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  1. Rosebud Cafe: Overview (1973) Groups

    Rosebud Café, founded around 1973, was a community video project linked to the April Video Cooperative (AVC) in Downsville; AVC developed 1/2" videotape as a community communications tool and the group accumulated a library of about 100 tapes, including a 30-minute tape titled The Rosebud Café available from Downsville TV. The project sought cable access on the Delhi system (Newhouse Cable Co.), a public viewing center and a mobile unit with 1/2" equipment to serve as headend, live community studio and mobile TV studio, and discussed a non-commercial channel and originating facilities with Newhouse. The activity is documented in People Visions, Vol. 2 (c.1973) and listed in Radical Software 1973; community comments record plans for drug education, local origination, drop-in space and video training.

  2. Selected Chronology: Media Study/Buffalo (1997) Groups

    Media Study/Buffalo was a Western New York center for photography, film, video, sound and electronic arts; it ran workshops, equipment access, residencies, screenings and exhibitions with grants from NYSCA and the NEA. In 1977 it acquired the 100,000-foot Mars Hotel in downtown Buffalo and rented Super 8mm and 16mm cameras and a Rutt/Etra video synthesizer while producing local PBS programming. By April 1985 heating and plumbing failures rendered the building unusable and Media Study effectively closed; limited equipment access continued through individuals and the Squeaky Wheel collective.

  3. Squeaky Wheel Celebrates Ten Years Groups

    Gabe Rhodes reports in Main (November/December 1996) on Squeaky Wheel/Media Resources Buffalo, founded in 1986 after Media Study Buffalo closed; Executive Director Cheryl Jackson credits NYSCA equipment grants and Hallwalls' support for growth to a 300-strong membership, youth workshops and resource rentals despite never receiving NEA funding. Squeaky Wheel taught workshops with the Albright Knox, planned citywide 10th-anniversary screenings and events for spring 1997, and faced competition from the University at Buffalo and RIT; Jackson advocated a grassroots orientation and expanded regranting, residency and distribution programs.

  4. Survey of Film/Television/Video/Still Photography/Electronic Music Activity at State University of New York Campuses Groups

    Survey of Film/Television/Video/Still Photography/Electronic Music Activities at State University of New York Campuses Introduction to Programs in Electronic Arts in the State University System, 1977 Activities of the University-wide Committee on the Arts Albany, New York Film and Video Activities 1…

  5. Synapse: Personal Recollections Groups

    Robert Edgar contributed an eyewitness account by email on 8/04; between 1973 and 1976 he taught two classes each semester at Synapse through the College of Visual and Performing Arts, a visiting-artist program and a production class in video aesthetics. Visiting artists included Nam June Paik, Dennis Oppenheim, Juan Downey, Jaime Davidovich, Tom DeWitt and Dimitri Devyatkin; Synapse averaged about one visiting artist per month. In the summer before 1974 participants installed the university's first cable system via manholes and crawlspaces, mounted monitors in campus buildings, promoted an alternative to commercial television and drew front-page Wall Street Journal coverage when Wavy Gravy inadvertently cablecast a 16mm Deep Throat into university geriatric housing.

  6. Syracuse Alternative Media Network: Description (1998) Groups

    The Syracuse Alternative Media Network is a non-profit video production cooperative. It was formed in 1983 to produce documentaries and educational programs which would present an alternative viewpoint. SAMN produces and distributes documentaries which examine a variety of social problems. SAMN also…

  7. The Electron Movers: Research in the Electronic Arts, Inc Groups

    Electron Movers, Research in the Electronic Arts, Inc., was a Providence, Rhode Island video-artist collective established in 1974 and active through 1979; core members were Laurie McDonald, Robert and Dorothy Jungels, Alan Powell, and Dennis Hlynsky, with Larry Heyl, Philip Palombo, and Ed Tannenbaum joining later. The group experimented with electronically generated and processed images and multi-channel installations, used equipment such as Larry Templeton’s video quantizer, and spent six weeks at KQED’s National Center for Experiments in Television in San Francisco. Members received NEA and AFI/NEA fellowships, exhibited at venues including The Kitchen, the Everson Museum, and Artpark, and held ties to RISD and the Experimental TV Center.

