Masterpieces of Moving Image Technology exhibition. Museum of the Moving Image. Curator: Richard Koszarski. Catalog contains descriptions and small photos of machines in the exhibition.
Events by Year
"Champion of the Arts" from the New York Foundation for the Arts " to Ralph Hocking "in recognition of his sustaining commitment to the arts community and the needs of the individual artist".
Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to St. Clair Bourne Tony Buba Chris Choy Julie Dash Ana Maria Garcia Jill Godmilow Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton Gary Hill John Marshall Enrique Oliver Yvonne Rainer Marlon Riggs Leslie Thornton Billy Woodberry
Video Skulptur: retrospectiv und aktuell 1963-1989 publication 1989. texts by John Handhardt, Wulf Herzogenrath, Edith Decker
1988 Artists' Fellows: NYFA exhibition catalog. Video: Mark Brady (Rochester), Jody LaFond (Buffalo), Megan Roberts/Raymond Ghirardo (Ithaca)
Anthology Film Archives (AFA) inaugurates its new facilities at Second Street and Second Avenue, New York City
Apparatus Productions established by Barry Ellsworth, Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon
Central New York Programmer's Group is established to help upstate exhibitors and educators develop touring circuits for independent film and video. People associated have included John Efroymson, Rii Kanzaki, Jane Greenberg, Ann Curran
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) established in response to an internet worm on the Net affecting 6,000 of 60,000 hosts on the Internet
The Experimental Television Center begins the Electronic Arts Grants Program, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. Presentation Funds provides support to organizations in the State for the exhibition of works of electronic art. Finishing Funds provides support to individual artists to help with the completion of moving image, sonic and web-based works.
Exit Art organizes New York's first International Festival of Super-8 Film; curated by Jordi Torrent
Infermental 7 1988: A Travelling Exhibition of World Video exhibition 1988, organized for Ars Electronica, Festival of Art, Technology and Society. Infermental 7 is a 5 hour exhibition of 58 artists, coordinated by Chris Hill. Texts by Hill, Peter Weibel, Tony Conrad, Rotraut Pape. See http://www.infermental.de/ for a database of Infermental exhibitions.
International Museum of Photography/George Eastman House, Rochester, inaugurates new building which includes a study center, a second screening room and new archival facilities
International Museum of Photography/George Eastman House, Rochester, Film Department Curator, Jan-Christopher Horak, extends invitation to independent filmmakers to store their films in the museum's new archival facilities
Irwin Young and DuArt Film Lab receive NYS Governor's Arts Award
Start-up funds to Latino Collaborative, New York City, to provide production support services and to increase the visibility of Latino video and filmmakers
Media Buff. Media Art of Buffalo, New York. New York State Artists Series VIII at Herbert Johnson Museum, Ithaca September 9 - November 12, 1988. Included works and catalog texts by Department of Media Study, Barbara Lattanzi, Chris Hill, Hallwalls, Tony Conrad, Squeaky Wheel, Julie Zando. Essay by Richard Herskowitz
Black and White Video exhibition at NAME Gallery, Chicaho, featuring videotapes by Barbara Rosenthal, including COLORS AND AURAS, BODY FOUND IN SUITCASES, KANDACE'S GRANDMOTHER, WOMEN IN THE CAMPS. Program notes by D. Maria Benfield and Beth Berolzheimer.