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2001 International Student Residency Chronology
International Student Residency took place June 4-15, 2001, at the Experimental Television Center in partnership with the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University; the annual working residency provided academic credit through an intensive collaborative experience for graduate and undergraduate media arts students. Instructors were Pamela Hawkins, Director of the ISR, and Hank Rudolph, with Lara Davis as Assistant Director of the ISR Program; guest lecturers included Torsten Burns, Andrew Deutsch, Kristin Lucan and Joe McKay.
2001 Jeanne Liotta Chronology
Jeanne Liotta exhibition at Anthology Film Archives. June 8, 2001
2001 Joe McKay and Kristin Lucas Chronology
Joe McKay and Kristin Lucas presented an evening of work at the Ti-Ahwaga Community Players Theater, Owego, in conjunction with the International Student Residency at the Experimental Television Center.
2001 Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on Variable Media Chronology
Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on variable Media convened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on March 30–31, 2001; it focused on the museum's Variable Media Initiative and examined case studies of artworks in ephemeral media, including photo collages, film performances, video installations and Web sites. Artists, curators, conservators and media experts debated strategies for safeguarding works against deterioration, technological obsolescence and cultural amnesia. The program was organized by John G. Hanhardt, Senior Curator, and Jon Ippolito, Assistant Curator, Film and Media Arts Program; studied artists included Jan Dibbets, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ken Jacobs, Robert Morris, Mark Napier, Nam June Paik and Meg Webster.
2002 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 2002 were made to: Leesa and Nicole Abahuni "Chaotic Robotic Synesthesia" a performance environment investigating a synthesthetic experience, the subjective resp…
2002 Irit Batsry Chronology
On March 28, 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art director Maxwell L. Anderson announced that Irit Batsry (b. Israel, 1957) will receive the second Bucksbaum Award, a $100,000 prize and artist-in-residency given every two years to an artist working in the United States. Batsry's THESE ARE NOT MY IMAGES was produced during a residency at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, in association with La Sept/ARTE and with support from the Department of Fine Arts (French Ministry of Culture). Production was made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, The Experimental TV Center, Central St. Martins College of Arts (London), Grand Canal (Paris), and The Lux Center (London); the soundtrack was by Stuart Jones.
2002 Looking Back/Looking Forward Chronology
Looking Back/Looking Forward was a symposium held May 31–June 1, 2002, as a working session for artists, media arts staff, conservators, and technical experts to address physical preservation of independent electronic media; it was organized by the Experimental Television Center (ETC) in association with Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP), Bay Area Video Coalition, and the Electronic Media Specialty Group of the AIC. The event was hosted by Downtown Community Television Center and made possible with public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the NYS Council on the Arts, with assistance from IMAP and Dave Jones Design; it was organized by Sherry Miller Hocking and independent consultant Mona Jimenez.
2002 Media Preservation Salon Chronology
Media Preservation Salon was hosted by NAMAC and facilitated by Jim Hubbard and Mona Jimenez; the program assembled a panel of preservation practitioners. Panelists listed include Sherry Miller Hocking (Experimental Television Center), Karan Sheldon (Northeast Historic Film), Toni Treadway (International Center for 8mm Film), Stepen Vitiello (The Kitchen) and Heather Weaver (Bay Area Video Coalition).
2003 Finishing Funds Chronology
Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts; with a 2003 award from mediaThe foundation it funded special awards for new media and intermedia performance. 2003 awardees included Peter Bianco (Games for Two), Abigail Child (Cake and Steak), Carrie Dashow (10 Cameras, 60 minutes), Prema Murthy (DE-Structure Series) and others; projects ranged from hand-processed 16mm film and multi-channel/DVD video installations to interactive web-based works, motion-capture/3D animation and performance.
2003 Playback: Preserving Analog Video Chronology
Playback: Preserving Analog Video is a DVD produced by BAVC in 2003; the interactive disc presents technical practices of analog video preservation and the decision-making processes used by artists, conservators and video engineers during reconstruction of video artworks. Contents include Analog Video Basics, with animations depicting videotape composition, tape deterioration chemistry and the video signal; a Preservation Case Study illustrating a real-life preservation process; and The Eternal Frame, a 1976 video art piece jointly produced by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco. The Center contributed research on early equipment and provided photographs, technical data and ephemera for the DVD.
