Video History: Making Connections, a conference concerning the links between early media history and contemporary practice, was held October 16-18, 1998 at Syracuse University in conjunction with the Common Ground Conference, sponsored by the New York State Alliance for Arts Education. Bringing together over 250 media makers active in the 70s and those artists working today in new media and interactive technologies, the conference celebrated our history and established new partnerships with cultural and educational institutions across the country. The project is made possible with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts Technology Planning Grant Program, with public funds from the Statewide Challenge Grant Program and the New York State Council on the Arts, and from the Everson Museum of Art and the Media Action Grant Program of Media Alliance, with corporate support from Dave Jones Design and VidiPax as well as individual contributors.

The Female Closet by Barbara Hammer was sponsored by Experimental Television Center and supported by New York State Council on the Arts, 1997-98.

Leonardo, Vol. 30, no. 5, article, "The Grimm Tale: The Evolution of a Multimedia Performance", by Mary Ann Petit concerning her work "The Grim Tale" produced in part at Experimental Television Center

Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Elizabeth Barret, Hartmut Bitomsky, Debra Chasnoff, Adriene Jenik, Ruth Leitman, Jim Mendiola, Amir Naderi, Spencer Nakasako, Frances Negron? Muntaner, Suzan Pitt, Lourdes Portillo, Gustavo Vazquez, Stephen Winter, Bruce Yonemoto and Norman Yonemoto

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25 Years of the Experimental Television Center exhibition at Art in General. November 8, 1996 - January 25, 1997.Curated by Ann-Sargent Wooster. Chronology of Experimental Television Center. Works by Tatiana Loureiro, Doris Chase, Peter D'Agostino, Shigeko Kubota, Mara Alper, Peter Rose, Shalom Gorewitz, Ann-Sargent Wooster, Richard Kostelanetz, Barbara Hammer, Paula Levine, Irit Batsry, Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe, Matthew Schlanger, Dan Reeves, Connie Coleman and Alan Powell, Bruno Patero, Merrill Aldighieri and Joe Tripician, Peer Bode, Sara Hornbacher, Charles Woodman, Lisa DiLillo, Robert Fleming, Valalyne Green, Darrin Martin,

1996 Annual Mill Valley Film Festival October 3-13, 1996 organized by Film Institute of Northern California. Included interactive media by Daniel Reeves

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1996 were made to: Shawn Atkins "Frame by Frame Fierce" - An experimental 35mm film project, using animation techniques to attack the problem of rising HIV infection among teens Lisa Barnstone "The Inventor" - A 16mm narrative film project exploring concepts of ecological disaster Zoe Beloff "Beyond" - An interactive work for CD ROM which grew out of an episodic movie serial designed for the World Wide Web; a playful philosophical inquiry into the paradoxes of technology and imagination Alan Berliner "Found Sound" - A mixed media installation investigating contemporary mass media. Critical Mass activates the newspaper page as cubist space; Audiofile and Aviary are interactive sculptures wherein participants can compose sound collages; The Red Thread explores the transformation of electrical energy into light and sound Diane Bertolo "Probing into Science" - An interactive CD ROM investigating the language of science and the language of interactivity. It is a computer artifact, a science fetish, a semiotic drift, an algorithmic poem Bill and...

In March the Library of Congress holds hearings in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC for the Study of the Preservation of Television and Video, conducting a national needs assessment and resulting in a set of recommendations in areas such as cataloging, cleaning and remastering, education and storage.