  8. The International Agency for Minority Artist Affairs - A Brief History Groups

    IAMAA was founded in 1978 by Gregory Javan Mills and is a New York State nonprofit with 501(c)(3) status; it was designated the Harlem Art Council in 1996. The agency ran arts training programs in Harlem/Upper Manhattan, received MacArthur Foundation grants (1995–96) to create the Harlem Media Center, partnered with Manhattan Neighborhood Network from 1997 to teach public-access TV, and donated over 30 personal computer systems and over 10 video cameras to community groups and trainees.

  9. The Kitchen - Histories Groups

    The Kitchen began in the unused kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center in Greenwich Village in July 1971 and opened June 15, 1971; Woody and Steina Vasulka established it for video and electronic arts, which soon embraced music, performance, dance and film. It relocated from 240 Mercer Street to 59 Wooster Street in late 1973 and incorporated as the not-for-profit Haleakala, Inc. in April 1974, later moving in 1985 to 512 West 19th Street. Support from Electronic Arts Intermix, Howard Wise and the New York State Council on the Arts provided grants, including $15,000 to Perception in 1971 and $8,000 directed to The Kitchen; the organization staged festivals and concert series and invested in production-grade video equipment and media services.

  10. The National Video Preservation Center - A Brief Overview Groups

    BAVC proposed a nonprofit preservation unit at its facility to clean and transfer open-reel 1/2" and other videotape formats to Betacam SP or D2, using Recordtech cleaning machines and reconditioned decks; services included subsidized transfers, workshops and documentation. BAVC planned engineering collaboration with High Peak Engineering and archival partnership with the Pacific Film Archive, conducted outreach using the AFI directory, and named key personnel including Sally Fifer and Luke Hones; the Preservation Facility launched in 1993 with support from the San Francisco Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation.

  11. The Television Laboratory News Groups

    The TV Lab at Thirteen was established in 1972 to develop television as an art form and ran Artist-In-Residence programs enabling video artists, choreographers, painters and graphic artists to work with portable tape equipment, synthesizers, lasers and computers and collaborated with Nam June Paik. The Lab administers the Independent Documentary Fund, created in fall 1977 with a $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; IDF grants were first awarded February 1978 and funded works screened on PBS in NON-FICTION TELEVISION (premiered February 1979). The Lab announced a national weekly beginning April 4, 1980; David Loxton served as Director.

  12. The Vision of Fred Barzyk: The WGBH New Television Workshop 1968 - 1978 Groups

    Fred Barzyk, with co-producer Olivia Tappan, established the WGBH New Television Workshop as an experimental video art laboratory that gave artists access to broadcast television equipment and encouraged unconstrained creative exploration. The Workshop, aided by Ford and Rockefeller funding and collaboration with WNET, hosted Artists-In-Residence including Nam June Paik, Stan Vanderbeek, Peter Campus, Gus Solomons Jr. and Bill Wegman and produced national projects such as The Medium Is The Medium (1969) and Video: The New Wave. A half-inch studio opened in Watertown in 1974 with Rockefeller, the Massachusetts Council for Arts and Humanities and the NEA; the studio later closed, equipment helped found the Boston Film/Video Foundation, and the Workshop ended in Fall 1993.

  13. TV Dinner: Descriptions of Program (1990, 1996) Groups

    TV Dinner, created by Metro-Act, is a monthly public-affairs program on Rochester public-access TV; planning began November 1986 and it began airing February 1987, produced by 7–8 volunteers. NYSCA funding in January 1989 enabled a part-time staffer; additional grants and union support bought equipment including a camera and post-production was at Visual Studies Workshop's Media Access Program. About 1990 Ruth Cowing and Nancy Rosin trained 21 groups; TV Dinner added Internet instruction in 1996, helped plan the Upstate Media Festival and advocated during franchise negotiations that led to Rochester Community TV (RCTV).

  14. Video Freex: Summary of Activities and Videotapes (1997) Groups

    Video Freex was a collective active from 1969 that produced community television and video resources; members included Skip Blumberg and Nancy Cain. They worked in New York City and with the Rochester Museum and Science Center in 1970 with NYSCA support, and from 1971–79 operated a low-power community TV station in Lanesville broadcasting Lanesville TV. Media Bus ran workshops and exhibitions, maintained over 300 tapes, published technical material including Spaghetti City Video Manual and Dumpling Ground vol.2, provided access to two portable color cameras supported by NYSCA, and in 1979 members moved to Woodstock to run a post-production facility; contact Video Data Bank.

