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With support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, IMAP conducts a needs-assessment for a web-based cataloging tutorial and union catalog of independent media collections, under the direction of Jim Hubbard

Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) is established, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Kadambari Baxi, Tom E. Brown, Veena Cabreros Sud, Jim Campbell, Sandi DuBowski, Natalie Jeremijenko, Art Jones, Jesse Lerner, Erik Loyer, Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir, David H. Riker, Jay Rosenblatt, Ira Sachs, Rea Tajiri

Transmission: Exhibition. Bakalar and Huntington Galleries at Massachusetts College of Art. January 25th - February 27th, 1999. David Atwood, Staff Director, WGBH, 1967-1980 Presentors: Fred Barzyk, Executive Producer, WGBH/New Television Workshop, 1964-1981 Russell Connor, artist/writer/producer Betsy Connors, video artist/holographer Susan Dowling, Executive Director, NTW, 1982-93, co-curator, Transmission Michèle Furst, Director, BF/VF, 1978-80, co-curator, Transmission Jennifer Hall, Environmental Design Department, MassArt, Do While Studio Chrissie Iles, Curator of Film and Video, Whitney Museum of American Art Beryl Korot, video artist Dana Moser, Studio for Interrelated Media, MassArt Bob Riley, Curator of Media Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Special presentation on archiving and preserving video art by Carl Piermarini, Program Materials Supervisor and Selene Colburn, Project Archivist, New Television Workshop Project, Media Archives and Preservation Center, WGBH. Performance by Kristin Lucas. Installations include: Text and Commentary, 1977 by Beryl Korot. Egg Grows, 1984, by Nam June Paik. Untitled (MPD), 1998, by Tony Oursler. Three Tales: Hindenburg, 1998,...

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Bill Viola retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art. February 12 - May 10, 1998. Exhibition itinerary included Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Stedelikj Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Catalog includes A Feeling for the Things Themselves - David Ross; Conversation - Lewis Hyde and Bill Viola; Selected Works 1972-1996 Kira Perov and Bill Viola. Catalog of works; exhibition history; chronology.

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1998 were made to: Alan Berliner "Found Sound" - A downloadable and playable interactive sonic art project for the web. Additional support from New Television's NTV Artbytes project. Anita Cheng "The Secret Sharer" - A duet performance of a dancer with herself through a digital video exploration of time displacement between live and recorded dance performance. Abigail Child "The Russian Chronicles" - Bending montage to expand its shape out of the ideological, incorporating ambiguity, daily life, satire and critical analysis within a musical structure, the video references the city symphonies of the 1920s, specifically Dziga Vertov's classic Man With a Movie Camera (1928), but inversely - coming at the end of the century and the Soviet era. Additional support from a Fulbright Fellowship and the Banff Center. Cathy Cook "Beyond Voluntary Control" - An experimental 16mm film which explores the experience of confinement due to physical and psychological illness. Additional support from NYSCA. Ann Curran "Transmission" - A 16mm film which...

Landscape: Mediated Views exhibition at Visual Studies Workshop January 30-April 3, 1998. Catalog texts by Sherry Miller Hocking. Administration: Bob Doyle. Artists: Jeffrey Lerer, Kristin Lucas, Peer Bode, Mary Lucier, John Orentlicher, Branda Miller, Mike Camoin, Dave Ryan, Steina, Barbara Buckner, Bill Viola, Philip Mallory Jones, Woody Vasulka. Support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Chase Manhattan Bank