Portable Channel, Rochester, founded; directors include Bonnie Klein, Sanford Rockowitz, John Camelio, Robert Shea and Tim Kelly. Video resource center with workshops, visiting artist series, equipment access, producitons
Events by Year
1972
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Portable Channel, Rochester, for a video center
1972
Public Access Celebration marked the first anniversary of Public Channel programming on cable television in Manhattan. Individuals, video groups, City agencies and the New York State Council on the Arts, Sterling Manhattan Cable and Teleprompter Corporation cooperated to produce an informational event about public access for the general public. Survival Arts Media participated and helped produce a report, published in January 1973.
1972
Experimental Television Center. Shigeko Kubota exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. 9/30/72.
1972
Shigeko Kubota exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. Assistance from Experimental Television Center. 9/30/72.
1972
Special video issue, Print published by RC Publications; guest editor, Robert de Havilland. Contributors: Fred Barzyk, Rudi Bass, Rose DeNeue, Bernard Owett, Sheldon Satin, Michael Shamberg, Ralph Hocking
1972
Survival Arts Media, New York, founded; members included Gail Edwards, Howard Gudstadt, Molly Hughes, Ben Levine, Danny Bucciano and Richard Malone. Video collective emphasizing community education and health programs, programs on artists and artistic practices and multimedia shows
1972
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds The Electronic Kitchen, New York City, Steina and Woody Vasulka, founding directors, for video and multi-media events. Funds for film and video exhibition programs.
1972
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds The Everson Museum, Syracuse, for video exhibition program, David Ross, video curator. Funds for film and video exhibition programs, including an installation by Frank Gillette.
1972
The Federal Communications Commmision (FCC), Washington, D.C., requires that all cable franchises have at least one public access channel
1972
Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman perform live at The Kitchen, June 29, 1972. Technical assistance by Ralph Hocking, Experimental Television Center.
1972
The Television Laboratory at WNET/Thirteen, New York, founded with grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA); directors include David Loxton and Carol Brandenburg. First year initiates artists-in-residence program with Shirley Clarke, Douglas Davis, Ed Emshwiller and Nam June Paik
1972
Top Value Television (TVTV), San Francisco, founded; Independent documentary production group providing alternative coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions in Miami; the first use of half-inch videotape on broadcast television. Original produciton by Hudson Marquez, Allen Rucker, Michael Shamberg, Tom Weinberg, Megan Williams, and members of Ant Farm, Raindance, and Videofreex collectives; other members of TVTV include Wendy Apple, Michael Couzens, Paul Goldsmith, Betsy Guignon, Stanton Kaye, Anda Korsts, Andy Mann and Elon Soltes
1972
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), New York City, forms TV/Media Program. New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), total appropriation is 16.3 million. Staff of Film, TV/Media and Literature Program: Peter Bradley (Director), Barbara Haspiel (Film Associate), Russell Connor (TV/Media Associate), Lydia Silman (TV/Media Program Assistant), Constance Eiseman (Literature Associate). Directors have included: Peter Bradley, Paul Ryan, Russell Connor, Gilbert Konishi, Lydia Silman, Nancy Legge, John Giancola, Debby Silverfine, Karen Helmerson.
1972
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, under direction of Steve and DeDe Leiber for international film screenings. Funds for film and video exhibition programs.
1972
Visual Studies Workshop funded by New York State Council on the Arts ($15,000) for artists' fees for visiting artists multimedia program, and to establish research center with library of audiotapes, films and videotapes.
1972
"The First On-Air Half-Inch Videotape Festival Ever: People Television," WGBH-TV, Boston; produced by Henry Becton with Fred Barzyk and Dorothy Chiesa. Live studio event including home viewer call-ins, tape screenings and interviews with artists, engineers, business people, educators and students
1972
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Women Make Movies, New York City, under direction of Ariel Dougherty, for filmmaking workshops in Chelsea
1972
Women's Interart Center, New York, begins a post-production center. Center offers workshops, produces videotapes and sponsors artists-in-residence