Synapse Video Center (formerly University Community Union Video), Syracuse, New York, closes
Events by Year
1980
The Electronic Gallery at University Art Gallery, Binghamton. Curator: Maureen Turim. Tape exhibition of works from the Experimental TV Center by Ralph Hocking and Sherry Miller; Hank Rudolph; Henry Linhart; Shalom Gorewitz; Peer Bode; Meryl Blackman; Reynold Weidenaar; Barbara Buckner; Neil Zusman and Julie Harrison; Gary Hill. Essay by Maureen Turim and Donna Cesan
1980
The Film Fund, New York City, receives New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds to administer grants program for independent film and video production, under direction of Jennifer Lawson. Grant money from individual donors and small foundations.
1980
Developing a Critical Language for Video Image Processing, panel at The Kitchen Center; Barbara Buckner, participant.
1980
The National Alliance of Media Arts Centers (NAMAC) is established; later renamed National Alliance of Media Art and Culture
1980
The Rockefeller Foundation establishes a new category to support independent videomakers.
1980
Themes in Electronic Image Processing at The Kitchen. Curator: Shalom Gorewitz. Month long exhibition. Included panel on video criticism. Second year of exhibition. 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
1980
Video About Video: Four French Artists exhibition at University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Teletheque-Alliance Francaise, New York. Works by Paul-Armand Gette; Philippe Guerrier; Thierry Kuntzel; Philippe Oudard.
1980
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.
1980
Museum of Modern Art "Video: New York, Seattle and LA". Travelling exhibition at Seibe Museum, Tokyo; Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Kobe; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka City; Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art Center, Osaka City; Hekkaido Contemporary Art Center, Tokyo; Center for Media Art, The American Center, Paris.
1980
Wendy Clarke's "Love Tapes," an interactive video installation, is exhibitied at the World Trade Center, New York City
1979
American Independents Festival is held as a sidebar to the New York Film Festival; with New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) support, later becomes Independent Feature Project
1979
Asian Cine-Vision, New York City, receives first time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding for a cable series and video workshops
1979
The first Asian-American Film Festival receives support under the sponsorship of the Asian-American Film Institute
1979
Media Study/Buffalo, in collaboration with WNED-TV, Channel 17 and the Center for Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, had held its first Conference on Contemporary Directions in the Public Affairs Documentary in February, 1979 and has announced the second annual event for May 12-15, 1980.
1979
Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1978-79. Dena Crane, Louie Grenier, Gary Hill, Ralph Hocking, Steven Kolpan, Mitchell Kriegman, Mary Lucier, Michael Marton, William Wegman, Elizabeth Wiener. Panel: Peer Bode, Kathie Bodily, Frank Gillette, Fran McGee, Edin Velez. Traveled to Experimental Television Center (Binghamton), Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester), Media Study/Buffalo, Intermedia Arts Center (Bayville), PS 1 (New York ), Anthology Film Archives (New York), Port Washington Public Library, Cable 10 (New York), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse), Holly Solomon Gallery (New York)
1979
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Entermedia's "American Mavericks Film Festival," New York City, and statewide tour
1979
Everson Video Revue curated by Richard Simmons for Everson Museum of Art, 1979-1980. Exhibition at Everson Museum of Art (9/1-9/30/1979 and 2/1-3/2/1980); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (10/5-11/3/1979); University Art Gallery, Berkeley (11/10-1/5/1979); Museum of Contemporary Art, LaJolla (February - March 1981). 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.
1979
Experimental Television Center (ETC), Binghamton, New York, moves to Owego, New York. Peer Bode, Program Coordinator of Residency Program.
1979
Independent Film Project, supported by The Ford Foundation held its first Film Market at the New York Film Festival in September, 1979