Jerome Foundation begins awarding fellowships for film- and videomakers in New York State
Events by Year
1978
John Reilly, an independent documentary producer and the Director of Global Village, another regional media center in New York City, undertook a long-term project, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, the Rockefeller Foundation and the SONY Corporation of America, to visit over twenty American cities to gather independent makers at local television stations to discuss the possibilities of collaboration in program production and to introduce new information about developing video technologies. He extended this work to hold conferences on The Independent Producer and Public Television in major American cities, including New York at The Museum of Modem Art in March, 1978
1978
John Sturgeon: Two Video Installations, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1/21/78-2/19/78. Catalog introduction by David Ross.
1978
Land Truth Circus, San Francisco, experimental video collective renamed Truthco in 1972 becomes T.R. Uthco in 1975 . Disbanded.
1978
TeleGuide and Proposal for QUBE by Peter D'Agostino. QUBE was a two-way cable TV system in Columbus, OH. Proposal for QUBE was installed at Ohio State University (1978)
1978
Alpha, Trans, Chung. Peter D'Agostino: A Photographic Model: Semiotics, Film, and Interpretation. Texts by Rae Blakeney (Syntactics and the On-Going Work of Peter D'Agostino) , Alain Robbe-Grillet (Order and Disorder in Film and Fiction) and William Luhr (Semiotics and Film: From an Interview with Umberto Eco). Review by Hal Foster.
1978
In June 1978 Pittsburgh Filmmakers convened a meeting to address issues raised by the Mohonk Conference and the publication of "The Independent Film Community". It was generally felt that the general public was unaware of the activities of the independent media community, and that national organizations, such as the AFI, did not address their concerns or needs. Conference attendance by 23 of the largest media centers; the conference was not representative of the field as a whole. It was perceived that national and unified actions were needed in order to represent the needs of media artists, emerging media institutions and the rapidly evolving film and video arts. Because the conference attendance did not represent the diversity of the field and was rather limited, national goals or a clear mission were not defined. A Steering Committee was formed which called the 1979 Minnewaska Conference. This committee represented the Rocky Mountain Film Center, the Northwest Film Study Center, the Bay Area Video Coalition, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Boston Film/Video Foundation and AIVF.
1978
Richard Landry concert at Experimental Television Center. 5/4/78. An in-person concert performance by Landry
1978
Richard Landry concert at Experimental Television Center. 5/4/78. An in-person concert performance by Landry
1978
The Moving Image Statewide, programmed by John Minkowsky of Media Study/Buffalo. A Traveling exhibition distributed by Media Study/Buffalo. Sponsored by the University WIde Committee on the Arts. Included 13 tapes by Peter Campus, William Wegman, Bill Viola, Cara DeVito, Andy Mann, Joan Jonas, Woody and Steina Vasulka,.
1978
Montreal Tapes: Video as a Community or Political Tool at The Vancouver Art Gallery. Curator Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker. Interviews; Statements by Challenge for Change; Parallel Video Institute; Intercom Staellite Project; La Femme et Le Film; Videotron; Groupe d'Intervention Video; statements on videotapes exhibited in Quebec '75, organized by Normand Theriault.
1978
Fourth Annual Video and Television Documentary Festival. May 28 - June 10, 1978. Organized by Global Village, Festival Director, and Barbara Mayfield, Julie Gustafson and Karen Mooney, Program Coordinators. Stevenson Palfim Andrew Kolker and Eddie Kurtz/NOVAC; Nancy Porter; Alan Esner and Jamie Newman; James Blue, Ed Hugetz and Brian Huberman; USER Video; Pamela Hill; Seabrook Video Collective; Laurie McDonald; Bob and Ingrid Wiegand; Man June Paik and Dimitri Devyatkin; Arthur Ginsberg; Maxi Cohen; William Berg; Leandra Strobing; Judy Graf Klein; Steven Schindler with Dan Klugherz, CHristine O'Sage, Jay Padroff and Douglas Scott; Manuel Carvalho; Maurice Bell; Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno; Allen Gordon; Susan Landry and Deborah Perlberg; Bill Hoare and Media Team; Carlos DeJesus; Bob and Nancy Thurber; Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation and the TV Lab at WNET; Perry Teasdale; Rachael Strickland and Elaine Negroponte; Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn; Don Widener; Alex Bennett and Media Ranch; Nicholas Stein; Gunilla Mallory Jones with Philip Mallory Jones. Exhibiton catalog.
1978
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City, for "Video Viewpoints" series, for video makers to screen and discuss their work
1978
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds WNET/13, New York City, for premiere season of "Independent Focus" series
1978
Word Star word processing program written by Rob Barnaby available for Intel 8080 Z 80 based CP/M-80 systems
1978
Writer's Guild, New York City, establishes a fellowship/mentor program with New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding