First New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding to public television stations in Binghamton, Rochester, Garden City, Schenectady, Buffalo and Syracuse. Funding for cultural programming.
Events by Year
1970
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Raindance Corporation, New York City, under direction of Frank Gillette, Beryl Korot and Ira Schneider.
1970
Raindance Foundation, New York, publishes Radical Software; Co-editors, Phyllis Gershuny and Beryl Korot; Published by Ira Schneider and Michael Shamberg; published 1970-1974, vols. 1-2. Alternative video magazine and information channel for distribution and exchange of video works. The complete set of issues is online at http://www.radicalsoftware.org/
1970
Russell Connor, Director, Media Program, New York State Council on the Arts 1970-1973
1970
Stephen Beck, San Francisco, builds Direct Video Synthesizer 1, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
1970
Stephen Beck received a grant to develop the Direct Video Synthesizer for National Center for Experiments in Television at KQED-TV in San Francisco.
1970
With support from the New York State Council on the Arts, Ralph Hocking incorporated Student Experiments in Television as the Community Center for TV Production (Experimental Television Center), a non-profit media center and moved to a loft space in downtown Binghamton.
1970
Synapse Video Center (formerly University Community Union Video), Syracuse, New York, founded; Directors and others include Lance Wisniewski, Henry Baker, Carl Geiger. Video and post-production center
1970
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds The Jewish Museum, in conjunction with the Harlem Cultural Council, for a Black Fim Festival, tours nationally
1970
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Shirley Clarke's Tower Playpen Videospace Troupe, New York City. First New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding to groups exploring the creative use of video.
1970
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), New York City, forms TV/Media Program. Directors and others associated with the program include: Peter Bradley, Paul Ryan, Russell Connor, Gilbert Konishi, Lydia Silman, Nancy Legge, John Giancola, Arthur Tsuchiya, Deborah Silverfine, Claude Myers
1970
Video Free America founded by Arthur Ginsberg and Skip Sweeney; Directors: Joanne Kelly and Skip Sweeney. Video production group with post-production and screening programs
1970
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds Videofreex (working with the Rochester Museum and Science Center).
1970
Final design and construction of the last Vidium by Bill Hearn. This device was loaned to the Exploratorium, San Francisco.
1969
"Corridor" exhibition by Bruce Nauman, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles. Installation with video
1969
"Subject to Change," SQN Productions for CBS, New York. Produced by Don West. Program of videotapes initiated by Don West with CBS and produced by Videofreex and other members of the video community. Videotapes produced on all aspects of the counterculture (alternative shools, communes, radicals, Black Panthers, riots, demonstrations, etc.) Never broadcast.
1969
"The Medium is the Medium," WGBH-TV, Boston. Produced by Fred Barzyk, Anne Gresser and Pat Marx. First presentation of works by independent video artists aired on television. Thirty-minute program with works by Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, James Seawright, Thomas Tadlock and Aldo Tambellini. Broadcast of "The Medium is the Medium" by WGBH TV in Boston on March 23, 1969.
1969
ARPANET commissioned by Department of Defense for research into networking. Nodes included UCLA, Stanford, U of California at Santa Barbara, U of Utah.