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Events by Year
1984
Electronic Visions exhibition curated by John Minkowsky for the Hudson River Museum. An exhibition of installations by visual artists working with video and computer technologies. Steina Vasulka (Machine Vision, video as a perceptual system), Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller Hocking (Nudes, a series of drawings realized on a homebuilt computer drawing system), Woody Vasulka (Images from the Vasulka Image Articulator), Gary Hill (Glass Onion - a multi-layered installation, Happenstance - a videotape exploring the interaction of synthesizer imagery and language), Dan Sandin (computer-produced holograms).
1984
The New York City Experimental Video and Film Festival. Curator: Hunter Yoder. Artists included Darrell Wilson, Ilene Seagalove, Cindy Kleine, Raphael Bendahan, Lynn Vance and Leighton Pierce, Robert Rose, Jill Kroesen, Aline Mayer and Bradley Eros.
1984
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) creates Individual Artists Programs to oversee support to filmmakers, media artists and other artists
1984
Mid-Hudson Library System, Poughkeepsie, funded to create an on-going electronic Union Catalogue listing of all film and video holdings in public library systems in New York State. Mary Keelan.
1984
Revising Romance: New Feminist Video for American Federation of Arts and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Curators: Linda Podheiser, Bob Riley. Artists included Deans Keppel, Ann-Sargent Wooster
1984
Rochester Black Film Festival organized by Ombowale Ayorinde. Programming included work by AFrican, Hispanic, African American and other Third World filmmakers. Ayorinde served as Director for 4 years. The Festival was then continued by the Rochester Association of Black Communicators.
1984
SIGGRAPH 1984 "Video and Computer Art". Japan: Meitetsu Hiyakkaten Museum, Aichi; Fujisaki Museum, Miyagi; Yamagata Museum, Kagoshima; Hankyu Museum, Osaka; Daimaru Museum, Kyoto; Iwaraya Museum, Fukuoka. USA:Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico; Evergreen College, Washington; Leheigh University, Pennsylvania; Penn State; Tampa Museum; Institute for Media Arts, Boston; North Carolina University; Rochester Institute of Technology. Canada: Ontario Science Cente
1984
Sony establishes world's first one-piece compact disc players. These portable CD players are the first in a line of products aimed at use in the family car.
1984
Steina et Woody Vasulka: Videastes exhibition organized by Cine-MBXA/Cinedoc. Catalog in French; many photos of work and studio
1984
The Video Data Bank presents The Science of Fiction The Fiction of Science On September 7 th and 8th , 1984, the VDB produced the first Video Drive-In in Grant Park Chicago. A 40" video projection transforms the Petrillo Band Shell into a video version of a drive-in theater showcasing two rakishly orchestrated evenings of video tape programs. Including Jackie O., Michael Smith, Max Almay, Branda Miller, Beth Berolzheimer, Arturo Cubacub, Arturo Toscanini, Doug Hall, Judith Barry, John Manning, Ed Rankus, Wayne Fielding, Graeme Whifler, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Cecelia Condit, Steina, Janice Tanaka, Ken Feingold, Barbara Buckner, Dan Sandin, Barbara Latham , Daniel Klepper, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, Carole Ann Klonarides, Lynn Blumenthal and Ed Paschke, Bob Snyder and Joan Logue.
1984
Video 84: International Video Conference of Montreal. The conference presented 4 interrelated activities: installations, festival, symposium and publication. Exhibitions at sites around Montreal
1984
Visions of U.S.: Best of the 1st Annual Home Video Competition organized by the American Film Institute. Catalog commentary by David Crook, Catherine Richards, Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway, Bruce Apar. Artists included Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, Shalom Gorewitz, Betsy Newman, Marita Sturken, Susan Mosakowski.
1984
Visions of US, 1st Annual video competition sponsored by SONY and presented by the American Film Institute. Shalom Gorewitz ; Connie Coleman and Alan Powell. Both works produced in part at Experimental Television Center
1984
Visions of US, 1st Annual video competition sponsored by SONY and presented by the American Film Institute. Shalom Gorewitz ; Connie Coleman and Alan Powell. Both works produced in part at ETC
1983
American Community Video : Video in the Boroughs at Downtown Cultural Center Gallery Two. Curator: Sara Hornbacher
1983
"In 1983, with pilot funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, Anthology Film Archives initiated a video preservation project. Its three objectives are to: 1.) identify and locate independent video-makers in the United States; 2.) borrow and then rerecord video works that are endangered by age, format obsolescence, etc.; 3.) preserve these re-recordings in the proper termerature/humidity conditions. As of this writing, August 1983, work is underway in all three areas. The next issue of "Video Texts" will present a report on the first year of this project's ooperation." Video Texts 1983.