Electronic Arts at Media/Study Buffalo. Presentations by Ralph Hocking, Don McArthur, Peer Bode, Meryl Blackman and Walter Wright of the ETC at Media Study/Buffalo; curated by John Minkowsky. October 1977.
Events by Year
1977
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Program expands and formalizes film production funding
1977
Sound Construction with Gary Hill. A sound workshop conducted by Gary Hill at Experimental Television Center 3/17-18/77
1977
Hallwalls, Buffalo, receives first time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds for video exhibition and documentation of arts events
1977
The Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts created the Independent Documentary Fund at WNET-Channel 13 in New York in 1977
1977
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, D.C., Public Media Program becomes Media Arts Program
1977
Media Center for Children, New York City, under direction of Maureen Gaffney, receives New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds to research and train teachers, librarians and museum staff in ways to use independent films with young audiences
1977
Media Equipment Resource Center (MERC), New York City, reorganizes as access service with TV studio, equipment loan and post-production divisions
1977
"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 Drew Browning, Barbara Buckner, Tom DeFanti, Gary Demos, Bill Etra, Rod Fountain, Carl Geiger, Carol Goss, Ernest Gusella, Ron Hays, Gary Hill, Ralph Hocking, J.D. Jarvis, Paul Jenewein, Paula Kim, Fred Kessler, Ken Knowlton, Mary Lucier, Don McArthur, Phil Morton, Ronald Nameth, Paul Ott, Nam June Paik, Judson Rosebush, Michael Rothbard, Dan Sandin, Joseph Scala, Patsy Scala, Lillian Schwartz, Skip Sweeney, Barbara Sykes, Aldo Tambellini, Bob Tavis, Stan Van Der Beek, Peter Van Riper, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka, Jane Wright, Walter Wright . Traveled to Flint Institute (MI), Tweed Museum (MN)
1977
Southland Video Anthology 1976-77 exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. Curator: David Ross. Included work by John Sturgeon.
1977
T.P. Video Space Troupe, New York City, founded by Shirley Clarke disbands
1977
The Independent Film Community published. This report was generated by the Mohonk Conference. The report suggested that there were common areas of concern shared by all media centers; these included issues of visibility, funding, communications and publication of efforts and programs. National leadership wasidentified as a shared need; advocacy on a national level and public education about the activities of all media centers, including the "alternative" centers, was important to advancement of the field.
1977
Publication of The MERC Directory: A Listing of Independently Produced Film and Video Work Available for Distribution by Young Filmakers/Video Arts
1977
Top Value Television (TVTV), San Francisco, founded; Independent documentary production group disbands
1977
"TV Tightrope" video installation by Dennis Hlynsky, member of Electron Movers, at Artpark, Lewiston, NY. From the catalog: "Using the television console as a tightrope performed, a 25" Setchel-Carelson television is suspended over the upper gorge trail with the Niagara power plant as a backdrop."
1977
Woodstock Community Video's, Woodstock, New York, presents Woodstock Video Expovision, at the Arnolfini Arts Center October 7-9, 1977. Events included The TV Commercial: Is it Art? by Bruce Kurtz; Public Television and Video Art, by Betsy Connors; Video Art and the Art Critic by John Orentlicher, Gary Hill, Ernest Gusella; West Coast Video; The Police Tapes by Susan and Alan Raymond.
1977
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) supports Young Filmakers, New York City, to publish the MERC Directory of Independently Produced Media Work by New York State artists