ARPANET design discussions held, meetings among three independent teams working on packet networks (RAND, NLP- National Physics Lab in England - and ARPA)
Events by Year
Channel of Soul, 16mm film workshop, Buffalo, directed by Pamela Dodes Felderman. One of the first funded 16mm film production workshops. Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
Experimental Television Workshop at KQED-TV, San Francisco. Directed by Brice Howard and Paul Kaufman. Established with a Rockefeller Foundation grant
Experiments in Art and Technology, Billy Kluver, Director. Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film Project is reorganized as Film Program. Supports film tours, production training, equipment access and film appreciation.
"Festival of Lights" at Howard Wise Gallery, New York City. Exhibition of kinetic lights works that include video works by Serge Boutourline, Nam June Paik, Aldo Tambellini and others
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) receives New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) support for its Film Department
"Electronic Blues" by Nam June Paik in "Lights in Orbit," Howard Wise Gallery, New York City. Viewer participation video installation
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) establishes the Public Media Program
Organization and Location of the American Film Institute, or the Stanford Report published. This was a research study assembled before the creation of the American Film Institute, and addressing questions about this soon-to-be-created AFI. "The authors of the report had little interest in either the non-feature-length film (a prejudice they acknowledged) or the possibility of encouraging regional development of film activity. " (from Report 11979: NAMAC, published by AIVF). The model of a centrally located center for film study and education was adopted; the AFI was located in Los Angeles, with a second operation in Washington, DC. A structural model using satellite or regional affiliates was rejected. The AFI was to be the most visible and public entity in the film and media field.
The Film Club, 16mm production workshop for Lower East Side teens, organized by Jaime Barrios. One of the first funded 16mm film production workshops. Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
The Movie Bus, organized by Rodger Larson. Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to tour New York City boroughs, screening Film Club productions.
"Light/Motion/Space," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in collaboration with Howard Wise Gallery, New York City. Travels to Milwaukee Art Center. Includes video works by Nam June Paik, Aldo Tambellini and others
WGBH-TV inaugurates artist-in-residence program with grant from the Rockefeller Foundation
"9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering" at the 69th Regiment, New York City. Organized by Billy Kl¸ver. Mixed media performance events with collaborations between ten artists and forty engineers. Video projection used in works of Alex Hay, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor and Robert Whitman.
"TIME" - b/w, Commissioned by the National Swedish Television. Electronic paintings created with a termporarily built video synthesizer, by Ture Sjolander and Bror Wilkstrom, televised in September 1966. 30 minutes. Ture Sjolander has written, "TIME is the very first ''videoart'-work televised as an ultimate exhibition/installation statement, televised at that point in ''time' for the reason to produce an historical record as well as an evidence of ''original' visual free art, made with the electronic medium - manipulation of the electronic signal - and ''exhibited/installed through the televison, televised."