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John Columbus People
John Columbus developed an interest in filmmaking at an early age after a trip to the Edison Labs in West Orange, NJ; he attended the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts and transferred to Swain School of Design, now part of Southeastern Massachusetts University in New Bedford, MA. He served as director of the Thomas Edison-Black Maria Film & Video Festival; festival website: http://www.blackmariafilmfestival.org/index.php
1904 John Flemming Chronology
John Flemming invents diode vacuum tube
John G. Hanhardt People
John G. Hanhardt is Senior curator of film and media arts at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; he holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and an M.A. from New York University. He was film coordinator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1972–74) and curator and head of the film and video department at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1974–96). He curated exhibitions and film and video series at the Whitney and Guggenheim, edited Video Culture: A Critical Investigation (1986) and received the Peter Norton Family Foundation Curator's Grant (1993).
1981 John Giancola Chronology
John Giancola. Director, Media Program, New York State Council on the Arts. 1981-1984
John Giancola People
John Giancola holds a B.A. from Oklahoma State University (1966) and an M.A. from the University of South Florida (1991); he is Professor of Communications at the University of Tampa. He taught video for twenty-five years and focuses students' attention on the values and motives behind communication. His professional work includes writing for network television, working in community development media and serving as Director of Media Arts for the New York State Council of the Arts; he has commented on broadcast issues such as political production and the hidden messages of TV commercials and is particularly fond of independent video.
1965 John Hightower Chronology
In August 1965 NYSCA Executive Director John Hightower convened an advisory group to plan how the Council could disseminate distribution information and tour films to communities throughout the state; participants included Ralph Hetzel, acting head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Margareta Akermark of the Museum of Modern Art's Film Library; Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16 and Program Director of the newly-founded New York Film Festival; and producers Arthur Meyer and Dore Shary, who soon after became New York City's first Commissioner of Cultural Affairs. The convening resulted in the Film Project directed by Peter Bradley.
John Klima People
Circa 1978, Brooklyn-based Klima (b. 1965) attempted to code a 3D maze on a TRS-80 with 4k RAM and failed miserably. He has been obsessed with 3D ever since. Fascinated by the first primitive flight simulators and CAD programs, he began to build 3D graphics environments, and to write source code. Kl…
John Knecht People
Professor of Film and Video in the Department of Art and Art History at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York; programmer for the Alternative Cinema series at Colgate and curator of MOTION at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Experimental film and video artist active since 1973 with screenings at international festivals including Viper Festival (Basel), European Media Arts Festival (Osnabruck), Dallas Video Festival and World Wide Video Festival (the Haag). Has received awards including the Judges Award at Black Maria Festival and Juror's Citation at the American Film Institute Video Festival; exhibits and single-channel tapes and 16mm films are available from the artist and New York Filmmaker's Coop. Ten video installations were constructed between 1984 and 2000.
John Knecht: Animating Destiny Bibliography
John Knecht: Animating Destiny. Catalog includes an Introduction and Acknowledgments by Elizabeth Licata, an Artist's Statement with the following paragraphs and titles: The Video Tapes: "The Possible Fog of Heaven," "301 Nails... No Air Loss, 1995," and "The POXIOX Study: Tales of the End of the Wo…
John Manning People
John Manning served as Associate Professor of Art and Technology Studies (1982) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and holds a BA (1974) from the University of Chicago and an MFA (1981) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; his work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Galleria F15 (Norway), Bosgarren Kolectiboa (Spain), Pompidou Center (Paris) and Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada). He has received the Tokyo International Video Festival Award of Excellence, an NEA/American Film Institute Regional Fellowship, an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship and a Chicago International Film Festival Special Merit Award.
John Minkowsky People
John Minkowsky studied literature and media at the State University of New York at Buffalo and in 1977 became Video and Electronic Arts Curator and Music Programmer at Media Study/Buffalo; he taught at Visual Studies Workshop, the Center for Media Study, and the San Francisco Art Institute. His writing appeared in Afterimage, Video 81, and Ear Magazine; he served on advisory panels for the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ohio Arts Council and received recognition for his critical writing from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He programmed exhibitions and series that traveled to major cultural centers worldwide, including The Moving Image Statewide and Video/TV: Humor/Comedy The Electronic Arts.
John Orentlicher People
John Oreltlicher holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, and has taught in the Department of Art Media Studies at Syracuse University since 1976; he also taught at the American Film Institute's Faculty Workshop and received multiple Fulbright Scholar awards. His film and video work has been exhibited in Spain, Argentina, Chile and Canada and has been recognized by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His videography spans 1983–1996.
