Washington Public Library Media Programs: Descriptions of the Media Program (1972, 1974, 1997) Groups

    The record describes the Port Washington Public Library Media Department and community video program in the early 1970s; a 1972 Radical Sofwtare listing notes two SONY portapaks and AV 3600/3650 editing and playback decks and names Walter A. Dale as project director. Walter Dale's 1974 article reports over 500 community volunteers trained, 300 hours of programming, 250 public screenings and a Port Profiles interview series. Lillian R. Katz secured NYSCA funding with a 1970 proposal, directed Media Services from 1976, the Video Production Center closed in 1987, and the library's VHS collection grew from 200 tapes in 1984 to over 7,000 titles by 1997.

  22. Programs of the Art and Science Laboratory Groups

    Art and Science Laboratory (ASL) is a nonprofit educational and cultural institution that explores electronic and computing arts and sciences as a cross-disciplinary creative domain. Tax-exempt status was granted by the US Internal Revenue Service in January 2000; in January 2001 ASL moved into a 2,500 sq. ft. facility in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Its principal research and education areas include electronic and computing arts, robotics, sound art and human–machine interfaces; the Laboratory is organized into Workshops and Residencies, a Research Program and an Electronic Art Archive and Dissemination.

  23. Programs of the Center for Photography at Woodstock Groups

    Founded in 1977, the Center for Photography at Woodstock is a 501(c)(3) arts and educational organization offering a darkroom and archives. Its galleries and educational resources are free and open to the public; its mission supports contemporary photographers through education, exhibition and publication. Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and corporate and private donors, the Center publishes PHOTOGRAPHY Center Quarterly, PHOTOGRAPHY Building Links and The Surrogate Figure and has supported the Woodstock Photography Workshops since 1979; http://www.cpw.org.

  24. Programs of the Electronic Music Foundation Groups

    The Electronic Music Foundation (EMF), founded in 1994 by composer and interactive-systems pioneer Joel Chadabe, is a non-profit dedicated to increasing public understanding of electronic music; Chadabe published the book Electric Sound in 1997 and teaches at Bennington College while serving as professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Albany. EMF is establishing the EMF Institute to preserve and exhibit historically significant electronic instruments and to archive and disseminate related materials, supported by donations from more than 750 individuals and organizations and grants including the Daniel Langlois Foundation and Yvar Mikhashoff Trust. Programs include EMF Productions, EMF Media and CDeMUSIC, the EMF Calendar and Internet Directory, GRM Tools (co-marketed for GRM in Paris), and the EMF/SEAMUS Professional Opportunities Directory.

  25. Public Access Celebration: July 6,7,8, 1972 Report on Public Access in New York Groups

    Survival Arts Media was formed in 1972 in Jamestown, NY, founded by Howie Gutstadt; members included Gail Edwards, Howard Gutstadt, Molly Hughes, Ben Levine, Danny Bucciano and Richard Malone. The collective produced community education and health programming, multimedia shows and regional videotapes; it participated in the Public Access Celebration in New York City (July 6–8, 1972) and released a report in January 1973. Howard Gutstadt documented the Jamestown studio development (1977), describing equipment such as Sony 8400 portapaks, Super 8, a Kodak VPX transfer system and an Electronic Associates of Berkeley Videolab; the group co-released the Artists and Craftsmen Anthology with the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System, funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts.