Artists' Use of Telecommunications Conference - Live International Video and Audio Link February 16, 1980 "The conference brings together internationally known artists working with telecommunications to discuss and explore ideas pertaining to satellites and slow-scan video. The conference will be presented in "telecommunication space" with participants located in San Franscisco, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Vienna and Tokyo. Participants include, among others, Bob Adrian, Bill Bartlett, Liza Bear, Douglas Davis, Sharon Grace, Carl Loeffler, David Ross, Aldo Tambellini, Norman White and Gene Youngblood. Organized by La Mamelle Inc. and San Franscisco Museum of Modern Art". The on-line part of the "Artists' Use of Telecommunications Conference" was organised by Bill Bartlett for "La Mamelle" (an artist-run space in San Francisco) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMMA). The "Conference" was also the first global use of Slow-Scan TV (video images transmitted over the telephone) by artists. Locations and Participants CAMBRIDGE (USA) Center for Advanced Visual Studies/M.I.T. Aldo Tambellini etc. HAWAII University Art Department John Southworth etc. JAPAN Tsukuba...
Events by Year
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film and Media Programs award first funds for Arts Programming for Television. This is a three-year funding initiative supporting collaborative works by video and filmmakers and other artists.
Athens Video Festival, a project of the Athens Center for Film and Video. Norman Pollack, (QUBE CHoice Award), Julie Harrison and Neil Zusman (The Colorado Video Award), Alan Barkley (Special Merit Award), Ed Geis(Special Merit Award), DN Rodowick (Merit Award), Thomas Musca Highlights), Stefan Moore and Claude Beller (3M Award), Sol Korine and Blaine Dunlap (Special Merit), Jim Mulligan and John DeGraaf (Merit Award), Mark Lowrey (Merit Award), DCVT (Merit Award), UWGB Center (3M Award), Erik Nelson and Joe Dea (Midwest Corporation Award), John Caldwell (Midwest Corporation Award), Tom Adair (Merit Award)
Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1979-80. Mark Brady, Barbara Buckner, Maxi Cohen, Tom DeWitt, Ernest Gusella, Sara Hornbacher, Les Levine, Tony Ramos, Ira Schneider, Vibeke Sorensen, Arthur Tsuchiya, Edin Velez. Panel: John Minkowsky, John Camelio, DOris Chase, Juan Downey, Gunilla Mallory Jones, Joan Logue, ANtonio Muntades. Video Festival was exhibited in 18 locations around New York State.
CSNET was initially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide networking for university, industry and government computer science research groups. CSNET used the Phonenet MMDF protocol for telephone-based electronic mail relaying and, in addition, pioneered the first use of TCP/IP over X.25 using commercial public data networks. The CSNET name server provided an early example of a white pages directory service and this software is still in use at numerous sites. At its peak, CSNET had approximately 200 participating sites and international connections to approximately fifteen countries.
Electronic Arts Intermix receives one of the first grants from the New York State Council on the Arts for preservation activities.
Everson Video Revue curated by Richard Simmons for Everson Museum of Art, 1979-1980. Exhibiiition at Everson Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; University Art Gallery, Berkeley; Museum of Contemporary Art, LaJolla. Works by Gregory Battcock and Nam June Paik, Skip Blumberg and John Margolies, Barbara Buckner, Nancy Cain, Merce Cunningham and Nam June Paik, Rom DeFanti, Juan Downey, Jean Dupuy and Davidson Gigliotti, Ed Emshwiller, Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn, Richard Foreman, Hermine Freed, Howard Fried, Bary Friedman, Joan Giummo and Elizabeth Sweetnam, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Gunilla Mallory Jones, Phillip Mallory Jones, John Keeler and Ruth Rothko, Marlene and Paul Kos, Mitchell Kriegman, Barbara Latham and John Manning and Edward Rankus, Les Levine, Eva Maier, Christa Maiwald, Linda Montano, James Morris, Rita Myers, John Orentlicher and Tom Sherman, Pocket Video, Susan Russell, Barbara Sykes, Ira Schneider, Video Repetorie, Bill Viola, Lawrence Weiner.
Mary Lea Bandy becomes Director of the Film Department at the Museum of Modern Art and Bill Sloan named librarian and head of the circulating film library.
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program establishes a separate category for film preservation
German Video and Performance exhibition. Curator: Ulrike Rosenbach. Artists: Ulrike Rosenbach; Klaus vom Bruch; Jochen Gerz; Marcel Odenbach. Catalog essay by Wulf Herzogenrath
Harvestworks, New York City, under direction of Gerald Lindahl, is funded to provide audio equipment services
Media Alliance, New York City, receives funding to organize a professional network of video artists and media arts organizations
Microsoft introduces XENIX OS a portable and commercial version of UNIX operating system
During the 1980s, the National Endowment for the Arts assists preservation efforts in several disciplines, including media arts, folk arts and dance
In the 1980s, under the leadership of Debby Silverfine, Director of the Electronic Media and Film Program at The New York State Council on the Arts, a support category for preservation activities is established
Seagate Technology introduces first 5.25" hard drive holding 5 MB costs $600
Sixth Ithaca Video Festival. 372 entries; 19 tapes selected. No entry fee. Payment for tapes selected. Panelists: Pat Faust (WXXI), Ann Volkes (Anthology Film Archives and Electronic Arts Intermix), Phil Jones (Ithaca Video Project), Gunilla Mallory Jones (Ithaca Video Project). Artists: Anita Thacher, Mimi Martin, Juan Downey, Barbara Sykes, Tom DeFanti, Collectivision, Steina, Alan Powell and Connie Coleman, Bill Viola. Exhibition sites: Contemporary Arts Center, MIT Video Resources and libraries and museums in 13 other cities, and widely in NYS. Supported by the NYSCA and NEA.