Video and the Art Museum

Video and the Art Museum, April 4-6, 1974. A three-day workshop and seminar at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. Supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. Included art presentations by William Wegman, Phil Niblock (film retrospectives), Frank Gilette, Walter Wright (Paik/Abe Synthesizer installation and demonstration, Experimental Television Center), Juan Downey (Video Trans America) and on-going tape screenings of Circuit: A Video Invitational and works by Andy Mann (Video Matrix), Ira Schneider (Manhattan is an Island), Nam June Paik (TV Garden and Video Buddha), Peter Campus (Closed Circuit Video). Other presentations included Video and the Art Museum, The Museum as Producer of Educational Programming, Cable TV and the Prospect for Museum Interaction, The Range of Creative Expression in Video, Funding for Video in the Museum, Aesthetics of Video: A Critical Overview amd seminars in portapack training, and a production seminar at Synapse.

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1974