Paper Tiger TV is a non-profit volunteer collective that has been pioneering media criticism through video since 1981. The diverse series of over 260 programs addresses issues of democratic communications, media representation and the economics of the information industry. The tapes are broadcast in NYC and across the US. They are distributed by Paper Tiger to universities, libraries and media centers worldwide.
Events by Year
1981
Personal Statements in Video exhibition. New American Makers. Opera Plaza Cinema. Excerpts from program notes: "These videos are personal statements by their authors that reflect their take on the world, their relationships, and their place in our society. BARBARA ROSENTHAL "Fingernails and Other Shorts" offers short videos from dry wit to zany goof, using toys, puppets and primitive music. MARSHALL WEBER "A Roman Empire" presents a travelogue analogy of empire... then and now. LYNN HERSHMAN "First Person Plural," BARBARA HAMMER and PAULA LEVINE "Two Bad Daughters" uses child-like play to sabotage and subvert patriarchal Institutions, and MARILYN WULFF "Little Stories" a naive and funny account of people she knew while growing up."
1981
Seventh Ithaca Video Festival. 290 entries; 19 tapes selected. No entry fee. Payment for tapes selected. Panelists: Barbara London (MOMA), Arthur Tsuchiya (NYSCA), Carvin Eison (WXXI Artists Workshop). Artists: Shalom Gorewitz, Steina Vasulka, Ed Emshwiller, Woody Vasulka, Dan Reeves and Jon Hilton, Eva Maier, Blondell Cummings and SHirley Clarke, Christopher Couglan, Denise Milan and Nana Vasconcelos, Tom Adair and Kenneth Robins, John Sturgeon, Kit Fitzgerald and Jon Sanborn, Gary Hill, Dana Atchley and Eric Metcalfe, Ros Barron, Neecy Twinem, Peter D'Agostino, Taka Iimura. Exhibition sites: Herbert Johnson Museum, Intermedia Art Center, Port Washington Public LIbrary, Albany Public LIbrary and other national locations. Supported by the NYSCA and NEA.
1981
Shigeko Kubota: Video Sculpture exhibition organized by Berliner Kunstlerprogramm des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes. 1981. Catalog editor: Felix Zdenek. Exhibition at daadgalerie, Berlin; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Kunsthaus Zurich
1981
SMPTE tests digital video and makes recommendations which become the basis for the D-1 recorder
1981
The Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium (TAEMAC) was started in 1980-81 as the Black Maria Film Festival with the endorsement of the Edison National Historic Site .
1981
Themes in Electronic Image Processing at The Kitchen. Curator: Shalom Gorewitz. Decenber 1981. Exhibition of image processing tools by Experimental Television Center and David Jones. Artists - Peer Bode; Ralph Hocking; Connie Coleman and Alan Powell; Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorenson and Dean Winkler; Reynold Weidenaar; Barbara SYkes; Barbara Buckner; Jo Ann Gillerman; Gillerman and Jim Whiteaker; Henry Baker and Jane Steuerwald; Pier Marton; Shalom Gorewitz; Doris Chase; Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn; Gary Hill; Michael Scroggins; Neil Zusman; Maureen Nappi; Janice Tanaka; Marc Casey; Sara Hornbacher
1981
Themes in Electronic Imaging exhibition at The Kitchen, curated by Shalom Gorewitz. Included work by Peer Bode; Ralph Hockng' Tom DeWitt; Barbara Buckner; Henry Baker; Gary Hill.
1981
Themes in Electronic Imaging exhibition at The Kitchen, curated by Shalom Gorewitz. Included work by Peer Bode; Ralph Hockng' Tom DeWitt; Barbara Buckner; Henry Baker; Gary Hill.
1981
Video Art Review at Anthology Film Archives. Series of 18 programs presented by Anthology Film Archives in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix. Program notes. Nam June Paik, DCTV, Ed Emschwiller, WGBH, Peter Campus, NCET, John Reilly and Stefan Moore, TVTV, Ant Farm, Woody Vasulkas, Steina Vasulka, Skip Blumberg, Skip Sweeney, Richard Foreman and others.
1981
Women's International Independent Film Festival at the Bleecker Street Cinema, New York City, organized by Women Make Movies
1981
New York State Council on the Arts discontinues funding to WXXI-TV Television Workshop, Rochester. Mary Hays, NYSCA Executive Director. John Giancola, Media Program Director.
1981
Xerox introduces Star 8010 with word processing (WYSIWYG) and software allowing combining of text and graphics in single document. $16,000
1981
ZBS announced the 1981 AIR season with a brochure. The program provides access to an audio studio.
1980
An Alliance for the Media Arts in America. Founding conference for National Alliance of Media Arts Centers in Boulder, CO. May 29-31, 1980. Conference report published by the Rocky Mountain Film Center. Over 130 participants from the field. By -laws were approved for NAMAC's organizational structure, and 17 distinct projects were identified. The 1980-81 Board of Directors Chair was Robert Haller (Anthology Film Archives). The staff Director for the Boulder conference was Virgil Grillo (Rocky Mountain Film Center). NYS member organizations included AIVF, American Federation of Arts, Anthology Film Archives, Astoria Studios, Chamba Educational Film Services, Collective for Living Cinema, Film Forum, The Film Fund, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Global Village, Independent Feature Project, The Kitchen, Media Study/Buffalo, Millennium, Museum of Modern Art, New Community Cinema, New Medium, Non-Theatrical Film Distributors, Portable Channel, Synapse, Third World Newsreel, TV Lab at WNET, Whitney Museum, Women's Interart Center, Women Make Movies, Young Filmmakers. NAMAC's objectives recognized the needs for the field to act in concert on a national level to achieve an advocacy for...
1980
Anthology Film Archives (AFA), New York City receives New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program funds to preserve 16mm independent films
1980
Art at the Olympics is funded to commission independent video projects for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid. Artists funded include Skip Blumberg, Kit Fitzgerald/John Sanborn and Nam June Paik.