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Preserving the Rhizome ArtBase Preservation
Richard Rinehart, Director of Digital Media at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and Digital Media faculty at UC Berkeley, authored a September 2002 working paper for Rhizome on preserving the Rhizome ArtBase, an online archive of new media art. He advocates emulation—preferably hardware-level emulation—outlines artwork and technology metadata requirements, recommends tools and collection policies, and urges obtaining and archiving legal copies of software alongside a storage-migration plan using optical/read-only media and backups. He recommends Rhizome prepare metadata, storage and policy solutions and join collaborative projects to test open-source hardware emulators.
Pressure Points: Video in the Public Sphere Bibliography
Pressure Points: Video in the Public Sphere in Art Journal: Video - The Reflexive Medium
Private Money and Personal Influence: Howard Klein and the Rockefeller Foundation's Funding of the Media Arts Bibliography
Howard Klein was an arts officer at the Rockefeller Foundation from 1967 to 1986, director for arts 1973–1983 and deputy director for arts and humanities 1983–1986; he personally directed most media grants and promoted public-television research projects including NCET (KQED), the New Television Workshop (WGBH) and the Television Laboratory (WNET/Thirteen). Klein worked closely with advisor Nam June Paik, funded artist residencies and equipment, and the foundation awarded more than $3.4 million for experimental public-television works from 1967–1977 and $1.1 million core support plus a $150,000 startup grant to the WNET lab (1972–1976).
Processing Trauma: The Media Art of Daniel Reeves Bibliography
Daniel Reeves, an expatriate American living in Scotland and France, is a media artist whose single-channel videos and installations—including Smothering Dreams (1981), Obsessive Becoming (1995) and Try to Live to See This (1988)—employ layered image-processing, digital morphing, rotoscoping, archival footage and poetic narration to address trauma. Eingang: The Way In (1990) comprises seven reclaimed tree trunks with embedded monitors, bowls of water and stones and was exhibited at the High Museum and later at Montage '93 and Harvard (1994); The Hand That Holds Up All This Falling (Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Oct 7–Dec 14, 1998) presented four installations, eight hand-painted digital composites, lantern slides, 16mm sound mag film and involved over 150 students, faculty and community members.
Program Notes for The Moving Image State-Wide: 13 Tapes by 8 Videomakers Bibliography
Program Notes for The Moving Image State-Wide: 13 Tapes by 8 Videomakers Sponsored by University-Wide Committee on the Arts. Works by Peter Campus, William Wegman, Bill Viola, Cara DeVito, Andy Mann, Joan Jonas, Woody and Steina Vasulka.
Psycho-Flux Reunion Bibliography
Psycho-Flux Reunion. Paintings as installed at Syracuse Stage in December 1990. Exhibition hosted by curator Peter Sandwall and Syracuse University's Department of Drama.
Quest for What: Video by the HalfLifers Bibliography
Bay-Area video duo the HalfLifers (Anthony Discenza and Torsten Z. Burns) create performance-based videotapes using consumer-grade equipment and degraded signal aesthetics; works cited include the 1997 Actions in Action, Fear of Rescue, Control Corridor and Return to Rescueworld. Their tapes assemble shaky camerawork, color distortion, glitches, fast-forward and undercranking-like motion to stage improvised buddy-movie reenactments of post-apocalyptic scenarios and comic, self-reflexive exchanges. The article places them in a lineage with Vito Acconci, John Baldessari and Martha Rosler and notes the piece originally appeared in Film Comment (Sept/Oct 1999).
Ralph Hocking and the Experimental Television Center Bibliography
Ralph Hocking and the Experimental Television Center
Ralph Poem Bibliography
Ralph Poem
(Re)performing the Archive: Barbara Lattanzi and Hollis Frampton in Dialog Bibliography
(Re)performing the Archive: Barbara Lattanzi and Hollis Frampton in Dialog
Reach Out and Touch Someone: The Romance of Interactivity Bibliography
The essay traces the genealogy of interactivity in avant-garde video from nineteenth-century shifts in communal practices and the 1876 introduction of the telephone to contemporary machine-mediated intimacy; it argues that technological developments shortened distances and fostered new models of social connection. It situates the genesis of video art in the late 1960s following Sony's 1968 1/2-inch equipment, surveys artists and movements (including Nam June Paik, Douglas Davis, Alan Kaprow) and venues such as WGBH, WNET, and KQED, and discusses cable public-access, satellite projects, and interactive videodisk experiments. Specific projects cited include Douglas Davis's 1970s broadcasts, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz's Hole in Space (1980), Nam June Paik's Good Morning Mr. Orwell (1984), and the Lister Hill Center's 1971 New Hampshire-Vermont Interactive Network.
Reflecting on the Future of Video Bibliography
Tom Sherman (Department of Art Media Studies, Syracuse University) contributes a 1991 essay, commissioned by Montreal curator Rene Baert, surveying video as technology, art and environment and tracing formats from 1/2" reel-to-reel and 2" broadcast gear through 3/4", Betacam, consumer VCRs/camcorders and 8mm to desktop digital video, video-computers and chip cameras. He analyses roles of engineers, artists and institutions, funding via government grants and equipment manufacturers, distribution, exhibition and archival decay; and he predicts fragmented home audiences with growing elderly demand, interactive digital indexing and increased commercial exploitation alongside persistent access constraints for artists.
