Olean Public Library sponsored workshop on rural film exhibition during the annual exhibition series "Rural Images Film and Video Festival"., organized by librarian Jean Haynes.
Events by Year
1988
Post Currents: A Gallery of Electronic Arts. Curator: Neil Zusman. Tapes and installations by Gary Hill, Tony Conrad, Peter Babula, Woody Vasulka, Steina, Ralph Hocking, Tom DeWitt, John Sturgeon and others.
1988
Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Charles Burnett, Haile Gerima, DeeDee Halleck, Paul Kos, Victor Masavesva Jr., Lourdes Portillo, Trinh T. Minh-ha
1988
Olean Pubic Library and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program co-sponsor a workshop on rural film exhibition during the library's annual "Rural Images Film and Video Festival," under direction of Jean Haynes
1988
Spectrum Holobyte introduces Tetris for the PC, first entertainment software imported from Soviet Union
1988
The American Museum of the Moving Image opens in Astoria . The museum provides permanent exhibitions, screenings, seminars and other public programs on film, television and video.
1988
The Contemporary Art Television Fund: The first five years, published 1988. Catalog with descriptions of artists' productions supported by the CAT fund.
1988
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, presents "Media Buff: The Media Art of Buffalo," curated by Richard Herskowitz
1988
Untamed Video: Artists' Tapes from the Experimental Television Center at University Art Gallery, Binghamton. Curated by Sherry Miller Hocking. 9/29/88-10/30/88. Artists: Peer Bode, Barbara Buckner, David Blair, Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, Alex Hahn, Shalom Gorewitz, Megan Roberts, Raymond Ghirardo, Sara Hornbacher, Matthew Schlanger, Reynold Weidenaar
1987
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) organizes the first "American Independents in Berlin" for the Berlin Film Festival. A marketing intiative designed to secure European co-production and distribution of contracts for independent American film.
1987
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City, presents "Bill Viola" retrospective; curated by Barabra London
1987
BITNET and CSNET merged to form the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN). A key feature of CREN is that its operational costs are fully met through dues paid by its member organizations.
1987
IBM Personal System/2 PS/2, and the Video Graphics Array for 320x200 resolution of 256 colors
1987
Matt Schlanger. Blue Mercury was recorded at the ETC in July 1986. A whole year had gone by since making Bad Knees. After living for a year in Owego, building hardware for the Center and developing my own synths at the same time, I had moved back to NY in the summer of 1985. The west edge of Park Slope was still a little rough, and I didn't have much space so I parked my system at a friend's loft in Soho above Arnolds Turtle. I had little work and no money, teaching at the Center for Media Arts, but I would train into the city every day and I made a great deal of video, however for some reason, during this period I didn't record very much of what I generated. At the center we often saw recording as documentation of a real time process, one that could exist as performance without ever being recorded, if only someone else were there other than yourself to witness this performance. A patch would go in, you would work and rework it, until it gets recorded and then another and another. My edits almost entirely followed these sequential recordings chronologically, with a great deal of the documentation cut away. Even with all the imagery that I generated in Soho, all the patches, for...