  15. Video History - Subterranean Video Groups

    SVID also spawned several splinter groups over the years such as Danger Video and d-Con, both of which continued to expand the notion of 'flexible video' further into the worlds of experimental video, media rich performance & installation. In 1986, SVID produced a 'Video LP' titled SubVersions, whic…

  16. Video Programs at Alfred University: 1977-present (1998) Groups

    Alfred University's College of Ceramics offers a BFA in Photography (1970) directed by Edward Stanton, with five courses serving 160 students and photographic facilities; the Art Department also offers video and 16mm/super-8 media courses and screens experimental films using cameras and special-effects equipment. A SUNY survey (John Minkowsky, 1977) summarizes four Multi-Media/Media Survey courses emphasizing production, historical/theoretical criticism and new-media exploration. Harland Snodgrass founded the Vegetable Soup Kitchen; the Institute for Electronic Arts, established 1997 and co-directed by Peer Bode, Joseph Scheer and Jessie Shefrin, supports electronic imaging studios and workshops and received a $40,000 SUNY grant in 1996 to install a video server linking four SUNY units.

  17. Visual Studies Workshop - Media Center: Descriptions of Visual Studies Workshop (1977, 1999) Groups

    James Lohrey's 1999 Media Center Highlighted Screenings/Lectures 1972–Present lists visiting artists, screenings, lectures and festivals at Visual Studies Workshop from 1972 to 1999, noting establishment of the Media Center, Visiting Artist Program and the NO‑TV series. John Minkowsky's 1977 survey describes the Program in Photographic Studies offering an MFA through University Center at Buffalo under Nathan Lyons; the two‑and‑a‑half‑year, workshop‑oriented curriculum includes concentrated projects and a six‑month internship. Facilities cited include a Research Center with over 8,000 books, 250 magazine titles and 100,000 images, conservation and restoration, a bookbindery, a travelling exhibition program and a publications program producing Afterimage and visual books.

  18. WGBH New Television Workshop: Background of the The New Television Workshop at WGBH-TV Boston Groups

    In the late 1960s KQED, WNET and WGBH-TV established experimental television labs funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts to give artists access to television. Under WGBH producer Fred Barzyk the New Television Workshop and a Rockefeller Artists-in-Residence project began; the Workshop broadcast Medium is the Medium (1969) and Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe built the first video synthesizer there (1969–70). The Workshop opened a Watertown studio in 1974, donated equipment to the Boston Film/Video Foundation in 1978 and was closed by WGBH in 1993.

  19. White Ox Films, Inc. - Cinemedia Resource Center: Summary (1997) Groups

    White Ox Films, a Rochester, New York non-profit incorporated in 1972 and directed by David Tulbert, sought to develop and publicize conceptual, technical and practical systems in cinema technology, aesthetics and communications and to place film and television in public hands. In the 1970s it presented exhibitions, ran Film Farm (an eight-week summer workshop for gifted high school students) and screened Summer Dreams outdoors at the Rochester Highland Bowl; two projects were funded by the New York State Council on the Arts under Peter Bradley. A 1975 NYSCA grant established the Cinemedia Resource Center, which loaned Super-8 and 16mm equipment, offered workshops and a visiting-artist program, published the Cinemedia Newsletter and pursued technology development with additional NEA support.

  20. ZBS Media Farm: Program Descriptions (1974, 1984) Groups

    ZBS Media Farm in Fort Edward, NY, founded by Greg Shifrin and Pat Anderson, operated an artist-in-residence audio program; the 1974 AIR run (Oct 1, 1974–July 1975) invited ten artists (one per month for five days), was funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and provided travel, room and board and audio tape. The 45-acre studio near Saratoga Springs housed a fully equipped 4-track facility with 12-input mixdown, isolation room, extensive sound-effects library, portable field gear and listed tape machines, mixers, processors and synthesizers. A 1984 brochure documents numerous residencies and field and studio projects by video and sound artists including Laurie Anderson, Les Levine, Bill Viola and David Tudor.