Events by Year

1996

"Not Still Art" Festival in Cherry Valley, NY, organized by Carol Goss. Participants include Robert Doyle, Carol Goss, Peer Bode, Walter Wright.

1996

Playback 1996: Video Preservation Roundtable, held in San Francisco on March 29-30, and organized by the Bay Area Video Coalition with assistance from Media Alliance. The international symposium, funded by the Getty Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, is the first to build alliances between the media arts and art conservation

1996

"Reel Work: Artists' Film and Video of the 1970s", exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. February 24-May 2, 1996. Curated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley. Introduction by Dara Meyers-Kingsley. Essay by Chris Chang. Chris Burden; Dennis Oppenheim; Dan Graham; Richard Serra; Bruce Nauman; Keith Sonnier; John Baldessari; Lawrence Weiner; Vito Acconci; Paul McCarthy; William Wegman; Edward Ruscha; Yoko Ono; Hahhan Wilke; Martha Rosler; Allen Ruppersberg; Nancy Graves; Nancy Holt; Ilene Segalove; Elenor Antin; Linda Benglis; Robert Morris; Andy Warhol; Gordon Matta-Clark; Robert Smithson; Bas Jan Alder.

1996

Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Nancv Buchanan, Shu Lea Cheang, Tony Cokes, Mindy Faber, Tamara Villarreal Ford, Melanie Printup Hope, Louis Massiah, Jon Moritsugu, Pat O'Neill, Mitko Panov, Yvonne Rainer, Ellen Spiro, Brian Springer, Ellen L. Sumter

1996

Steina and Woody Vasulka: Machine Media exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Catalog editor: Marita Sturken. Articles on Installations (Robert Riley), Videotapes (Marita Sturken), and essays by Sturken, Maureen Turim and Woody Vasulka. Biographies. Videography. Exhibition history. Curators: Robert Riley and Marita Sturken

1995

Bay Area Video Coalition opens the first non-profit remastering facility for ?" open reel tape, under the direction of Luke Hones

1995

Commercial dial-up systems include Compuserve, AOL, Prodigy

1995

DVC video recording format publically available

1995

First Internet wiretap by Secret Service and Drug Enforcement Agency trap cell phone cloners

1995

Sun launches Java

1995

RealAudio introduced

1995

Rockefeller Foundation awarded Film/Video Multimedia Fellowships to Susana Aikin, Carlos Avila, Ellen Bruno, George Burdeau, Larry Clark, Jem Cohen, Chris Eyre, Lisa Mann, Susan Meiselas, Salem Mekuria, Meena Nanji, Xiaolian Peng, Daniel Reeves, Jonathan Robinson

1995

The United States Patent Office overturns the decision to grant Gilbert Hyatt a patent on the microprocessor. The ruling recognizes Texas Instruments' Gary Boone as the prior inventor of the microprocessor.

1995

The Upstate Cataloging Project holds a training session in May, supported by Media Alliance and led by Jim Hubbard, associated with Anthology Film Archives, with assistance from Henry Mattoon, Director of NAMID

1995

Video Spaces: Eight Installations exhibition curated by Barbara London for the Museum of Modern Art. Catalog text by Barbara London; works by Judith Barry and Brad Miskell, Stan Douglas, Teiji Furuhashi, Gary Hill, Chris Marker, Marcel Odenbach, Tony Oursler, Bill Viola. Bibliography

1994

Alexander Hahn - Rats.Ratten exhibition at daadgalerie, Berlin. June 18-July 31, 1994.

1994

Apple introduces Power Macintosh 6100/60 $2209

1994

Commodore Computers files for bankruptcy

1994

Finishing Funds is a grants program of the Experimental Television Center, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Awards for 1994 were made to: Pat Abt Requiem Songs: For the Victims of Nationalism Vivek Renjen Bald Taxi-vala Don Bernier Suture David Blair Wax: The Discovery of Television Among the Bees Steve Bradley Liberty and Justice for (which)all(?) Lawrence Brose CAGE: A FilmicCircus Yau Ching Video Letters Ron Ehmke & Richard Wicka Snap Judgments John Ewing The Castle is Burning Chuck Furoyú Thunderbird Theatre Marc Gordon Wayne County Artisans Vincent Grenier Feet Pamela Hawkins Purpose, Integrity and Survival Mechanisms Denise Iris Booyaka! Carol Kalil The Electronic Magic Lantern Show Grace Lee Camp Arirang Jeffrey Lerer Memory Box II & III Branda Miller Witness to the Future Dean Moss Synchronized Swimming Betsy Newman Frank in Love Producciones Homovision Homovision Michael Schell and 77 Hz Eclectic Company: 77 Hz/Rev2 Mary Ellen Strom Pink Stephen Vitiello Fantastic Prayers Panel: Anne Fergerson and Mona Jimenez

1994

Communities begin to be wired to Internet

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