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MEMORANDUM

Date : 11/18/77

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To : Gerald O'GradyTony ConradJames BlueWoody VasulkaHollis FramptonCMS Office

From : John Pittas

Re : CMS Video Lab Inventory Fall 1977

Attached you will find the current equipment inventory for the Video Lab .

Please note the addition of one Sony Videocassette Recorder .

CENTER FOR MEDIA STUDY

VIDEO FACILITY INVENTORY

PAGE 1

SONY AV-8650 VTRw/ power cord,_ take-up reel

PANASONIC WV-3130 VTR. (A)

w] power cord, take-up reel

PANASONIC WV-3130 VTR (B) _-

#L5HB21027

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J .V .C . CR-6000U VCR

#14012672

w/ power cord, audio cord, dust cover-

J .V .C .J .V .C . CR-5000U VCP

#16915200

w/ power cord, audio cord_

SONY CVM-1720 COLOR MONITOR . .

#203148

SONY CVM-1720 COLOR MONITOR

#203319

E .A .B . COLORIZER/KEYER 200

no serial #

TOOLS :

crescent wrench (10")



,flathead screwdriverphillipshead screwdriver

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adjustable pliers

side cutting pliers

diagonal cutting pliers

needlenose pliers

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December 27, 1982

EDIVA\ 133ITU DYllU]UFF11&-\L207 DELAWARE AVENUE " BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14202 w 715/847-2555

To : FRONTIER participants

With this letter we have enclosed two copies of the series publicity forTHE FRONTIER . Broadcast of the programs is scheduled to begin February 5, 1983 .Additional copies of the publicity can be picked up at the following locations :

Toronto :

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre144 Front St . West, Suite 430593-1808

Trinity Square Video299 Queen St . West, Suite 500593-1332

Buffalo :

Media Study/Buffalo207 Delaware Avenue716-847-2555

If you wish to receive additional copies by mail, we will be glad to sendthem from Media Study, but we suggest that Toronto area residents pick them upfrom Toronto locations as the mail takes up to three weeks .

Tentative broadcast dates have been scheduled by WNED-TV Channel 17 for THEFRONTIER programs . While it is unlikely that there will be any change in theorder of the. programs, interruptions of scheduled programming can occur . Therewill be a three-week break in the series, probably during March/April, when THEFRONTIER programs will be pre-empted by Channel 17 fund-raisin_programs .

Any pre-emoted FRONTIER broadcast will be shifted to the nLE.xtopen Saturday at 11 :00 PM . The program order will remain. the same .

The dates for the following programs seem, at this time, to be relativelysecure :

Program #1

February 5,

#'2

February 12

#3

February 19

#4

February 26

For three consecutive Saturdays, not yet determined by WINED, there will bea break in scheduled programming for fund-raising . These dates will probablyoccur sometime after Program #4 . Air dates for Programs #5, #6 and ;b7 will occurroughly between March 5 and April 9 . We will notify artists whose work is inthese programs by telephone as soon as we have firm dates .

THE FRONTIER, page 2

Sincerely,

BL/cmenc .

Barbara LattanziAssistant to the Producer

Program #8

April 16 (tentative)

#9

April 23

410

April 30

#11

May 7

#12

May 14

#13

May 21

We will make an effort to contact FRONTIER participants as air dates areconfirmed and "locked into" WNED's program schedule . However, feel free to call_WNED directly, if you wish, for verification of the air date for your work asit approaches . Contact the Publicity Department at WNED-TV, 716-881-5000 .

Enclosed with this letter some of you will receive stills which were sentto us for our publicity materials . Thank you for providing them .

Please contact me or Lynn Corcoran at 716-847-2555 if you have any furtherquestions .

In the meantime, our best wishes for the new year .

207 DELAWARE AVENUE " BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14202 " 716/847-2555

September 10, 1979

The Vasulka Corporation257 Franklin St .Buffalo, N .Y . 14202

Dear Steina & Woody :

Media Study/Buffalo would like to thank you for the loan ofyour 3 Setchell monitors for use in our summer program.

Sincerely,

KF/lec

Kurt FeichtmeirCoordinator, Media Access Program

E207 DELAWARE AVENUE " BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14202 " 716/847-2555

STEINA :

PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSIONOF RECENT VIDEOTAPES

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8

8 :00 PM

UF

Steina will present a selection of recent videotapes, includingSelected Treecuts , Cantaloup and Urban Episodes , about which sheprovides the following commentary :

SELECTED TREECUTS - "This work is composed of a rhythmicalcollage of images of trees, conceived either directly from acamera or from camera images held briefly in computer memory .Additional movement is produced by an automatic in/out zoom lens ."

