Challenge for Change at NYU conference November 21-23, 1971. 50 participants from NYS met with people from the Challenge for Change unit of the National Film Board of Canada. The NYU Media Coop gathered tapes and print materials concerning the proceedings. Conference was sponsored by the NYU Media Coop, the Alternate Media Center at NYU. Participants included Bonnie Klein (Media Equipment Pool, Rochester) Lynn McVeigh (Hunter College) Women's Video Collective, Open Channel, Ralph Hocking (Experimental Television Center), St. John Fisher College in Rochester, Red Burns ( Alternate Media Center at NYU), Lillian Katz (Port Washington Public Library), Joel Gold (Alternate Media Center at NYU), Len Chatwin (Challenge for Change), George Stoney (Alternate Media Center at NYU), Beryl Korot (Raindance), Bernard Grey (Community Video Center ), Skip Blumberg (Videofreex), Michael Shamberg, Thea Sklover, Bart Friedman (Videofreex), Gay Activists' Video Alliance, Tom Johnson (Social Research and Action Center at Antioch College), Jan Jalton (Blue Bus), Lee Fergueson (Women's Video Collective), Michael Goldberg (Video Exchange Directory in Vancouver)
Events by Year
Creative Artists Public Service Program Video Fellowships for 1970-71. Lee Ferguson, Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, Juan Garcia, Elliot Glass, Ken Marsh, Woody Vasulka. Panelists: Raphael Abramowitz, George Stoney, Howard Wise.
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Electronic Arts Intermix, New York City, for the Avant-Garde Festival at the 69th Regiment Armory, organized by Charlotte Moorman
February 10, 1971. Eric Siegel announces the Electronic Video Synthesizer. Information available through Howard Wise Gallery.
Everson Museum, Syracuse, establishes first video department in a major museum, under the direction of James Harithas. Video curators include David Ross and later Richard Simmons
First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to the Everson Museum, Syracuse. Funding for film.
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Experiments in Art and Technology, under direction of Billy Kluver . Funding for a cable project.
First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to Film Forum, New York City. Funds to exhibit independent films.
First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to Finch College Museum of Art. Funding for video.
Guerilla Television by Michael Shamberg and Raindance Corporation published by Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, New York. Manual of alternative television with graphic by Ant Farm
First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to the Guggenheim Museum, New York City. Funding for film.
First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to International Museum of Photography/George Eastman House, Rochester. Funds for film screenings and an International Film Festival.
Ithaca Video Projects, Ithaca, New York, founded; director Phillip Mallory Jones. Organization for promotion of electronic communication. Also associated Gunilla Mallory Jones.
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Media Bus, Lanesville, established by the Videofreex. Funding for mobile media bus workshop program.
Media Bus, Lanesville, New York, founded by the Videofreex. Media center begins by producing "Lanesville TV," weekly program about the community that is the first low-power television (LPTV) station
Media Equipment Resource Center (MERC), New York City, initiated by Young Filmmakers/Video Arts opens. Equipment loan service for artists and organizations
First time New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding award to Media Study Buffalo, under direction of Gerald O'Grady. Funds for equipment access, workshops and film/video screenings.