Amateur Computer Society founder by Steven Gray
Events by Year
1966
Challenge for Change program was begun in 1966 to create films and later videotapes about the social concerns of various Canadian communities. In1968 George Stoney becomes Director.
1966
Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT) founded. Supports collaborations between artists and engineers. Billy Kluver, founder. EAT sought to pair artists with engineers, and worked with Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, John Cage and Andy Warhol. Some collaborations were exhibited at the World Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.
1966
Film Program established at New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). First government funded touring film program, funds for media in schools, and for film rentals and guest speakers.
1966
"Selma Last Year" by Ken Dewey, New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, Philharmonic Hall Lobby, New York City. Multichannel video installation with photographs by Bruce Davidson, music by Terry Riley
1966
Contemporary Voices in the Arts toured Stan VanDerBeek and Billy Kluver to colleges for workshops and public presentations. Supported by New York State Council on the Arts.
1965
Independent Electronic Music Center, Trumansberg, New York. Founded by Robert Moog and Reynold Weidenaar in 1965. Weidenaar was connected with the Center from the Summer of 1965 to February 1969, and edited Electronic Music Review.
1965
In August 1965, NYSCA Executive Director John Hightower convened an advisory group to discuss ways the Council could help disseminate distribution information and tour films to communities throughout the state. (2) The group included Ralph Hetzel, the acting head of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Margareta Akermark, from the Museum of Modern Art's Film Library; Amos Vogel, founder of Cinema 16 and Program Director of the newly-founded New York Film Festival; and producers Arthur Meyer and Dore Shary, who soon after became the first Commissioner of New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs. This resulted in the Film Project, under the direction of Peter Bradley.
1965
"Electronic Art" exhibition by Nam June Paik at Galeria Bonino, New York City. Paik's first gallery exhibition in the U.S.
1965
Legislation creates the National Endowment for the Arts, which establishes The American Film Institute. One of the goals of the AFI is to preserve our heritage of film and television.
1965
Rockefeller Foundation began to fund artists for experimentation with video.
1965
Sony introduces 1/2" CV-2000, the first consumer video format. This was not a portable system.
1965
"New Cinema Festival I" (Expanded Cinema Festival), The Film-Makers Cinematheque. Organized by John Brockman. Festival explores uses of mixed-media projection, including viseo, sound, and light experiments
1965
Precision Instruments introduces Variscan which allows continuously variable playback speed.
1964
First public demonstration of satellite television feed using a stationary satellite.
1964
"Jazz Images," producer, Fred Barzyk presented by WGBH-TV. Five short visualizations of music for broadcast; one of the first attempts at experimental television