Events by Year

1983

Microsoft releases Windows

1983

First mouse - Microsoft

1983

Path of Dreams: Video in the Boroughs. Curator: Sara Hornbacher. Tapes by Bill Viola, Dan Reeves and Jon Hilton, Sara Hornbacher.

1983

Philips and Sony develop the CD-ROM

1983

Society for Photographic Education National Conference: Photography Within the New Technology/Defining a New Philosophy of Education. Philadelphia. March 17-20, 1983. Speakers: Steina Vasulka, DeeDee Halleck, Ronald Gregory, John Pfahl, Woody Vasulka, Lyn Blumenthal, John Giancola, George Fifield, Tom Porett, Alan Sondheim, Martha Rosler, Ralph Hocking, Nathan Lyons, Jim Pomeroy, Martha Gever, Catherine Lord

1983

Siggraph '83 Exhibition of Computer Art at Isetan Museum of Art August 4-16, 1983. Traveling to sites throughout US. July 1983-May 1984. still prints by Ralph Hocking; Walter Wright; Barbara Buckner; Connie Coleman and Alan Powell; Tom DeWitt. Travelled to: France: Maison Cinema, Grenoble; Maison Culture, Chalonssuraone; Ministry of Culture, Paris; La Chartreuse Villeneuve, Lez Avignon; The American Center, Paris. Italy: City Council, Florence Japan: Isetan Museum, Tokyo; Isetan Museum, Shizuoka; Marui Imai Museum, Hokkaido. USA: Flint Institute, Detroit. Videotape by Tom DeWitt and Vebeke Sorenson produced at Image Processing Lab at Renssalear Polytechnic Institute, Troy. Harland Snodgrass technical consultant on exhibition.

1983

Corporate program, industry funded, allowing artists to use commerical facilites at reduced rates at Standby, founded by Rick Feist and Alex Roshuk

1983

Syquest introduces its SyQuest storage cartridge system

1983

The 6th Tokyo Video Festival 1983. Reynold Weidenaar: Grand Prize for Love of Line, of Light and Shadow: The Brooklyn Bridge, produced in part at the Experimental Television Center

1983

The Electronic Gallery exhibition of works from the Experimental Television Center at University Art Gallery, Binghamton University, 3/2-25/83. Curated by Maureen Turim. Catalog. Works by Gary Hill; Shalom Gorewitz; Mary Ross; Ralph Hocking; Peer Bode; Barbara Buckner; Hank Linhart.

1983

The Electronic Gallery at University Art Gallery, Binghamton. Curated by Maureen Turim. Tape exhibition of works from the Experimental TV Center by Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller; Henry Linhart; Shalom Gorewitz; Peer Bode; Barbara Buckner; Gary Hill. Still images by Mary Ross, Peer Bode, Ralph Hocking.

1983

The Electronic Gallery exhibition of works from the Experimental Television Center at University Art Gallery, Binghamton University, 3/2-25/83. Curated by Maureen Turim. Catalog. Works by Gary Hill; Shalom Gorewitz; Mary Ross; Ralph Hocking; Peer Bode; Barbara Buckner; Hank Linhart.

1983

The Frontier is a weekly series of 13 new programs broadcast on WNED-TV in Buffalo, NY. Series produced by Media Study/Buffalo which curates the series and WNED-TV which provides technical assistance for broadcast. Series showcases independent video and filmmakers. 1983 Frontier series presents 26 titles by 23 artists. Support from the New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Canada Council. Producer Lynn Corcoran, Assistant to the Producer, Barbara Lattanzi, Executive Producer, Gerald O'Grady. Included Steina, John Caldwell, Tobe Carey, Paul McGowan.

1983

The Internet Activities Board (IAB) was created in 1983 to guide the evolution of the TCP/IP Protocol Suite and to provide research advice to the Internet community. During the course of its existence, the IAB has reorganized several times. It now has two primary components: the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Internet Research Task Force. The former has primary responsibility for further evolution of the TCP/IP protocol suite, its standardization with the concurrence of the IAB, and the integration of other protocols into Internet operation (e.g. the Open Systems Interconnection protocols). The Internet Research Task Force continues to organize and explore advanced concepts in networking under the guidance of the Internet Activities Board and with support from various government agencies. A secretariat has been created to manage the day-to-day function of the Internet Activities Board and Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF meets three times a year in plenary and its approximately 50 working groups convene at intermediate times by electronic mail, eleconferencing and at face-to-face meetings. The IAB meets quarterly face-to-face or by videoconference and at...

1983

The Media Arts In Transition, a conference organized and cosponsored by Walker Art Center in association with National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, University Community Video and Film in the Cities. June 8-11, 1983. Programming committee: Melinda Ward, Jennifer Lawson and John Minkowsky. Its purpose was to focus on the contemporary technological, social, economic and aesthetic forces shaping the future of the media arts. Texts by Ron Green, Brian O'Doherty, VIrgil Grillo, Gene Youngblood, Howard Wise, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Nam June Paik, Shirley Clarke, Ed Emshwiller, Tony Conrad, Alvey Ray Smith, Frank Hodsoll, B. Ruby RIch, Renee Tajima, Barbara London, John Giancola, Jon Alpert, George Stoney, Bill Viola and Robert Haller.

1983

The Whitney Museum Biennial. Artists included Barbara Buckner, Bruce Charlesworth, Juan Downey, Ken Finegold, Howard Fried, Matthew Geller, Shalom Gorewitz, Doug Hall, Gary Hill, Nam June Paik, Shigeko Kubota, Martha Rosler, Bob Snyder, Stan VanDer Beek, Edin Velez, Bill Viola.

1983

Early demo of Windows by Microsoft - simultaneous running of programs

1983

World Wide Video Festival, Den Haag. 1983. First Festival in 1982. Catalog of 1983 exhibition in English and Dutch. Skip Blumberg, Shalom Gorewitz, Julie Harrison, Bill Viola, Reynold Weidenaar.

1982

Companies begin to standardize the 8mm consumer videotape recorder format

1982

8th Annual Ithaca Video Festival. 380 submissions. 15 artists. Curated by Gary Hill, Kathy Huffman, John Minkowsky, Philip Mallory Jones. Artists - Bill Viola, Max Almy, Norie Sato, William Brown, Dan Reeves and Jon Hilton, Jim Whiteaker, Scott Rankin, Steina, John Arvanites, Edin Velez, Karen Peterson and Peter Trivelas, Adrele Lister, Jan Peacock, Barbara Buckner, Eugenia Balcells and Peter Van Riper. Exhibited 1982 at Media Study/Buffalo.

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