Upstate Media Group Forms

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• Media Arts/New York: A Directory of Media Alliance Members Bibliography

  program descriptions for member organizations. Upstate members: Squeaky Wheel; Center for Photography at Woodstock; Cornell Cinema; Department of Media Study at University of Buffalo; Experimental Television Center; Hallwalls; Lockport Community Cable Commission; Port Washington Public Library; Visu…

• A Squeaky History Groups

  Squeaky Wheel (also Buffalo Media Resources) formed from community meetings in 1985–87 following the 1985 closure of Media Study/Buffalo; Julie Zando was appointed director and founding members included Tony Conrad and Chris Hill. The organization operated equipment access (SWAP), workshops, internships, a weekly public-access show (Axlegrease) and the seasonal publication The Squealer (first Upstate issue 1988); it obtained NYSCA funding (initial $22,000 in 1986) and additional support from the Buffalo Foundation, Wendt Foundation, Benton Foundation and NEA to purchase equipment including a V5000 camcorder, Hi-8 gear and Macintosh computers. Squeaky Wheel occupied storefronts at 585 Potomac Avenue, 372 Connecticut Street and 175 Elmwood Avenue and organized events such as MediaBuff (1988), a Native American Film/Video Festival (1992) and a Digital Art Interactive show (1993).

• Media Buff: Media Art of Buffalo Being In Between Bibliography

  Survey situating Buffalo as a mediating center between New York City and the wider world and documenting its independent media community centered at SUNY Buffalo's Center for Media Study, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and the collective Squeaky Wheel (founded 1985). The text profiles materialist practitioners (Paul Sharits, Hollis Frampton, Tony Conrad, Woody and Steina Vasulka) investigating film/video materiality; postmodern performers and installation artists (Barbara Lattanzi, Julie Zando) addressing spectator relations; and Squeaky Wheel's access initiatives (one Sony camcorder, Super 8, Video 8, Pixelvision toy camera, Axlegrease cable show, work-in-progress sessions). It also notes institutional support including the New York State Council on the Arts and exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, and references programming and criticism from Media Alliance, Chris Hill, Gerald O'Grady, and others.

• Squeaky Wheel Chronology

  Start-up funds to Squeaky Wheel media center, Buffalo; Julie Zando first director. Other Directors: Cheryl Jackson, Robbie Butler, Dorothea Braemer

• New York Upstate Meeting of Non-Profit Media Groups Chronology

  Meeting of non-profit media groups convened March 9, 1979 at Synapse Video Center in Syracuse to continue discussions about forming an organization eventually known as Media Alliance; attendees included representatives from museums, university media centers, community video projects and public broadcasters, including Everson Museum, Experimental Television Center, Vasulka Corporation, Visual Studies Workshop, WCNY-TV and WXXI-TV. A subsequent meeting in New York City involved John Reilly, Mary MacArthur, Leandra Strobing, Tom Morey, Willoughby Sharp, Davidson Gigliotti, John Sanborn, Michael Rothbard, Kathie Bodily and Liza Bear representing Global Village, The Kitchen and Inter-Media Art Center.

• Squeaky Wheel Celebrates Ten Years Groups

  Gabe Rhodes reports in Main (November/December 1996) on Squeaky Wheel/Media Resources Buffalo, founded in 1986 after Media Study Buffalo closed; Executive Director Cheryl Jackson credits NYSCA equipment grants and Hallwalls' support for growth to a 300-strong membership, youth workshops and resource rentals despite never receiving NEA funding. Squeaky Wheel taught workshops with the Albright Knox, planned citywide 10th-anniversary screenings and events for spring 1997, and faced competition from the University at Buffalo and RIT; Jackson advocated a grassroots orientation and expanded regranting, residency and distribution programs.