Events by Year

"Video and Television Review" begins
1976

On February 7, 1976 the Television Laboratory at WNET/Channel 13 of NYC began "Video and Television Review", the weekly presentation of a series of experimental programs made by independent artists and producers or by the artists in residence at the WNET TV Lab and WGBH/Boston's Experimental Workshop as well as other experimental centers.

Most of the programs which were aired, including interviews with artists by host Russell Connor, were made available from Electronic Arts Intermix. The series was conceived by David Loxton.

Artists included TVTV (excerpts from Gerlad Ford's America, Lord of the Universe and Four More Years), Ian Hugo (Transcending), Ed Emschwiller (Crossings and Meetings and Scape-Mates), John Reilly and Stefan Moore (The Irish Tapes), Skip Sweeney (Ocean), Andy Mann (All Across Boston), Peter Campus (Three Transitions and Set of Coincidence), Downtown Community Television Center (a profile of DCTV), Nam June Paik (Global Groove), Arthur Ginsberg and Video Free America (The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd), Tom DeWitt (Cathode Ray Theater), Cara DeVito (Ama L'Uomo Tuo), and makers in the schools.

"Video: State of the Art"
1976

Johanna Gill authors "Video: State of the Art", concerning video activities in NYS and the US. Published by The Rockefeller Foundation

Apple I
1976

Apple I introduced by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs

Artists Television Network
1976

Artists Television Network, founded by Jaime Davidovich, for production and cablecasting of artists' work

Artists' TV Lab
1976

Woodstock Community Video's, Artists' TV Lab in Woodstock, New York, moves to Rhinebeck, New York

Cloud Music
1976

Cloud Music at Experimental Television Center. Live presentation by Bob Watts, Bob Diamond and David Behrman at ETC. 6/26-27/76

Cloud Music
1976

Bob Diamond with Cloud Music exhibition at ETC, 6/26-27/76. From Ars Electronica catalog, Video Pioneers, curated by Woody and Steina Vasulka; participation by ETC and Ralph Hocking.ETC supplied many early devices, and assisted with public interfaces; reprint of equipment manual written by Sherry Miller Hocking and Rich Brewster.

Cloud Music
1976

Cloud Music at Experimental Television Center. Live presentation by Bob Watts, Bob Diamond and David Behrman at ETC. 6/26-27/76

Computer Animation System
1976

Computer Animation System using GRASS. Support from the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, Sloan Foundation, Graham Foundation, National Endowmen for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council and Victor General Corporation. Dan Sandin and Tom DeFanti.

Couple 513
1976

Couple 513 was a live video and dance performance at the Everson Museum of Art , May 21-23, 1976. Performers were Lois Welk and Arnie Zane of the American Dance Asylum. Video was performed by Meryl Blackman and Peer Bode, and the Experimental Television Center.

Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships
1976

Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1975-76. Elaine Baley, Skip Blumberg, Peer Bode, Bart Friedman, Julia Heyward, Philip Mallory Jones, Beryl Korot, Shigeko Kubota, Michael Marton, Ira Schneider. Panel: Louise Etra, Ralph Hocking, Richard Landry, Polly McLean, David Sasser, William Wegman.

Digitally recorded videotape
1976

First digitally recorded videotape pictures demonstrated in Britain.

Electron Movers
1976

Electron Movers studio was located at 128 N Main Street in Providence, RI. The studio was housed in a 5,000 ft. loft space in the Fain Carpet Building

Electronic Image Making
1976

Electronic Image Making - Ed Melnik. Catalog and biography with photo of Experimental Television Center studio where Melnik worked. Also associated with Media Study/Buffalo. 1

Email
1976

Queen Elisabeth II sends email

Eric Siegel
1976

Processing Chrominance Synthesiser Model 100 designed by Eric Siegel and distributed by Siegel Electronics, Brooklyn 1976

Everson Video 1975
1976

Everson Video 1975. Judson Rosebush, catalog editor. Included Ant Farm; Community Video/CAST; David Cort; Dance Media; Dimitri Devyatkin; Electron Movers; Dieter Froese; Beryl Korot; Shigeko Kubota; Andy Mann; Paul Ott and Fred Kessler; Peter Van Riper; Bill Viola.

Extended Images
1976

Extended Images, an exhibition of the works of Bart Robbett, curated by John Minkowsky for Media Study/Buffalo. December 2-15, 1976. Catalog essay by John Minkowsky. The exhibition traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, October 28-November 6, 1977

Independent Creative Artists Project
1976

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Independent Creative Artists Project (ICAP), under direction of Kitty Morgan, to help independents market work on cable

Information, Works and Activities
1976

Information, Works and Activities exhibition by the Experimental Television Center at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse November 6-28, 1976. Installations, systems demonstrations and lecture presentations, performances, continuous tape screening. Peer Bode (Untitled Activity installation; Synthesis workshop and lecture), Ralph Hocking (Frames and Work for Round Screen TV installations), David Jones (installation of Jones Video Synthesizer), Don McArthur (Computer Controlled Systems Graphics installation and lectures), Evangelos Dousmanis and Melanie Salzberg (multimedia portrait of Alfred Skerritt), Meryl Blackman (Three Pillars and Meeting in Space installations), Sherry Miller (Circle Cycle installation), Walter Wright (Three Channel Piece installation and Synthesis workshops and lectures, and Illuminations performance), Neil Zusman (Act Requiring Maintenance installation), Jane Wright (Sunsets installation). Videotapes produced at the Center; program curated by Peer Bode and Sherry Miller. Artists included by Meryl Blackman, Peer Bode, Walter Wright, Jean Pierre Boyer, Peter Diana, Evangelos Dounsanis, Barbara Cieslicki, Gary Hill, Don McArthur, Neil Murphy, Susan...

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