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1999
Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1999 were made to: Irit Batsry "Neither There Nor Here" - video and film poetic essay evoking the different meanings of Aplace", and a voyage into a Ameta-place@ Ericka Beckman "Hiatus" - experimental 16mm narrative film about a young woman who creates an on-line interactive identity game Rosateresa Castro-Vargas "An Angel Voice in the Subway" - xperimental audio work presenting the truncation of voice by urban environmental sounds David Crawford "Here and Now" - interactive web project suggesting new relationships within the new interactive telecommunications environment Terry Cuddy "Dr. Steadfast=s Last Migraine" - absurd narrative video, reading like a post-modern ABartleby the Scrivener@ Pat Doyen "Singsong"- experimental 16mm film about association and memory and their representation Elif Savas Felsen "Coup!" - documentary film examining military coups in Turkey over the last 40 years. Rebecca Herman "Easy-to-Draw Dictators" - an examination of systems of learning, and the subtle relationships between image, mode of presentation and...
1999
Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) is established, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation.
1999
With support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, IMAP conducts a needs-assessment for a web-based cataloging tutorial and union catalog of independent media collections, under the direction of Jim Hubbard
1999
Independent Media Arts Preservation begins a technical assistance program for NYS media arts groups.
1999
Motion: An Exhibition of Essentialist Film and Video. The 58th Exhibition of Central New York Artists exhibition at Munson Williams Proctor Institute. Exhibition Guest Curator: John Knecht. Mary Murray, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Videotapes range from late 1970s through 1980s and were created at the Experimental Television Center; artists represented were Peer Bode, Matthew Schlanger, Connie Coleman, Alan Powell. Installation works by Daniella Dooling, Ralph Hocking, Peter HUtton, Ken Jacobs, Carol Kinne, Heidi Kumao, Les Leveque, Neil Zusman.
1999
Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Kadambari Baxi, Tom E. Brown, Veena Cabreros Sud, Jim Campbell, Sandi DuBowski, Natalie Jeremijenko, Art Jones, Jesse Lerner, Erik Loyer, Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir, David H. Riker, Jay Rosenblatt, Ira Sachs, Rea Tajiri
1999
"School Prayer: A Community Divided" produced by Slawomir Grunberg and Ben Crane. The work received support from the New York State Council on the Arts through the sponsorship of the Experimental Television Center, the Soros Documentary Fund and the Independent Television Service. School Prayer: A Community Divided received a 2000 Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage Of a Continuing News Story. It has been screened at the Leipzig International Film Festival, the Athens International Film Festival, the Double Take Film Festival, the NY Lower East Side Film Festival, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, X International Documentary Film Festival (Portugal), and the Louisville Film and Video Festival. It received Best of the Festival award at the Hope and Dreams Film Festival, the Bronze Plaque at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, and the Bronze Award at the Flagstaff International Film Festival.
1999
Transmission: Exhibition. Bakalar and Huntington Galleries at Massachusetts College of Art. January 25th - February 27th, 1999. David Atwood, Staff Director, WGBH, 1967-1980 Presentors: Fred Barzyk, Executive Producer, WGBH/New Television Workshop, 1964-1981 Russell Connor, artist/writer/producer Betsy Connors, video artist/holographer Susan Dowling, Executive Director, NTW, 1982-93, co-curator, Transmission Michèle Furst, Director, BF/VF, 1978-80, co-curator, Transmission Jennifer Hall, Environmental Design Department, MassArt, Do While Studio Chrissie Iles, Curator of Film and Video, Whitney Museum of American Art Beryl Korot, video artist Dana Moser, Studio for Interrelated Media, MassArt Bob Riley, Curator of Media Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Special presentation on archiving and preserving video art by Carl Piermarini, Program Materials Supervisor and Selene Colburn, Project Archivist, New Television Workshop Project, Media Archives and Preservation Center, WGBH. Performance by Kristin Lucas. Installations include: Text and Commentary, 1977 by Beryl Korot. Egg Grows, 1984, by Nam June Paik. Untitled (MPD), 1998, by Tony Oursler. Three Tales: Hindenburg, 1998,...
1998
Ausprobieren (to experiment) a multidisciplinary notation free performance by Peer Bode, Tony Conrad, Andrew Deutsch, Kevin McCoy, and Steina Vasulka. Video History - Making Connections Conference at Syracuse University, October 1998, sponsored by the Experimental Television Center.
1998
Bill Viola retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art. February 12 - May 10, 1998. Exhibition itinerary included Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Stedelikj Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Catalog includes A Feeling for the Things Themselves - David Ross; Conversation - Lewis Hyde and Bill Viola; Selected Works 1972-1996 Kira Perov and Bill Viola. Catalog of works; exhibition history; chronology.
1998
Circuits@NYS - The Arts in a Digital Age. Governor's Conference on Arts and Technology. March 27-29, 1998. Palisades, NY. The first statewide forum focused on the intersection of the arts and the expanding technology industry. A project of the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts. Introductory acknowledgements by Debby Silverfine, Director of the Media and Film Program, New York State Council on the Arts.
1998
Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1998 were made to: Alan Berliner "Found Sound" - A downloadable and playable interactive sonic art project for the web. Additional support from New Television's NTV Artbytes project. Anita Cheng "The Secret Sharer" - A duet performance of a dancer with herself through a digital video exploration of time displacement between live and recorded dance performance. Abigail Child "The Russian Chronicles" - Bending montage to expand its shape out of the ideological, incorporating ambiguity, daily life, satire and critical analysis within a musical structure, the video references the city symphonies of the 1920s, specifically Dziga Vertov's classic Man With a Movie Camera (1928), but inversely - coming at the end of the century and the Soviet era. Additional support from a Fulbright Fellowship and the Banff Center. Cathy Cook "Beyond Voluntary Control" - An experimental 16mm film which explores the experience of confinement due to physical and psychological illness. Additional support from NYSCA. Ann Curran "Transmission" - A 16mm film which...
1998
International Student Residency at the Experimental Television Center; program director and instructor, Pamela Hawkins Hank Rudolph, Co-Instructor. participating institutions included University of Buffalo; Alfred University; Atlanta College of Art; National Art Academy, Oslo.; Syracuse University. Annual. Begun 1995.
1998
Landscape: Mediated Views exhibition at Visual Studies Workshop January 30-April 3, 1998. Catalog texts by Sherry Miller Hocking. Administration: Bob Doyle. Artists: Jeffrey Lerer, Kristin Lucas, Peer Bode, Mary Lucier, John Orentlicher, Branda Miller, Mike Camoin, Dave Ryan, Steina, Barbara Buckner, Bill Viola, Philip Mallory Jones, Woody Vasulka. Support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Chase Manhattan Bank
1998
Magnetic Media Preservation Sourcebook, edited by Mona Jimenez and Liss Platt, published by Media Alliance
1998
Pioneers of Digital Photography at Open Space Gallery. Curator: Mary Ross. July 8 - August 11, 1998. Works by Peer Bode, Nancy Burson, Walter Chappell, Larry Gartel, Carl Geiger, Robert Heinecken, William Larson, Graham Nash, Nam June Paik, Sheila Pinkel, Mary Ross, Sonia Sheridan, Howard Sochurek, Mary Jo Toles, Woody Vasulka, Joan Truckenbrod, Julius Vitali, Linda White