2003 The Unprofessionals Chronology
The Unprofessionals, curated by Lindsay Sampson, is a program of videos, drawings and performances by 20+ artists influenced by the films Clerks, Clockwatchers, Office Space and Slackers; it was exhibited at Cinema Borealis (Chicago), Squeaky Wheel (NY) and Garfield Artworks (PA). The interactive video screening addresses the trials and tribulations of worker weirdos and whiners and stages moments akin to shout-outs at adolescent dances; featured artists include Lindsay Sampson, Flea Batista and Torsten Zenas Burns among others. Much of the work was produced at the Experimental Television Center in Owego NY.
2003 Turbulent Screen - The Structural Movement in Film and Video Chronology
Turbulent Screen - The Structural Movement in Film and Video was presented 29 August - 9 November, 2003 at the Oldenburg Film Festival and the Edith Russ Site for Media Art; the exhibition listed artists in exhibition including Martin Arnold (A), Douglas Davis (USA), Takahiko Iimura (JAP), Runa Islam (GB), Mark Lewis (GB/CDN), Jonathan Monk (D/GB), Pat O'Neill (USA), Michael Snow (CDN) and Steina and Woody Vasulka (USA). A video and film program presented works by a wider roster of artists and filmmakers, including Marc Adrian, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola and Joyce Wieland.
2004 Daniel Langlois Foundation Chronology
Assistance from the Daniel Langlois Foundation in 2004 and from the New York State Council on the Arts supported a project documenting early video/media instruments, including artist-built, collaboratively designed and commercial devices; the research links associated texts, documentation, technical data, maker biographies, interviews and tapes. Content derives from the project's tool and paper archives; the project is electronically photographing devices and in some cases creating moving-image records of tool functioning, and it is scanning related texts, documentation and ephemera such as posters, exhibition program notes and catalogs together with audio and video interviews. The data would be published on the existing History Project Website.
2004 Finishing Funds Chronology
Finishing Funds awards for 2004 were given to Amy and Donna Bassin, Zoe Beloff, Dallas Brennan, Ghen Zando Dennis, Tirtza Even, Kathleen Foster, Roberto Guerra, Barbara Hammer, Lee Krist, Jeffrey Lerer, Cynthia Madansky, Darrin Martin, Mitch McCabe, Rohi Mirza, Richard Pell, John Roach, Sanjna Singh, Pia Sawhney, Samauel Topiary, Gabrielle Weiss and Jonathan Zalben; panelists were Johanna Raczynska and Kathy Brew.
2004 International Student Residency Chronology
Experimental Television Center offers the 9th workshop. Instructors: Pamela Susan Hawkins and Hank Rudolph.
2004 Sponsored Projects Chronology
Experimental Television Center provides sponsorship to a group of video artists, including Mara Alper (Forgiving the Unforgivable - distribution), Alan Berliner (Wide Awake), Norman Cowie (The Dimension in Which it Reigns Supreme), Nic Economos (Book Tick), Megan Roberts and Ray Ghirardo (Rain/Fall), Leah Gilliam (Agenda), Barbara Hammer (Sisters/Resisters), Amy Jenkins (We, Precarious) and Shawn Osnguard (Ghost in the Oat Bin); funders include the New York State Council on the Arts, the Funding Exchange, and National Video Resources.
2004 Strengthening the Media Arts in NYS Chronology
Statewide Media Arts Convening and NAMAC Regional Meeting organized in partnership by Experimental Television Center, WAMC and the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts; about 30 media arts and advocacy groups from around New York State were invited. The program included one day of discussion on issues of critical interest to the communities and a second day devoted to one of four NAMAC think tank meetings held across the country each year.
2004 The National Television and Video Preservation Foundation Chronology
The National Television and Video Preservation Foundation provided in-kind support in 2004 to preserve and remaster 10 hours of very early videotapes from the Center's collection; the works were produced in the 1970s and showcase early analog and digital video imaging tools. The project focuses on early instruments individually designed by artists and on artist–engineer/technologist collaborations, on modifications and innovative applications of commercial technology, and on collaborative relationships and the interdisciplinary nature of early media arts practice; the tapes feature important video devices designed in the early to mid 1970s.
2005 Finishing Funds Chronology
Angie Eng, Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus of LoVid, Koosil-Ja Hwang, Kabir Carter, Abigail Child, Alex Hahn, Eunjung Hwang, Mary Mattingly, Jillian McDonald, Tammy McGovern, Federico Muelas, Laura Parnes, Jennifer Reeves, Jason Van Anden, Jeremy Xido and Adam Zaretsky
2011 ETC Tribute Screening Chronology
A tribute screening for ETC from the anthology DVD set.