CANTALOUP - "This tape is about the struggle to define thebasis for computer control of--a digital image device, for adescriptive language and necessary programming languages . Thedevice was designed to be low resolution/high speed field byfield operating tool . Its microprocessor-based architecture isa concept which can achieve transformations between two imagesat video field rate, pixel by pixel (pixel = picture element) .The tape contains sequences ranging from the first artifacts ofthe machine to more program-demanding image transformations . Forexample, working with digitzing and storing the image in memorygives the option of manipulating the image in variable time .Another sequence (the zoom) shows the microprocessor at work asit must recalculate the position of horizontal and verticaladdresses for each point within the video field, in order toachieve multiplication of images on the screen ."

URBAN EPISODES - "In the spring of 1975 I started to workon a series of installations and tapes all involving mechanicalmodes of camera control . The effort resulted in a collection ofworks which I call 'Machine Vision .' Ordinarily, the cameraview is associated with human view point, paying attention to thehuman condition around . In this series, the camera conforms toa mechanized decision-making of instruments, with the movementsand attention directed towards their own machine viewpoints ."

STEINA :


TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8

8 :00 PM

UUU07 UU /// NOU207 DELAWARE AVENUE " BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14202 " 716/847-2555



CANTALOUP - "This tape is about the struggle to define thebasis for computer control of a digital image device, for adescriptive language and necessary programming languages . Thedevice was designed to be low resolution/high speed field byfield operating tool . Its microprocessor-based architecture isa concept which can achieve transformations between two imagesat - video field rate, pixel by pixel (pixel = picture element) .The tape contains sequences ranging from the first artifacts ofthe machine to more program-demanding image transformations . Forexample, working with digitzing and storing the image in memorygives the option of manipulating the image in variable time .Another sequence (the zoom) shows the microprocessor at work asit must recalculate the position of horizontal and verticaladdresses for each point within the video field, in order toachieve multiplication of images on the screen ."


STEINA :


TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8

8 :00 PM

UFF~,207 DELAWARE AVENUE " BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14202 " 716/847-2555



CANTALOUP - "This tape is about the struggle to define thebasis for computer control of a digital image device, for adescriptive language and necessary programming languages . Thedevice was designed to be low resolution/high speed field byfield operating tool . Its microprocessor-based architecture isa concept which can achieve transformations between two imagesat video field rate, pixel by pixel (pixel = picture element) .The tape contains sequences ranging from the first artifacts ofthe machine to more program-demanding image transformations . Forexample, working with digitzing and storing the image in memorygives the option of manipulating the image in variable time .Another sequence (the zoom) shows the microprocessor at work asit must recalculate the position of horizontal and verticaladdresses for each point within the video field, in order toachieve multiplication of images on the screen ."


State University ofNewYork at Buffalo

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Mr . Bohuslav Vasulkac/o Center for Media StudyButler Annex A, Room 8Campus

Dear Mr . Vasulka :

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cc : Prof . Gerald O'GradyInstructional Communications Center

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August 26, 1974

This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter of acceptanceof our offer of an Associate Professorship in the Centerfor Media Study, beginning September 1, 1974 and endingAugust 31, 1977 . On behalf of the Faculty of Arts and Letters,I am most pleased that you have decided to join us .

I hopethat you will find our Faculty as congenial and as intellect-ually stimulating as we do .

I look forward to welcoming you personally in the Fall .



Woody & Steina VasulkaMedia Study, Inc .3325 Bailey AvenueBuffalo, New York 14215

Dear Woody and Steina,

We are sending you final information on our Conference, "Open Circuits :The Future of Television," at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City,January 23-25, 1974,

We wish to invite you to a pre-conference dinner which will take placeat the Museum on Tuesday evening, January 22, at Please use theMuseum entrance at 21 West 53rd Street.

Participants will be responsible for their own meals during theconference. Enclosed is the last tentative schedule for the conference .

We look forward to your active participation in the conference papers,presentations, panels and discussions . If you have any questions, pleasecall Louisa Green at 716-831-2147 until Friday, January 18 or Allison Simmonsat 212-989-2317 beginning Monday, January 21,

GO'G/lmencl .

