"New Television" series of artists' videotapes inaugurated at WNET, New York City
Events by Year
1985
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) begins to administer New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funded film, video and screenwriting fellowships
1985
New York Foundation for the Arts announced video fellowships to Richard Bloes, Maxi Cohen, Dee Dee Halleck, Kathy High, Warrington Hudlin, Jull Kroesen, Shigeko Kubota, Michael Marton, Tony Oursler, Alex Roshuk, Martha Rosler, Tomiyo Sasaki, Matt Schlanger. Panelists were Dena Crane, Davidson Gigliotti, Ralph Hocking, Ardele Lister, Lynn Blumenthal
1985
registered domains first used - first was Symbolics.com, others were purdue.edu, and ucla.edu
1985
Revising Romance: New Feminist Video Distributed by the American Federation of Arts Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, September 1 - December 31, 1984 University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus April 1985 Northwest Film Study Center, Portland, OR July 1985 Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY September 1985
1984
The National Center for Film and Video Preservation is established by the American Film Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts. Its mission includes The Film Foundation, The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and the National Moving Image Database (NAMID) project which centralizes information on the film and television holdings of American archives and producers, and has assisted many organizations with the cataloging of film and video collections
1984
Global Village 10th Annual Documentary Festival: The National Tour. Catalog essays by Ann-Sargent Wooster; Renee Tajima; Susan Linfield. Artists include James Byrne, Jamie Davidovich, Loni Ding, DeeDee Halleck, Juan Downey, Maxi Cohen, Andrew Kolker and Luis Alvarez, Jon Alpert, George Lucas, Shalom Gorewitz.
1984
NYSCA support to Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System to build circulating video art collection for WNY
1984
Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System funded to build a circulating collection of video art for western New York. Jean Haynes, Librarian, responsible for activity in the program .
1984
"Living in Glass Houses", Connie Coleman and Alan Powell, Philadelphia.
1984
The Institute of Contemporary Art and WGBH-TV in Boston collaborate to create the Contemporary Art Television Fund, which will commission and co-produce new video works. Co-Directors of the Fund are David Ross of ICA and Susan Dowling, producer at WGBH's New Television Workshop. Curator was Kathy Huffman, who had also curated at the Regional Media Art Center at the Long Beach Museum in California. The CAT Fund accepted and solicited proposals and provided assistance for production, post-production and distribution. The Fund supported not only works for television, but also installations. Funding was initially provided by WGBH, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. The distribution program of the CAT Fund was intended to generate income for the Fund.
1984
Creative Artists Public Service Program rejects offer from New York State Council on the Arts for continued support of some fellowship categories at reduced levels, sharing responsibility with the New York Foundation for the Arts. Previously, NYSCA had reassigned some categories to the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 1983-84 CAPS awarded fellowships in categories in which the 1983-84 funding had been committed: choreography, fiction, film, multi-media , screenwriting/playwriting, and video. For the program year 1984-85 NYSCA had increased the fellowship support overall to $1.1 million, but selected two organizations to administer the fellowships - CAPS and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Under the Directorship of Isabelle Fernandez, CAPS was resistent to NYSCA urgings to increase outside fundraising, offer a fellowship in crafts and contain administrative costs. For 1984-85 NYSCA proposed that NYFA would administer architecture, crafts, film, video, fiction, poetry, choreography, music composition and playwriting. CAPS would administer photography, painting, graphics, sculpture and multi-media. CAPS ultimately rejected the offer.