Frank Gillette: Video: Process and Meta-Process at Everson Museum, Syracuse. Organized by Jim Harithas; coordinated by Sandra Trop Blumberg and David Ross. Catalog editor: Judson Rosebush
Events by Year
1973
Gay Video Workshop held at Experimental Television Center 11/30-12/2/73. Organized by David Sasser, Queer Blue Light Gay Video Revolution. A public service project of the Creative Artists Public Service Program. This was "an intensive 3 day 1/2" videotape workshop for gay men and women from organizations all over the State. The focus of the workshop will be on minority uses of the public access channels of CATV systems in New York State." - David Sasser, letter to Ralph Hocking 9/23/73.
1973
Gay Video Workshop held at Experimental Television Center 11/30-12/2/72. Organized by David Sasser, Queer Blue Light Gay Video Revolution. A public service project of the Creative Artists Public Service Program. This was "an intensive 3 day 1/2" videotape workshop for gay men and women from organizations all over the State. The focus of the workshop will be on minority uses of the public access channels of CATV systems in New York State." - David Sasser, letter to Ralph Hocking 9/23/73.
1973
Global Village, New York City, funded by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for an annual documentrary video festival
1973
Inconsecration of New Space, at the University of Illinois, January 23, 1973. Performers included Dan Sandin, Jim Wiseman and Philip Lee Morton. . The performance incorporated the Sandin Image Processor built by Dan Sandin, the Paik Abe Video Synthesizer built by Jim Wiseman at California Institute of Arts, as well as cameras, film and videotape.
1973
James Blue, faculty of the Center for Media Study at the University of Buffalo, began a set of interviews with Frederick Wiseman, George Stoney, Donn Alan Pennebaker and Willard Van Dyke
1973
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation awards first video fellowship
1973
Assistance from the Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts for costs associated with the Media Center at Visual Studies Workshop; and for visiting media artists.
1973
Mohonk Conference, officially titled the Conference on Regional Development of Film Centers and Services, organized by the Museum of Modern Art and the Pacific Film Archives. A national conference held February 1973 at Mohonk, NY, attended by about 30 directors of regional media programs. About 33% of participants represented organizations which were not in existence at the time of the writing of the Stanford Report (1967). Most of the participants represented foundations, universities museums and governmental entities; the alternative spaces were not represented. Conference support from Rockefeller Foundation, the John and Mary Markle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The report "The Independent Film Community" was published in 1977.
1973
Gerald O'Grady, Director of Center for Media Study at University of Buffalo, began the Oral History of the Independent American Cinema. Three filmmakers - Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka and Hollis Frampton - were invited to interview five fellow filmmakers.
1973
Perception, New York City, founded by Eric Siegel and Steina and Woody Vasulka; gourp of artists interested in alternative uses of video, disbands
1973
Spaghetti City Video Manual by the Videofreex, published by Praeger, New York. Alternative equipment manual
1973
The Videola, designed by Don Hallock, was displayed at the San Francisco Museum of Art in September 1973. The exhibition included videotape exhibition of works by Don Hallock, William Gwin (Irving Bridge, with original music by Warner Jepson) and others, and live performance with Stephen Beck on the Direct Video Synthesizer and sound by Don Hallock on the Buchla Electric Music Box.
1973
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Rochester and Syracuse public television stations to purchase time-base correctors. Time-base correctors enable public television stations to prepare nonbroadcast quality tapes for broadcast.
1973
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) publishes reference guide, Video Resources in New York State
1973
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, establishes media center; begins production of Afterimage with coverage of video; director, Nathan Lyons; media center coordinators include Wayne Luke, Laddy Kite, Mona Jimenez, Arthur Tsuchiya, Nancy Norwood, Robert Doyle. Production facility with workshops and exhibitions
1973
Visual Studies Workshop publishes Equipment access funded by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester. For film.Cooperstown TV is a Museum, a document of a video workshop for historians and museum personnel conducted by the Video Freex Media-bus under the auspices of the New York State Historical Association.