Best wishes,

Gerald O'GradyFor the Directors

R.S .V,P, Dinner

Allison Simmons 212-989-2317

ANNEX A, ROOM 8 BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14214 TEL.(716)831-4804

January 14, 1974

FAC'ULT'Y OP ARTS AND LETTPIH ;

Mr . Bohuslav W . VasulkaInstructional Communication Center22 Foster AnnexCampus

Dear Mr . Vasulka :

It is my pleasure to appoint you to the following non-teaching professionalservice position ;

To Employee

, ~ ' Nea4 York at Buffalo

Title :

Technical Specialist

Type of Appointment :

Temporary

Annual Salary Rate :

$11,009

Effective Date of Appointment :

10/1/73

Termination Date :

This appointment will, of course, be subject to the Rules and Regulations ofthe Board of Trustees, the collective bargaining contract, the Personnel Policiesand the Laws of the State of New York . If this appointment is acceptable to you,please sign the enclosed copy of this letter where indicated below, and return itto the Personnel Department, Room 274, 1807 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, 14207 .

I accept the foregoing apin ment .

Date

- 14

Signatu

PL" .! . . " ili!)H :11- :Sh ::l, -) 6Y1

December 7, 1973

~,FFI(F ',F VICE I'RFSII)EN'r FOk ()I'ER-a7'IONF AND SFSTEMS

Sincerely yours,

Robert L . KetterPresident

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State University of New York

Dear Woodv & Steina :

UNIVERSITY-WIDE CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS

Mr . & Mrs . Woody VasulkaCenter for Media StudyState University at Buffalo3435 Main StreetBuffalo, New York 14214

Sponsored by the University-wide Committee on the Arts

February 25, 1974

I know you have discussed the University-wide Celebration of the Artswith Gerry O'Grady, so I am writing to formally invite you to take mart inthe weekend's program and direct the activities in video . The dates of theCelebration are April 26-29 at State University College at Fredonia, and weexpect a very large turn-out : perhaps a thousand people .

First, we would. appreciate your setting up a major video work as a kind ofexhibit that will be seen throughout the weekend by participants . We can offeryou some financial assistance toward the realization of such a work, and in asense, commission the work . In addition, we would like Ralph Hocking of Bing-hamton to bring Nam June Paik's video synthesizer to the Celebration, and wouldappreciate your working closely with him to coordinate these two exhibits . Iwill make a~total of $500 available to you, and you can work out with Mr . Hockingand Gerry O'Grady a fair allocation of funds between the two works as seemsnecessary . I will also pay your housing expenses for the weekend, and Mr . Hocking'sas well . We will give yot meal tickets for lunches and dinners in the Fredoniadining halls .

Second, we would appreciate your conducting student workshops in video onSaturday and Sunday mornings, April 27 and 28 . A poster is being prepared invitingstudents to apply for the workshops in which tapes they have made will be shown anddiscussed . We have invited one-half inch and one-inch tapes . Again, Gerry knowsthe details of the workshops .

(Cont'd .)

s Patricia Kerr Ross, Office of University-wide Programs in the ArtsState University of New York, 99 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 122105181474-4962

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I'm very nleased that you will work with us for this maior event in theUniversity's arts life . We are nroud of your presence in State University ofNew York, and look forward to working with you .

I'm sure that between all ofus, we can work out the details of the weekend, and introduce creative videoto the Celebration .

PKP, o ml Icc ; Gerald O'Grady

Sincerely,

Patricia kerr RossAssociate for the Arts


:, CI{l'(TIONAL ( OMMUtii( .~ I I()N ( h:N I P;I{

Woody and Steina VasulkaSeidurgata 16Reykjavik ICELAND

Dear Vasulkas,

August 21, 1973

I got your letter today . Please reply right away to my following remarks .

The only time that it will be possible to have you in Buffalo during thenext year is for twelve weeks beginning October 1 - December 21 . The NYSC ofArts grant for that is $3,600, and it would involve teaching two courses,each of which would meet for approximately three hours, say 7 :00 - 10 :00 P .M.,on two nights each . One course would be in experimental video - open to 20citizens . Another course would be for 20 representatives from local museums,cultural centers, etc . and would be to teach them to document themselves,interview visiting artists, record rehersals, etc . After that class is over,these organizations would have access to our equipment and do at least onehalf-hour "document" each month, making twenty, and these would be showneach evening on the cable stations - a very promising development .

