Sony introduces Betamax, a consumer format for home use; marketed primarily to record off-the-air programming
Events by Year
1975
Southland Video Anthology 1975 exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art. Curator: David Ross. History of video in Southern California. David Ross, Deputy Director Film/Television.
1975
Techno-Conference held at Lanesville TV, October 10-11, 1975. Participants: Carl Geiger (Innervision), Kevin Kenney (Media Equipment Resource Center), Chuck Heuer (Portable Channel), Chuck Kennedy (Lanesville TV), Don McArthur (Experimental Television Center), Dave Jones (Experimental Television Center), Parry Teasdale (Lanesville TV), Ken Jesser (Media Study/Buffalo), Bill Claghorn (Adwar Video Corporation), Paul Lamarre (Textronix). Agenda items included microprocessor systems, equipment insurance, super 8, new circuits, and discussion of future telephone conferences.
1975
Tele-Techno Phone Conferences, coordinated by Lanesville TV. A regularly scheduled series of telephone conferences to discuss technical issues. Objective was to share information concerning technical problems, repairs and modifications to 1/2" video recording technology, and computer/video interfaces, and to discuss ways that media centers could work together to solve equipment access and repari problems. Participants included Carl Geiger (Innervision), Kevin Kenney (Media Equipment Resource Center), Chuck Heuer (Portable Channel), Chuck Kennedy (Lanesville TV), Don McArthur (Experimental Television Center), Dave Jones (Experimental Television Center), Parry Teasdale (Lanesville TV), Ken Jesser (Intermedia Art Center). First conference call on May 15, 1975.
1975
Performance at The Kitchen by Walter Wright.. 1/21-24/75. With Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer and support from Experimental Television Center.
1975
The Kitchen "Hocking and The Vasulkas". Exhibition of media installations, videotapes and photographs by Ralph Hocking, WOody and Steina Vasulka.
1975
The Whitney Museum Biennial has a comprehensive selection of video. Afterimage May 1983
1975
USENET established,. Packet radio experiments. Computer science departments established at academic institutions 1975 - 1979
1975
Video and Dancing in Binghamton performance sponsored by Experimental Television Center and The American Dance Asylum, with Bill Jones, Lois Welk and Arnie Zane. 2/21-22/75. Video by Meryl Blackman, Peer Bode
1975
Video and Education in New York Sate Art Museums - A two day conference Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University Ithaca, New York In April 1975, Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, held a two day conference on video and education in New York State Art Museums. Attendees included representatives from the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; American Crafts Council, New York City; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; The Bronx Museum, Bronx; Cable Arts Foundation, New York City; The Depot, Yuma, Arizona; Elmira Public Schools, Elmira; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Gallery Association, Norwich; The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University Art Collection, New York City; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Harpur College, Binghamton; Hartwick College, Oneonta; Heckscher Museum, Fredonia; The Hudson River Museum at Yonkers, Inc., Yonkers; Ithaca Video Project, Ithaca; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; The Museum of...
1975
Video Resources in New York State published by the Media Bureau, administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts and funded by the New York State Council on the Arts. An early nformation resource for the field and the general public. Categorized resources in 6 regions in the State, by type of activity: community facility, broadcast television, cable, museums, libraries, college, schools and Boces.
1975
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, for "Projected Video" exhibition
1975
Video becomes regular part of Whitney Museum of American Art's programs, New York City, under the direction of John Hanhardt
1975
WNET/13, New York City, funded by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for a new independent video series, "Video/Television Review" (VTR)
1975
Woodstock Community Video's, Woodstock, New York, presents the first Woodstock Video Expovision, August 1975, over a five day period. It consisted of tape showings of 50 NYS video makers, a video synthesizer demonstration, an electronic media performance with dance, a presentation by Earthscore Foundation on ecological and behavioral philosophies of media, a video environment by artists of Media Bus, and a panel discussion of issues related to the medium with such participants as Gerd Stern of Intermedia Systems, Barbara London of the Museum of Modern Art, and John Godfrey of WNET's Experimental TV Lab.
1974
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) supports "Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television," held at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City. The Conference brings together curators, artists and critics to share ideas and models of production, distribution and exhibition of video art. Proceedings were published in The New Television: A Public/Private Art by the MIT Press (1977).
1974
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds independent film tours at American Federation of Arts, New York City
1974
Astral Projections: A Polyfusion of Media, catalog of exhibition produced by Howard Gutstadt and Mollie Hughes of Survival Arts Media and published by Visual Studies Workshop. Catalog undated. Fri& Sat. 9/20 & 21, 1974. Participants of event : Survival Arts Media (Howard Gutstadt, Mollie Hughes, Danny Bucciano, Pierre Jouchmans); ZBS Media (Bob Bielecki, Pat Anderson); Media Bus (Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, Bart Friedman); Portable Channel (Chuck Heuer, Sandy Rockowitz, Bonnie Klein, John Camelio); Visual Studies Workshop; (Laddy Kite, Howard Spector, Jeremy Ross, Andre Strong, Ron Kohn, Art Hynes); Synapse (Carl Geiger, Paul Dowerty, Bobby Burns, Lance Wisniewski). The live video and music performance was created live on 2 evenings at at the Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester. Audience of 1500. Survival Arts Media worked with Central Maine Power in a live collaborative performance utilizing video and audio synthesis and music by Central Maine Power. There were several concerts in New York City, as well as work with the Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer at the Experimental Television Center through the Artist in Residence Program; concerts were also presented at Synapse....