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The Television Laboratory

Date
1972

The Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen, New York, founded with grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA); directors include David Loxton and Carol Brandenburg.

First year initiates artists-in-residence program with Shirley Clarke, Douglas Davis, Ed Emshwiller and Nam June Paik.

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"The Television Laboratory." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/television-laboratory.

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The Television Laboratory was a unit at WNET/Thirteen in New York; it was founded with grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Directors included David Loxton and Carol Brandenburg; in its first year it initiated an artists-in-residence program that included Shirley Clarke, Douglas Davis, Ed Emshwiller and Nam June Paik.

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