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  1. 1987 Betacam- SP Chronology

    Sony Betacam- SP video recording format publically available

  2. 1987 Bill Viola retrospective Chronology

    Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City, presents "Bill Viola" retrospective; curated by Barabra London

  3. 1987 BITNET and CSNET Chronology

    BITNET and CSNET merged to form the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN). A key feature of CREN is that its operational costs are fully met through dues paid by its member organizations.

  4. 1987 Hosts Chronology

    hosts on the "internet" reaches 10,000

  5. 1987 IBM Chronology

    IBM Personal System/2 PS/2, and the Video Graphics Array for 320x200 resolution of 256 colors

  6. 1987 Mac II Chronology

    Mac II $5500. 1 MB Ram, 40 MB hard drive

  7. 1987 Matt Schlanger Chronology

    Matt Schlanger recorded Blue Mercury at the ETC in July 1986 after moving back to New York in the summer of 1985; he had spent the previous year in Owego building hardware for the Center and developing his own synths. He taught at the Center for Media Arts, parked his system in a Soho loft above Arnolds Turtle and later with Hank Linhart on North 13th in Greenpoint, where he collaborated with Hank, Terry Mohre and Laurie Needell and edited Before the Flood on a straight-cut system. Blue Mercury was first shown as a three-minute edit, later expanded to a 15-minute installation developed with Charlie Citron and screened at Monte Video in Amsterdam and in 1991 at the Thread Waxing space.

  8. 1987 Microsoft Chronology

    Microsoft unveils the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet

  9. 1987 PARTICIPATE Chronology

    PARTICIPATE's Directory of Public Access Cable Channels and Related Video Resources in New York State published with New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding

  10. 1987 S-VHS Chronology

    D1 and S-VHS video recording formats publically available

  11. 1987 The Second Emerging Expression Biennial Chronology

    The Second Emerging Expression Biennial: The Artist and the Computer at Bronx Museum. Curators: Patric Prince, Shalom Gorewitz. Catalog introduction by Luis Cancel; texts by Patric Prince and Shalom Gorewitz

  12. 1987 The Thinking Eye Chronology

    The Thinking Eye exhibition at International Center for Photography April 24-June 21, 1987. Juan Downey

  13. 1987 Tony Conrad Chronology

    Tony Conrad publishes several articles concerning methods of reel-to-reel videotape restoration through the NY Media Decentralization Institute and Hallwalls in Buffalo.

  14. 1987 Video as Art Chronology

    Exhibition Video as Art at the Cortland Arts Counciil Gallery ran March 1-27, 1987; guest curator was Sherry Miller Hocking. Videotape screenings and presentations featured Philip Mallory Jones (What Goes Around/Comes Around; Soldiers of a Recent and Forgotten War; Extra Rooms; The Trouble I've Seen) and Peer Bode (Invented Eye #1; Camel with Window Memory; Synthetic Series; Blindfields; Animal Migrations); still images were by Mary Ross, Alan Powell and Connie Coleman; video installation and presentation were by Megan Roberts and Raymond Ghirardo (Momument).

  15. 1987 WAMC-FM Chronology

    Albany's WAMC-FM hosts a conference on "Public Radio and Its Place in the Arts," co-sponsored with the State Office of Education and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)

  16. 1988 1988 Artists' Fellow Chronology

    1988 Artists' Fellows: NYFA exhibition catalog. Video: Mark Brady (Rochester), Jody LaFond (Buffalo), Megan Roberts/Raymond Ghirardo (Ithaca)

  17. 1988 Anthology Film Archives Chronology

    Anthology Film Archives (AFA) inaugurates its new facilities at Second Street and Second Avenue, New York City

  18. 1988 Apparatus Productions Chronology

    Apparatus Productions established by Barry Ellsworth, Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon

  19. 1988 Central New York Programmer's Group Chronology

    Central New York Programmer's Group is established to help upstate exhibitors and educators develop touring circuits for independent film and video. People associated have included John Efroymson, Rii Kanzaki, Jane Greenberg, Ann Curran

  20. 1988 Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Chronology

    Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) established in response to an internet worm on the Net affecting 6,000 of 60,000 hosts on the Internet

  21. 1988 D2 video recording Chronology

    D2 video recording format publically available

  22. 1988 Electronic Arts Grants Progra Chronology

    The Experimental Television Center initiated the Electronic Arts Grants Program with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. The program includes Presentation Funds to support organizations in the State for the exhibition of works of electronic art and Finishing Funds to support individual artists completing moving image, sonic and web-based works.

  23. 1988 Exit Art Chronology

    Exit Art organizes New York's first International Festival of Super-8 Film; curated by Jordi Torrent

  24. 1988 Infermental 7 Chronology

    Infermental 7 (1988) was a travelling exhibition of world video organized for Ars Electronica, Festival of Art, Technology and Society; it ran as a five-hour program featuring work by 58 artists and was coordinated by Chris Hill. Text contributions were by Hill, Peter Weibel, Tony Conrad and Rotraut Pape; an Infermental exhibitions database is available at http://www.infermental.de/.

  25. 1988 International Museum of Photography Chronology

    International Museum of Photography/George Eastman House, Rochester, inaugurates new building which includes a study center, a second screening room and new archival facilities