Events by Year

1983

Artist's Video I: Video in the Boroughs. at Downtown Cultural Center Gallery Two. Curator: Sara Hornbacher. Tapes by Peer Bode

1983

Artist's Video II: Video in the Boroughs at Pratt Institute. Curator: Sara Hornbacher. Work by Neil Zusman.

1983

1983 Asian American International Film Festival. Catalog editor: David Low. Introductory text by Daryl Chin.

1983

Video Texts: 1983. Bob Harris, Video Curator. Anthology Film ArchivesTexts by John Hanhardt, Buky Schwartz, Robert Haller. Screenings at AFA 1974-1983.

1983

"Changing Times, Changing Needs", annaul conference Media Alliance

1983

Coleco Industries announces the Coleco Adam computer

1983

Commodore SX-64 first color portable computer $1600

1983

CAPS exhibition at Downtown Community TV Center. May 10, 1983. Excerpt by Jim Hoberman (The Village Voice, May 8, 1983): "CAPS Winners: Both 1984 CAPS fellows, Abby Luby and Barbara Rosenthal are radically different video artists. Luby uses computer graphics and processed images to make "electronic tapestries"; Rosenthal documents victims of cancer and concentration camps. The program is a benefit for famine relief in East Africa. May 10, Downtown Community TV Center."

1983

Desktop workstations come into being, many with Berkeley UNIX (4.2 BSD) which includes IP networking software

1983

Digital Research releases its first version of the GEM graphical windowing operating system

1983

Film Program begins pilot program to support distribution of New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funded films

1983

Global Village Eighth Annual Video and Television Documentary Festival and catalog. Barbara Rosenthal, International Women''s Project, Diego Echeverria/Terra Productions, Americas In Transition Inc, Phillip Mallory ones, Geoffrey O''Connor, David Fanning and Antony Thomas, Dennis Lanson, Lynn Corcoran, Derrick Mancini and James Ovitt, Lori Cohen and Sally Kingsbury, St. Claire Bourne, Stevenson J. Palfi, Blaine Dunlap and Sol Korina, Gerardine Wurzburg and Thomas Goodwin and Dorothy McGhee, Ellen Freyer, Laura Foreman, David Bradbury, Tom Johnson and Lance Bird, Molly Rush and Arthur Kamell and Terry Williams, Doug Eisenstark, Helen Whitney, Erik Knorr, Richard Hammerstrom, Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn, Amalie Rothschild, Julene Bair and George Csicsery, Skip Blumberg, Ann Peck, DeeDee Halleck, Martha Stuart, and Maxi Cohen.

1983

Hudson River Museum "Electronic Visions" curated by John Minkowsky. Included work by Ralph Hocking

IBM
1983

IBM introduces IBM PC Jr. computer.

1983

IBM Personal Computer XT $4995

1983

Image/Process II at The Kitchen. Curator: Shalom Gorewitz. Artists: Steina Vasulka; Woody Vasulka; Barbara Buckner; Frank Dietrich and ZsuZsa Molnar; Lisa Marie Sanfilipo; Neil Zusman; Pier Marton; Max Almay

1983

In February 1984 Afterimage reported that the 9th Annual Festival which contained 22 tapes might not be circulated; 80 weeks of rentals had to be secured to insure that expenses could be met. The 9th IVP Festival was funded in 1982-83.

1983

LISA computer introduced by Apple $10,000

1983

General Membership meeting of Media Alliance May 6-7, 1983 Rochester. Panels "Public Access Cable TV" Jaime Davidovich (Artists Television Network), Alexis Greene, Chuck Sherwood (Channel L Working Group), David Shapiro (independent producer); "Evolution of Media Centers" Margot Lewitin (Women's Interart Center), Walter Borton (Ithaca Video Projects), Robert Shea (Portable Channel), Nathan Lyons (Visual Studies Workshop); "Media Centers and Intependent Artists/Producers" with Carol Brandenberg (TV Lab), Skip Blumberg (independent producer), Ralph Hocking (Experimental Television Center), Tony Conrad (independent producer), Emily Armstrong (Production Facilities Project), Kit Fitzgerald (independent producer). Screening at Pyramid Art Center.

1983

Corporate program, industry funded, allowing artists to use commerical facilites at reduced rates at Online, established by Media Alliance, New York City

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