As I understand it, you wanted to pursue two of your own interests here . Iwould hope that Woody could offer a series of three lectures at the Univer-sity, a way of introducing him there, on different kinds of images -painting, film, video, etc . He and I would explore this area with the ideaof a book in mind on which we would collaborate . I think that I could ar-range for the University to pay $500 for the three lectures . You alsowanted to explore with us the development of video systems - how to equipan experimental workshop, what are the modules, what kind of equipmentwould need to be built, how would such work be financed, etc . We could dis-cuss this, but any implementation would really be dependent on how our fund-raising activities proceed .

At any rate, I need to know by September 1 so that I can recruit the studentsand find a house for you, etc . by October 1 - or, if you can't come, findanother artist to come .

I took our telephone discussions as tentative soundings, not an absolutelysolid commitment on your part . I don't want to intrude on your European plans .On the other hand, I would rather have you two here than any other people ;we have alot of energy and you would add to it .

If you would like, call me collect at (716) 831-2147, and we'll discuss thesituation . But I do need to know very soon and cannot change the dates asthe film workshop can only be offered in the February-April period .

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What a business letter! But I'm pretty much overwhelmed, exhausted,harassed, etc . at the moment . When I hear from you, I'll write all ofthe interesting news .

Best wishes,

Gerald L .

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MIr . Peter BradleyCherry LaneGuilderland, Nev- York

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Dear Peter

I am enclosing a reference report on a project to which I have appliedto the University Awards Committee in the S(TNY system for support, andI would be most grateful if you would act as a referee to comment on theproject .

I have enclosed a stamped envelope for mailing and would askyou to send it along as soon as possible as the deadline date is November 1.Many thanks for your help.

Dear Woodie,

Done--with great interest, pleasure, enthusiasm and hope . Please let me know

if you are coming to Albany for the big electronics splash at SLT7Y onNovember 20,21 . My wife has met a woman i painting class who is an

expatriate from Prague and has settled in~a11 places,

Guilderland, NYJ and

would like very much to meet you . Her husband, an American, is head of a small

film and video commercial house . Small world .

ANNEX A, ROOM 8 BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14214 TEL.(716)831-4804

Oc,.ober 15, 1974

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FACULTY OF ARTS AND LETTEItz

August 26, 1991

Steina VasulkaRoute 6, Box 100Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

Dear Steina,

FAX 415-441-3674

At last I am able to return your tape to,you, after lendingit, to Doug Hall for a while . Much as I would like to holdonto it for reference, I've had it too long already and youprobably have other uses for it . It, is regrettable that itwas not. possible to obtain the equipment necessary toshowcase your work in the gallery this summer, but it is myhope that, something can be done in the future . (I assume youreceived my FAX of May 22 with the news that the monitors inthe custody of the Museum were unavailable because they wentthe Passages de 1'Image showing at the Wexner Center .)

We jiist closed aMacMurtrie's musicalis exhausted, but itthe media conferencewait . If you have any suggestions or hints for people tolook up or ` good times to be had, I'd love to have them .

Best greetings to Woody, too .

Jeanie WeiffenbachDirector of Exhibitions

wonderful show and performances of Chicorobots that play themselves . Everyonewas worth it . On Saturday I am off toin Osnabruck, and then to Linz . I can't

Al my best, and many thanks again for all that you did tohelp me try to bring something into being here .

Enclosed : Steina : Three InstallationsTheater of Hybrid Automata (Woody Vasulka, withDavid Dunn

MEDIA STUDY INCORPORATED 3325 BAILEY AVENUE, X11 BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14215

march 37 . , 1975

Ms, Steina Vasulka257 Franklin StreetBuffalo, New York 3,21202

Dear Steina,

I wish to thank you for your donation to Media Study of the 3-channelSony mike mixer. It's addition to omr video/sound studios will be of greathelp, '4s you mow, !Medic Study is a tax-free foundation which makes ycurgift tax-deductble.

Sincerely,

?arc ChodorowAssociate Director

November 27, 1984

Mr . Woody VasulkaRoute 6, Box 100Santa Fe, New Mexico

87501

Dear Woody,

This is to confirm arrangements for your presentation as part of the ELECTRONICNARRATIVE symposium to be held at Media Study on December 8 and 9, 1984 .The symposium will run, roughly, from 10AM to IOPM on Saturday, December 8and from l0AM to 4PM on Sunday, December 9, with all events taking placeat our 207 Delaware Avenue facility . As we discussed, Media Study can offeryou a $250 . honorarium for this presentation, as well as cover your travelexpenses and accomodations . I will be in touch with you later this weekto discuss your travel arrangements .