John Phillips People
John Phillips is an intermedia artist whose selected performances and installations (1986–2005) include video projections, multimedia and sound/light environments; he frequently collaborated with sculptor Carolyn Healy and held residencies at the Experimental Television Center (Owego, NY) and the Millay Colony (Austerlitz, NY). His work was exhibited at institutions and events including the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), International Computer Music Conference (Beijing, Ann Arbor), Cini Foundation (Venice) and Eastern State Penitentiary; he received multiple Pennsylvania Council on the Arts awards and a 1995 NEA Fellowship in Sound Art. He has taught as Adjunct Professor of Digital Media at the University of the Arts and in Communications at Arcadia University.
John Plenge - ToneFactory People
John Plenge (aka ToneFactory) is an ASCAP, OBIE and NYSCA award-winning composer, sound designer and music producer based in New York City who creates music and sonic environments for film, recording artists and performance. His work was featured this fall at Ars Electronica and in the Festival International du Film d'Environnement (Paris) and in a new animated Peanuts video game series. He teaches at The New School University; he has two large-scale multimedia theater projects with Mabou Mines and the 3 Legged Dog Media and Theater Group due in 2008, and his film scores screened at Cannes (2006) and won Best Sound Design at the Sante Fe Film Festival.
John Pruitt People
John Pruitt holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from New York University; he is a writer and lecturer on filmmaking and film history. He taught at Queens College, Cooper Union, Princeton University, and the Collective for Living Cinema; he served as associate editor of Downtown Review from 1978 to 1981. He has published articles on film, video, and poetry and coedited Ten Years of Living Cinema (1982); since 1981 he has been Associate Professor of Film at Bard.
1978 John Reilly Chronology
John Reilly, an independent documentary producer and the Director of Global Village, a regional media center in New York City, led a long-term project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, the Rockefeller Foundation and the SONY Corporation of America to visit over twenty American cities to gather independent makers at local television stations and to introduce developing video technologies; he organized discussions about collaboration in program production. He extended the project by holding conferences on The Independent Producer and Public Television in major American cities, including New York at The Museum of Modem Art in March, 1978.
John Reilly People
John Reilly was born in 1939. He received a B.A. from Seton Hall University, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Communications Research from New York University. From 1967-69, Reilly was Chairman of the Film and Television Department at the New York Institute of Technology. In 1969, he co-founded the Global…
John Roach People
John Roach searches for surprises produced when visual and aural phenomena are thrown out of synch; he elicits unexpected results from mundane objects and employs materials ranging from suitcases and old furniture to cheap electronic kits and hardware. Exhibitions include numerous Kenny Schachter exhibitions and other group-exhibition venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn, Santa Fe, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Mexico City. Multimedia projects comprise sound works to accompany video, a web-based collaborative composition game entitled DICTIONARY and Negative Space, and a streaming audio and video web collaboration with Spaceboat TV in Seattle; he has received Finishing Funds awards from the Experimental Television Center and lists a website at http://www.johnroach.net
John Rosenbaum People
John Rosenbaum began as a radio and television producer, writer and director and later taught on the communication faculties at Bucks College and Ithaca College; he was a Fulbright scholar in Germany and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He co-authored the fourth edition of the McGraw-Hill textbook Television Production, published award-winning research recognized by the Broadcast Education Association and the International Communication Association, holds a doctorate from Columbia, master's degrees from Columbia and Temple and a bachelor's from Pennsylvania State University, and researches the relationship between media policies, practices and cultures in Europe.
John Scott People
John Scott is a field producer with Street Cents on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; he has received a Gemini Award for best youth series. He has directed 11 independent film and/or video works screened in the United States, Canada and South America. His feature-length Scouts Are Cancelled premiered in 2007 at Hot Docs in Toronto; Dear Pam won five awards and was one of eight Canadian documentaries chosen to screen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
1973 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Chronology
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation awards first video fellowship
John Simonton People
John Simonton founded and led PAiA Electronics and designed hundreds of electronic-music products, including the Gnome MicroSynthesizer and the PAiA Programmable Drum Set. He founded PAiA Electronics, Inc. in Oklahoma City in 1968; published Polyphony (first published 1975), later renamed Electronic Musician and sold to Mix Publications in 1985; and co-founded High Technology, Inc., Oklahoma's first computer store (1976) and its first Apple wholesale distributor (1977). Born in Honolulu and raised in New Orleans, he completed electrical engineering and psychology degrees at Louisiana Tech in 1967, worked at Tinker A.F.B., and died in 2005.
1978 John Sturgeon Chronology
John Sturgeon: Two Video Installations, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1/21/78-2/19/78. Catalog introduction by David Ross.
John Sturgeon: Two Video Installations Bibliography
John Sturgeon: Two Video Installations Bibliography
John Sturgeon