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Sixth Ithaca Video Festival

Date
1980

Sixth Ithaca Video Festival. 372 entries; 19 tapes selected. No entry fee. Payment for tapes selected.

Panelists: Pat Faust (WXXI), Ann Volkes (Anthology Film Archives and Electronic Arts Intermix), Phil Jones (Ithaca Video Project), Gunilla Mallory Jones (Ithaca Video Project). Artists: Anita Thacher, Mimi Martin, Juan Downey, Barbara Sykes, Tom DeFanti, Collectivision, Steina, Alan Powell and Connie Coleman, Bill Viola. Exhibition sites: Contemporary Arts Center, MIT Video Resources and libraries and museums in 13 other cities, and widely in NYS. Supported by the NYSCA and NEA.

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Sixth Ithaca Video Festival received 372 entries and selected 19 tapes; there was no entry fee and selected tapes were paid. Panelists included Pat Faust (WXXI), Ann Volkes (Anthology Film Archives and Electronic Arts Intermix), Phil Jones (Ithaca Video Project) and Gunilla Mallory Jones (Ithaca Video Project). Artists shown included Anita Thacher, Mimi Martin, Juan Downey, Barbara Sykes, Tom DeFanti, Collectivision, Steina, Alan Powell and Connie Coleman, and Bill Viola; exhibition sites included the Contemporary Arts Center, MIT Video Resources and libraries and museums in 13 other cities and across NYS, with support from the NYSCA and NEA.

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