NSF funds an interconnection among 5 super-computer centers at major universities (Princeton, Cornell, UCSD). First freenet is on-line in Cleveland
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1986
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated the development of the NSFNET. Today NSFNET provides a major backbone communication service for the Internet. With its 45 megabit per second facilities, the NSFNET carries on the order of 12 billion packets per month between the networks it links. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Department of Energy contributed additional backbone facilities in the form of the NSINET and ESNET respectively. In Europe, major international backbones such as NORDUNET and others provide connectivity to over one hundred thousand computers on a large number of networks. Commercial network providers in the U.S. and Europe are beginning to offer Internet backbone and access support on a competitive basis to any interested parties. "Regional" support for the Internet is provided by various consortium networks and "local" support is provided through each of the research and educational institutions. Within the United States, much of this support has come from the federal and state governments, but a considerable contribution has been made by industry. In Europe and elsewhere, support arises from cooperative...
1986
Video in the Park Festival. August 4-13, 1986. New York City. Curator was Carlota Schoolman, former curator of video at The Kitchen.
1986
WGBH-Boston becomes co-producer of WNET, New York City "New Television" series of artists' videotapes
1985
"Emerging Expression: The Artist and the Computer", Bronx Museum of Art
1985
Global Village 11th Annual Documentary Festival at Global Village. Program notes by Renee Tajima. Artists include Jon Alpert, Long Bow Group, Steve Brand, Robert Thurber, Arthur Dong, Chris Spotted Eagle, Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines, Maxi Cohen, Xchange TV, Jill Godmilow, Alonzo Speight, Tami Gold and Lyn Goldfarb, Robin Schanzenbach,.
1985
Akwesasne Cultural Center, Hogansburg, funded for video workshops and to tour Native American films to community centers in northern New York
1985
Akwesasne Cultural Center, Hogansburg. NYSCA funded video workshops and tour of Native American films to community centers in Northern NY.
1985
Alternating Currents exhibition (June 15-Juiy 6,1985) at the Alternative Museum in New York. is an exhibition of artworks using television as a documentary tool and expressive medium. Video is known to most people only through their living rooms as TV, a medium which presents situation comedies, soap operas, the news, rock videos and Hollywood movies. But network television presents only certain types of information in a very structured fashion. This exhibit will show other ways that video may be used to present programs which not only entertain and inform, but also act as artistic visions which explore the poetential uses of television. Co-Curators: Terry Berkowitz David Donihue Artists: Eugenia Balcells Caterina Borelli Barbara Broughel Nancy Burson Richard Carling Bill Creston Bonnie Donohue Dieter Froese Alexander Hahn Sara Hornbacher Bob Harris Joanne Kelly David Kramlich Tom Leeser Larry Miller Peter Mitchell Rita Myers Betsy Newman Paul Nichols Barbara Rosenthal Arlene Schloss Diane Spodarek Ellin Stein Twin Art Eva Type The Video Band Warner Wada Reynold Weidenaar Diana Wilson Jay Yager
1985
Checkerboard Foundation recieves matching funds from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for video artists' fellowships
1985
Concerned Black Filmmakers/20 West Theatre funded for its independent black film repertory cinema housed in a Harlam brownstone; Jessie Maple and Leroy Patton, co-founders
1985
Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Director, Media Program, New York State Council on the Arts, 1985-1988.
1985
Diference: On Representation and Sexuality Videotapes curated by Jane Weinstock New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC December 8, 1984-February 10, 1985 Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago March 3 - April 7, 1985 Institute of Contemporary Art, London July 19-September 1, 1985
1985
Media Alliance Annual Conference, The Kitchen, New York City, September 12-14, 1985. Robin White, Director of Media Alliance. Keynote address by Deirdre Boyle; Arts Advocacy in New York by Demi McGuire (Arts Coalition of the Empire State), Diane Martuscello (Alliance of NYS Arts Councils), Richard Gottfried (NYS Assembly), Paul Twardy (NYS Senate), Rochelle Slovin (American Museum of the Moving Image); Video Preservation in 1985 - Mary Lea Bandy (MOMA), Bob Harris (Anthology Film Archives); Alan Lewis (CBS News Archive); Barbara London (MOMA). Experimental Television Center Presents New Equipment: a demonstration of newly designed artists' tools by David Jones and a videotape screening organized by Shalom Gorewitz. . Minority Producers Move in Video - Shu Lea Cheang, Victor Masayesva, Michelle Parkerson, Victor Sanchez, Rene Tajimi.
1985
1985 National Video Festival at The American Film Institute September 19-22, 1985. Videotapes by Skip Blumberg; Gary Hill. Essays by Colin McCabe, John Hanhardt, Lyn Blumenthal, Bruce Jenkins and Robert Rosen. Texts on topics: Cinema/ Television Intersections; The New Technology; An International Television Profile; Festival Student Competition with essay by John Giancola.