Events
995 records
1990 Windows 3 Chronology
Windows 3 ships
1991 AMIA Chronology
Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) votes to formalize as an individual-based professional association.
1991 Commodore Business Machines Chronology
Commodore Business Machines releases the CDTV (Commodore Dynamic Total Vision) package. It features a CD-ROM player integrated with a 7.16 MHz 68000-based Amiga 500 $1000
1991 Connie Coleman and Alan Powell Chronology
"Song and Dance", Connie Coleman and ALan Powell, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia.
1991 CSNET Chronology
In the Fall of 1991, CSNET service was discontinued having fulfilled its important early role in the provision of academic networking service.
1991 Finishing Funds Chronology
Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1991 were made to numerous artists and collaborative teams with projects listed alongside recipients, including Benton Bainbridge (Contact); Joan Boccino (Mom Makes Lasagna); Bill & Mary Buchen (Electric Village); Christopher Burke (El Patron); Norman Cowie and Trish Rosen (It's a Proud Day for America); the program included a panel of Shu Lea Cheang, Robery Doyle, and Philip Mallory Jones.
1991 Gopher Chronology
Gopher released at the U of Minnesota
1991 Hewlett-Packard Chronology
Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP 95LX hand-held computer
1991 Information infrastructure Chronology
The National Information Infrastructure (NII) was the product of the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991
1991 Internet Chronology
The Internet includes 5,000 networks in over three dozen countries, serving over 700,000 host computers used by over 4,000,000 people.
1991 Linux Chronology
Linus Torvalds develops Linux, a UNIX operating system variant, in Finland.
1991 Out of Control Chronology
Out of Control 91 was an exhibition at Ars Electronica during Ars Electronica '91; the festival emphasized consequences of technological progress and the dangers associated with increasing mechanization of life and the loss of control of technological systems. During the festival projects were launched addressing global and individual disasters, environmental damage and natural disasters as reactions to these developments; the Out of Control exhibition was described as not aesthetically "beautiful" but aggressive, provocative, critical and disturbing.
1991 Ralph Hocking Chronology
Ralph Hocking proposes the "resurrection bus", a mobile service to clean and re-master old video.
1991 Riss: Kjell Bjorgeengen Videoskulpturer Chronology
Riss: Kjell Bjorgeengen Videoskulpturer 1991 exhibition of work by Kjell Bjorgeengen
1991 Rockefeller Foundation Chronology
Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Ralph Arlyck, Zeinabu irene Davis, Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines, Su Friedrich, Vanalyne Green, Louis Hock, Peter Hutton, Bill Jersey, Zydnia Nazario, Warren Sonbert, Janice Tanaka, Keiko Tsuno, Bill Viola, Marco Williams
1991 Second International Symposium on Electronic Arts Chronology
Second International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Groningen, Holland
1991 Shigeko Kubota: Video Sculpture Chronology
Shigeko Kubota: Video Sculpture exhibition at the American Museum of the Moving Image. Curated by Joan Hanley. Catalog articles by Mary Jane Jacob; Brooks Adams; Moira Roth; JoAnn Hanley; Teresa Valasquez
1991 Symposium on Video Preservation Chronology
Symposium on Video Preservation is hosted by the Museum of Modern Art and organized by Media Alliance, under the leadership of Mary Esbjornson, and by the New York State Council on the Arts.
1991 The Andy Warhol Foundation Chronology
The Andy Warhol Foundation begins the preservation of its media collection under the leadership of Mirra Banks Brockman, work later completed by Dara Meyers-Kingsley.
1991 The Independent Chronology
The Independent, published by the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, publishes an article by Stephen Vitiello and Leanne Mella, "Facilities for Cleaning, Restoring, and Remastering Videotape" in October 1991
1991 The Independent Television Service Chronology
The Independent Television Service (ITVS), a national production fund, is established with Federal funding
1991 Video: A Catalogue of the Artists' Videotapes Chronology
Video: A Catalogue of the Artists' Videotapes published by Distribution Service of Electronic Arts Intermix. Texts by Lori Zippay, Robert Beck, Nicola Smith, Marita Sturken. Tapes available for distribution with descriptions, videographies, bibliography.
1991 Wide Area Information Servers Chronology
Wide Area Information Servers WAIS released commercially
1991 World Wide Web Chronology
World Wide Web released by CERN
1992 Ars Electronica, Pioneers of Electronic Art Chronology
Ars Electronica, Video Pioneers was an exhibition curated by Woody and Steina Vasulka with participation by the Experimental Television Center and Ralph Hocking; the Experimental Television Center supplied many early devices and assisted with public interfaces. A catalog edited by David Dunn contains information about artists-designed tools and systems and a reprint of an equipment manual by Sherry Miller Hocking and Rich Brewster; record dated 1992 and archived at http://www.aec.at/en/archives/index.asp?nocache=511194.