Internet - commercial possibilities include shopping, banner ads. First cyberbank appears.
Events by Year
1994
Media Alliance convenes a meeting of key New York media organizations. Cataloging was identified as an important first step, using a compatible database
1994
Media Alliance, under the direction of Mona Jimenez, proposes to the National Endowment for the Humanities a model partnership with the NAMID program to achieve compatible cataloging among media organizations across a broad geographic area. Although never funded, the proposal provides a foundation for collaboration on cataloging. Organizations included were Anthology Film Archives, Art Media Studies Department of Syracuse University, Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Experimental Television Center, Everson Museum of Art, Hallwalls, Media Bus, Paper Tiger Television, Port Washington Public Library, Tisch School of the Arts of New York University, Visual Studies Workshop and Woodstock Public Library.
1994
Mosaic Communications releases Netscape Navigator 1.0, a world-wide web browser.
1994
Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Helen De Michiel, Loni Ding, Arthur Dong, Stephen Dwoskin, Philip Mallory Jones, Sylvia Morales, Pepon Osorio, Randy Redroad, Marlon Riggs, Cauleen Smith, Renee Tajima?Pena, John Valadez, David Williams, Andrei Zagdansky
1994
Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents. A series of 21 programs of film and video funded between 1961 and 1993, by the New York State Council on the Arts, relfecting their dual commitment to fostering the work of creative artists and promoting the development of artistic forms and disciplines. Curators: Linda Earle, Leanne Mella, Debby SIlverfine. Catalog texts by Debby Silverfine, Daryl Chin, Leanne Mella, Marita Sturken, Pearl Bowser. Chronology of activities; listing of grant recipients 1961-1993
1994
"Set in Motion" opens at the Walter Reade Theater, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York City
1994
The Upstate Cataloging Project meets in Rochester in August with Margaret Byrne, Director of NAMID. Representatives of ETC, Hallwalls, Syracuse University, and Visual Studies Workshop. This results in the adopting of a NAMID-compatible template, designed to allow conversion to USMARC.
1993
Alexander Hahn - Of Shadow and Light exhibition at World Wide Video Center, Den Haag. December 5, 1993 - January 10, 1994.
1993
Apple Computer introduces the "AV" Macintosh systems, which integrate telecommunications, video and speed technologies on the desktop for the first time.
1993
Bay Area Video Coalition receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts to establish a center for re-mastering obsolete formats of videotape, under the leadership of Sally Jo Fifer and Luke Hones.
1993
CEPA Gallery Winter 1992-1993. Essays by Mona Jimenez, Joe Scheer concerning use of electronic tools in art; interview with Nathan Lyons
1993
Computer Art: An Ohio Perspective at the Dayton Visual Arts Center. Curator: Tom Baggs and Jud Yalkut. Catalog includes artists' statements and videographies; bibliography
1993
David Blair's "Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees" is the first feature-length work transmitted over the Internet
1993
Publication of Deirdre Boyle's Video Preservation: Securing the Future of the Past, published by Media Alliance
1993
eine DATA base: Nam June Paik book edited by Klaus Bubmann. Essays by Paik, John Canaday, Calvin Thompkins, Otto Piene, Wulf Herzogenrath and letters by many artists.
1993
Groundbreaking for the Film Preservation Center of the Museum of Modern Art.