"New Work in Abstract Video Imagery", at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. 12/1-1/2/77. Curated by Richard Simmons of the Everson Museum; available for travel. Photo by Carol Goss. Included work by Barbara Buckner, Carl Geiger; Carol Goss; Gary Hill; Ralph Hocking; Don McArthur; Joseph Scala; Patsy Scala; Steina Vasulka; Woody Vasulka; Walter Wright.
Events by Year
1977
3rd Annual Ithaca Video Project Festival exhibition included work by Skip Blumberg; Tobe Carey; Gary Hill; John Orentlicher; the Vasulkas; Bill Viola. Exhibited at the Herbert Johnson Museum, Ithaca; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira; Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library. April - June 1977
1977
5th International Video Exchange Directory published by Satellite Video Exchange Society. Daryl Lacey and Shawn Preus. Listings of 500 groups and individuals using small-format video. Includes information about standards for international tape exchanges, and a bibliography of publications. The publication was not sold.
1977
Apple II introduced with game paddles and graphics/text interface to color display $1300 is first personal computer with color graphics
1977
Art V: A One-Day Symposium on Video in Buffalo at Albright Knox Art Gallery. Symposium to provide viewing of works; panel with Lyn Blumenthal; Kate Horsfield; Simone Forti; Hermine Freed; Gerald O'Grady; William Wegman. Event co-sponsored by the Albright-Knox and Hallwalls. Tape catalogs from Portable Channel and one assembled by the Museum including many upstate regional makers.
1977
"Sylvanscapes" video installation by Laurie McDonald, member of Electron Movers, assisted by Michael Carr at Artpark, Lewiston, NY. From the catalog: "Phosphorescent chemicals were poured into three 100" lengths of clear flexible plastic tubing. The tubing was woven through the trees, rocks, and bushes of the Ames Theater trail, its light illuminating much of the surrounding areas and creating a delicate drawing through the woods. The next night the plastic tubing was placed in the Niagara River at a point of changing currents and numerous eddies and whirlpools. When the current went downstream, the phosphorescent lines would be pulled 10" below the surface of the water, diffusing the light. When the current flowed upstream, sections of the tubing surfaced and snaked around, sometimes combining clearly diffused light with designs from diffused light."
1977
"LED Installation" video installation by Edward Tannenbaum, member of Electron Movers, at Artpark, Lewiston, NY. From the catalog: "300 light emitting diodes were constructed, cast in resin and attached to small batteries. The LED's were placed along cracks and crevices of the lower gorge trail, becoming visible at night before one's eyes became adjusted to the darkness."
1977
"Video Trail" site-specific installation, Robert Jungels and Alan Powell and Laurie McDonald, members of Electron Movers, at Artpark, Lewiston, NY. Description from the catalog: "Six 23" monitors were buried in the woods along the Ames Theater trail so that only the screens were exposed, displaying images from the environment: close-ups of a tunnel spider and web, ripening berries, the sky seen through silhouttes of leaves, people walking, viewed from above."
1977
The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers organized a National Task Force on Public Broadcasting and on September 7-9, 1977 presented testimony to The Subcommittee on Communications, House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Comnmittee. AIVF was a rallying point for issues of independent makers on public television.
1977
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Astoria Motion Picture Foundation to study development of programs for independent video and filmmakers and the general public. Astoria Motion Picture Foundation uses former motion picture studio in Queens.
1977
Barbara London becomes assistant curator in the Department of Film, Museum of Modern Art. Responsibilities include the permanent collection which holds over 400 titles; the as-yet unopened video study center; the newly launched circulating video library; Video Viewpoints, the on-going lecture series with in-person appearances by video artists.
1977
Founded in 1977, the Center for Photography at Woodstock provides services which include: darkroom, library, slide/video archives, permanent print collections, slide registry, classes, lectures, film/video screenings, workshops, gallery talks, internships, portfolio reviews.
1977
Comodore Business Machines introduces Pet 2001 computer includes 4 KB ram and tape drive for $600
1977
Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1976-77. Vito Acconci, Juan Downey, Gerrit-Jan Frank, Christa Maiwald, Bill Marpet, Rita Myers, Tomiyo Sasaki, Ana Soares, Bill Viola. Panel: Jamie Caro, Ron Clark, Julia Heyward, Stefan Moore, Sherry Miller, Steina Vasulka.
1977
Design in Electronic Arts conference at Media/Study Buffalo. 3/10-13/77. Presentations by Charles Csuri; Tom DeFanti; Dan Sandin; Phil Morton; Ken Knowlton; Laurie Spiegel; Sonia Sheridan; John Whitney; Stan Vanderbeek; Tom DeWitt; Walter Wright; Don McArthur; Bill Etra; Woody Vasulka. Performances by Gordon Mumma; Alvin Lucier; David Behrman; Robert Ashley. Curated by John Minkowsky.
1977
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film, Literature and Media programs are grouped into a new Administrative Division of Communications Arts
1977
Electronic Arts at Media/Study Buffalo. Presentations by Ralph Hocking, Don McArthur, Peer Bode, Meryl Blackman and Walter Wright of the Experimental Television Center at Media Study/Buffalo; curated by John Minkowsky. October 1977.