Circuit: A Video Invitational exhibition at School of The Museum of Fine Arts Gallery, Boston. 1/7-2/3/74.
Events by Year
Circuit: A Video Invitational exhibition at School of The Museum of Fine Arts Gallery, Boston. 1/7-2/3/74.
Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1973-74. William Creston, Ron Dubren, Tom DeWitt, Bruce Fergerson, Janet Goldberg, Ernest Gusella, Susan Milano, Nina Sobel, Bill Stephens, Wolfgang Stoerchle. Panel: Elaine Baly, Shridar Bapat, Beryl Korot, Nam June Paik, Alphonse Schilling, Keiko Tsuno.
Earthscore Foundation. NYC and New Paltz. Paul Ryan, Bob Schuler, Steven Kolpan. Based on triadic relationship concents. For a full description, see Cybernetics of the Sacred by Paul Ryan.
Educational Communication Centers and the Television Arts, conference at SUNY Albany. November 21-22, 1974. Coordinator, Gerald O'Grandy of Center for Media Study at SUNY Buffalo. The purpose was to present the latest developments in the video arts and related technology, to suggest ways in which the communication centers can serve developing media artists in their own campuses, and to indicate ways the centers can stimulate media activities in the arts and humanities. Presenters included O'Grady, Steina Vasulka (Center for Media Study, U of Buffalo, Tom DeWitt, Paul Kaufman (NCET at KQED), Fred Barzyk (Television Workshop at WGBH), David Loxton (TV Lab at WNET), Ed Emshwiller, Joel Chadabe (SUNY Albany), Ralph Hocking (Binghamton U and Experimental Television Center), Walter Wright (Experimental Television Center demonstration of Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer), John Roy (U of Massachusetts), Woody Vasulka, Russell Connor 9Cable Arts Foundation), Lance Wisniewski (Synapse), Carl Geiger (Innervision), Peter Bradley (NYS Council on the Arts), Lydia Silman (NYS Council on the Arts), DA Pennybaker, Gerd Stern (Intermedia Systems Corp).
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds independent video distribution at Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City
"Circuit: A Video Invitational," Everson Museum, Syracuse; curated by David Ross; traveling exhibition of videotapes by over sixty-five artists,. Travels to Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Kˆlnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, West Germany; and Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
Exprmntl 5: Fifth International Experimental Film Competition. Catalog and program. Video environments by Walter Wright (Experimental Television Center); Woody and Steina Vasulka ( University of Buffalo); David Cort; Tom DeWitt, Tony Conrad. Catalog essay by Seth Feldman; catalog prepared by Media Study/Buffalo.
First Ithaca Video Festival. Forty entries; 7 selected for exhibition. The Festival was one of the first regular travelling exhibitions of video work in the US.
Jones Four Channel Colorizer, designed by David Jones, is made available through the Artist in Residence Program at the Experimental Television Center.
L'Image Electronique at Studio du Musee d'art contemporain, Montreal. Conference publication. Text by Jean Pierre Boyer. Biographies of Walter Wright; Woody and Steina Vasulka. In French
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) increases support directed to film and video production by $891,000, overall budget increases $19,356,900
The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, a membership organization to further the interests of these producers was founded in 1974 with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts
The Videofreex produce The Spaghetti City Video Manual, published by Praeger. The Spaghetti City Video Manual is a practical handbook on video production.
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds six public television stations to purchase time-base correctors. Time-base correctors enable public television stations to prepare nonbroadcast quality tapes for broadcast.
April 26-29, 1974 at State University of New York College at Fredonia. "University-Wide Celebration of the Arts". Participation by Film and Video Departments of the SUNY system. Included demonstration of the Paik Abe Video Synthesizer by Ralph Hocking of the Experimental Television Center and Binghamton University.
Videa 'n' Videology: Nam June Paik (1959-1973) at Everson Museum of Art and Galeria Bonino, NYC, 1974. Catalog forward by James Harithas; reprints of Paik letters, notes, essays; photos. Catalog editor: Judson Rosebush
Video and the Art Museum, April 4-6, 1974. A three-day workshop and seminar at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. Supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. Included art presentations by William Wegman, Phil Niblock (film retrospectives), Frank Gilette, Walter Wright (Paik/Abe Synthesizer installation and demonstration, Experimental Television Center), Juan Downey (Video Trans America) and on-going tape screenings of Circuit: A Video Invitational and works by Andy Mann (Video Matrix), Ira Schneider (Manhattan is an Island), Nam June Paik (TV Garden and Video Buddha), Peter Campus (Closed Circuit Video). Other presentations included Video and the Art Museum, The Museum as Producer of Educational Programming, Cable TV and the Prospect for Museum Interaction, The Range of Creative Expression in Video, Funding for Video in the Museum, Aesthetics of Video: A Critical Overview amd seminars in portapack training, and a production seminar at Synapse.