Reflections from Owego Bibliography
Reflection written after time in Owego in November situates late-fall observation alongside regional activity; notes a September Visual Studies Workshop symposium Development of Video in New York State 1969-79 in Rochester and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Conference in Cortland in October. Traces twenty years of video practice and a shift from a gift economy toward marketplace models; discusses video and computer technologies, residency conditions at the Center overlooking the Susquehanna River, and concludes with a glossary defining terms such as amateur, isolated, parochial, professional, province, provincial, sophisticated and urbane.
Reverse Engineering Bibliography
Reverse Engineering Plenary Address for Collage as Cultural Practice Symposium, University of Iowa. March 24, 2005
Reverse Engineers Bibliography
Reverse Engineers Tony Conrad, Ernest Gusella, Christian Jankowski, Natalie Jeremijenko, Barbara Lattanzi, John Olson, Paper Rad, William Pope.L, Dylan Reiff and Joe Korsmo, Aida Ruilova, Haim Steinbach, Brian Springer
Revolutionary Pleasures: Wrecking the Text in Compilation Documentary Bibliography
Essay critiques the 1987 PBS weekly series Adventure, broadcast beginning January 1987 and hosted by Dodge Morgan, describing episodes such as a Yukon dogsled race, K2 and Eiger climbs, and a super-8 sailing film while highlighting the cameraperson and technologies like lightweight cameras and the remote switch. It contrasts this spectacle-oriented individualist style with new compilation documentary practices by filmmakers including Jean-Pierre Gorin, Laura Kipnis, Martha Haslanger, Chris Marker, Dusan Makavejev, Fernando Solanas, and Eduardo Coutinho, citing works (Letter from Siberia, Sans Soleil, Hour of the Furnaces, Routine Pleasures, 20 Years Later, Ecstasy Unlimited) and locating the debate within historiography, home video, satellite news, and theorists such as Habermas, Foucault, Huyssen, Eagleton, and Ewen.
Rhizome ArtBase Management Policy Bibliography
Rhizome ArtBase Management Policy
Rockefeller Foundation Proposal - Expansion of the Paik Abe Video Synthesizer Bibliography
Rockefeller Foundation Proposal - Expansion of the Paik Abe Video Synthesizer. 1974. ETC artist in Residence Program; expansion of Paik Abe Video Synthesizer; control systems; signal generator; rescan. ETC artist in Residence Program; expansion of Paik Abe Video Synthesizer; control systems; signal …
Rockefeller Foundation Proposal - Nam June Paik - Archive of Senior American Composers Bibliography
Rockefeller Foundation Proposal - Nam June Paik - Archive of Senior American Composers. 1972. Proposal from Experimental Television Center.
Saving the Images: A Report from the Looking Back/Looking Forward Symposium Bibliography
Saving the Images: A Report from the Looking Back/Looking Forward Symposium
Seeing Things: The Work of Ralph Hocking Bibliography
Seeing Things: The Work of Ralph Hocking video stills by Ralph Hocking at the Community Center for TV Production aka Experimental TV Center
Selected Articles Concerning the Works of Ture Sjolander Bibliography
Archival compilation of articles, letters and notes on Swedish video artist Ture Sjolander and collaborators Bror Wikström and Lars Weck, documenting electronic image works produced 1965–1969 including The Role of Photography (1965), TIME (1966), MONUMENT (1967) and SPACE IN THE BRAIN (1969); works were commissioned by National Swedish Television and employed video-synthesizer and telecine modulation techniques. Commentary and support came from Professor Bjorn Hallstrom and the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Art (Stockholm, 1976); correspondence cites Rutt Electrophysics (March 12, 1974) and a 1967 proposal from The Pink Floyd manager; tapes are held by the National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images, Sweden.
Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents - Film and Video Works Funded Bibliography
Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents - Film and Video Works Funded texts by Debby Silverfine; Daryl Chin; Leanne Mella; Marita Sturken; Pearl Bowser; chronology of activities; listing of grant recipients 1961-1993; listing of individual artists gr…
Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents The Moving Image in Space: Public Funding and the Installation Form Bibliography
The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funded production and exhibition spaces for film and video installations, increasing state support in the early 1970s and moving media art from alternative venues into museums. Institutions cited include the Everson Museum (early 1970s video curator), the Whitney (video exhibitions from 1971, Re/Visions 1979, Nam June Paik retrospective 1982) and MoMA (Projects 1971, video department 1974); artists and technologies ranged from 1960s avant-garde closed-circuit and multi-monitor work to later interactive and multicultural installations such as The Erl King (1986) and Color Schemes (1990).
Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents: Introduction to Set in Motion Bibliography
Set in Motion is a retrospective of films and videotapes funded by the New York State Council on the Arts between 1961 and 1993; it was organized from NYSCA planning meetings to review the agency's mission and accomplishments. The text chronicles NYSCA initiatives including the 1967 Film Program, the addition of support for small-format video in 1970, the 1976 Bicentennial Film Project with NEA matching funds, the 1972 TV Lab at WNET/13, and the 1984 Individual Artists Program; it names staff and advisors such as John Hightower, Peter Bradley, Debby Silverfine, Linda Earle and Leanne Mella. It documents statewide training, exhibition and production programs, foundation partners (Ford, Rockefeller) and numerous community media organizations and workshops supported by NYSCA.