Events
995 records
1985 New York Foundation for the Arts Chronology
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) begins to administer New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funded film, video and screenwriting fellowships
1985 New York Foundation for the Arts Chronology
New York Foundation for the Arts announced video fellowships to Richard Bloes, Maxi Cohen, Dee Dee Halleck, Kathy High, Warrington Hudlin, Jull Kroesen, Shigeko Kubota, Michael Marton, Tony Oursler, Alex Roshuk, Martha Rosler, Tomiyo Sasaki and Matt Schlanger. Panelists were Dena Crane, Davidson Gigliotti, Ralph Hocking, Ardele Lister and Lynn Blumenthal.
1985 Registered domains Chronology
registered domains first used - first was Symbolics.com, others were purdue.edu, and ucla.edu
1985 Revising Romance: New Feminist Video Chronology
Revising Romance: New Feminist Video was distributed by the American Federation of Arts; it was presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston from September 1 to December 31, 1984. Subsequent screenings took place at the University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus in April 1985; the Northwest Film Study Center, Portland, OR in July 1985; and Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY in September 1985.
1985 The Kitchen Chronology
The Kitchen "Retrospective from ETC: 1971-1985"
1985 Windows 1.0 Chronology
Microsoft ships Windows 1.0 for $100
1986 1986 National Video Festival Chronology
1986 National Video Festival held at The American Film Institute; the program The Other New York: Regional Reflections was curated by Sara Hornbacher. Artists included Sara Hornbacher, Shalom Gorewitz, Mark Gilliland, Rii Kanzaki and numerous other artists listed in the record. Organizations represented included Experimental Television Center and Media Study/ Buffalo.
1986 Anthology Film Archives Chronology
Anthology Film Archives presented exhibitions in Spring 1986; one program, TechnoBop III, was curated by Sara Hornbacher and included works by Peer Bode, Tony Conrad, Jane Veeder, Alida Walsh and Maureen Nappi. Other evenings at the Archives featured works by Jody LaFond, Chris Hill, Brian Springer, Julie Zando and Armin Heurich.
1986 Crandall Library, Chronology
Crandall Library, Glens Falls, NY, with NYSCA support organized "Premiere: First Conference on Film Exhibition".
1986 Deep Dish Television Chronology
Start-up season of Deep Dish Television, providing satellite transmission of community video to cable stations and public television nationally
1986 GRID Chronology
GRID exhibition at Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, 7/12-9/28/86. Curated by Peter Chamberlain. Included installations by Peer Bode; Peter Chamberlain and Curt Dunnam; John Driscoll; Phil Edelstein; Ralph Hocking.
1986 Hitachi Chronology
Hitachi introduces 8mm cassettes as a professional camcorder medium
1986 lnternational Public Television - INPUT Chronology
9th Annual lnternational Public Television Screening Conference, Input, Montreal.
1986 Matthew Schlanger Chronology
Matt Schlanger recounts the origin of the nickname Lumpy Banger from a sixties costume-party prank and describes Lumpy Banger as both a short tape and an installation/video object; an initial 1:04-minute cut was later re-edited to a 10-minute version used in the installation. The work combines video displayed on a monitor embedded in a wood post with a hammer and nails and invites viewer interaction; Schlanger states the piece references African fetish objects and contains no computer, laser disk, or sensors.
1986 Premiere: First Conference on Film Exhibition Chronology
"Premiere: First Conference on Film Exhibition," co-organized by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program and the Crandall Library, Glens Falls
1986 Sony Chronology
Sony introduces the first D-1 recorder
1986 Squeaky Wheel Chronology
Start-up funds to Squeaky Wheel media center, Buffalo; Julie Zando first director. Other Directors: Cheryl Jackson, Robbie Butler, Dorothea Braemer
1986 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chronology
Video on the Air (Department of Video, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; 1986) is a series of visiting artists, producers and curators held in conjunction with the Graduate Video Seminar taught by Beth Berolzheimer. Participants included Lois Bianchi (WNET); Rii Kanzaki (video artist; electronic image processing); Doug Hall (video artist; recent work Storm and Stress links the spectacle of nature with that of technology); Kathy Huffman (curator/producer, CAT Fund, Boston); and Juan Downey (whose videotape series The Thinking Eye investigates Western Art History and culture through autobiography and montage).
1986 U.S. National Science Foundation Chronology
NSF funds an interconnection among 5 super-computer centers at major universities (Princeton, Cornell, UCSD). First freenet is on-line in Cleveland
1986 U.S. National Science Foundation Chronology
The U.S. National Science Foundation initiated NSFNET, an Internet backbone with 45 megabit per second facilities carrying 12 billion packets monthly. NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy contributed NSINET and ESNET; in Europe backbones such as NORDUNET connect over one hundred thousand computers and commercial providers are beginning to offer backbone and access services. Regional support is provided by consortia and local institutions; support has come from federal and state governments, industry and cooperative international research organizations; since 1989 the Internet has emphasized multiprotocol interworking and OSI integration.
1986 Video in the Park Festival Chronology
Video in the Park Festival. August 4-13, 1986. New York City. Curator was Carlota Schoolman, former curator of video at The Kitchen.
1986 WGBH Chronology
WGBH-Boston becomes co-producer of WNET, New York City "New Television" series of artists' videotapes
1987 American Independents in Berlin Chronology
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) organizes the first "American Independents in Berlin" for the Berlin Film Festival. A marketing intiative designed to secure European co-production and distribution of contracts for independent American film.
1987 Amiga 2000 Chronology
Amiga 2000 personal computer announced
1987 Amiga 500 Chronology
Amiga 500 personal computer with custom chips for animation, video and audio