I have scheduled your presentation between l0AM and noon on Saturday, December 8 ;if this is not an adequate block of time, please let me know .

3/4-inch video playback with stereo sound will be available throughout thesymposium, as will an Apple II computer and a slide projector . Please letme know of any other equipment needs as soon as possible .

I greatly appreciate your willingness to participate in the symposium, andI'm looking forward to what should prove to be an exciting weekend .

Best Regards,

Ahn Minkows

207 DELAWARE AVENUE " BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14202 " 716/847-2555)UFF~,

iteinadigital imager

Steina, a month shy of departing Buffalo for ayear's sojourn in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will initiatethe Fall, 1979 Video/Electronic Arts exhibitionseries showcasing her digital video work of the pastyear . It has been produced on a system developedby the Vasulkas with digital design by Jeffy Schier .The system, known as both the "Image Articulator"and "Image Emulsifier," utilizes a high-speed digitalcomputer specifically intended for the manipulationand processing of television images . The image isstored in computer memory as a group of numbers,each number representing a picture element or pixel ;the artist is therefore able to change the image withprecision - via mathematical operations - movingpixels to different locations in the total image, orchanging the color, brightness or other aspectsof the pixels . Steina will elucidate these processes .

a video presentation and discussion

1 dollar admission

uuednefday, .rept-5 8PmSteina, born in Iceland, attended the Music Con-servatory in Prague from 1959-62, and joined theIcelandic Symphony Orchestra in 1964 . She cameto the United States the following year, and hasbeen a seminal force in the development of theelectronic arts since 1970, both as co-founder ofThe Kitchen, a major video exhibition center inNew York City, and as a continuing explorer of thepossibilities for the generation and manipulationof the electronic image through a broad range oftechnological tools and aesthetic concerns . Hertapes have been shown in Paris, Tokyo, Berlin,Bucharest, Sao Paulo, Reykjavik, and throughoutthe United States . She has worked at the NationalCenter for Experiments in Television at KQED inSan Francisco and at the Television Laboratory atWNET in New York as an artist-in-residence . Shewas a Guggenheim Fellow in Video (1976) and hasreceived grants from the New York State Councilon the Arts and the National Endowment for theArts . With Woody Vasulka, she had an exhibit,Machine Vision, at the Albright-Knox Art Galleryin October, 1978. Steina is Adjunct Professor atthe Center for Media Study, State University ofNew York at Buffalo .

207 Delaware AvenueBuffalo, New York 14202716-847-2555

THE VASULKAS

THE VASULKAS

INVITE YOU FOR

INVITE YOU FOR

AN EXHIBIT PREVIEW

AN EXHIBIT PREVIEW

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MEDIA STUDY

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207 DELAWARE AVENUE

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ON

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15

8 :00 P .M .

8 :00 P .M .

IN BUFFALO

IN BUFFALO

MEDIA STUDY IMCORPORATED 3325 BAILEY AVENUE, N1 BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14215

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT :

Friday, January 17, 1975

Barry K . Grant, Assistant Director(716) 035-2Ub0

MEDIA STUDY ANNOUNCES FREE FlIM SERIES

Media Study, at 3325 Bailey Avenue, and the Buffalo and Erie County Public

Library are sponsoring a 25 week series of film screenings . This arrangement

was made possible by an agreement between Marc Chodorow, Associate Director of

Media Study, 14s . Lydia Hoffmann, Director of the Film Department at the Library,

and Mr . Martin Lewin of the Library staff . The series consists of 20 events

featuring 36 filmmakers, including 5 documentary films, 5 feature films, and

the work of ld independent filmmakers representing 6 foreign countries and the

United States .

13 of the filmmakers will be present for discussion and 5

screenings will be followed by talks by film scholars . All screenings will

take place at the downtown Lafayette Square branch of tue Public Library

(entrance on Clinton and Ellicott Streets) at b :UO PM, except for two films

which will be shown on the State University of New York at Buffalo Main Street

Campus, and are co-sponsored by the Center for Media Study, SUNYAB .

The series will bring to downtown Buffalo an excellent selection of both

independent and feature films which have rarely, if ever, been shown in Buffalo,

in an attempt to offer the metropolitan Buffalo community the opportunity to

see examples of the vast array of films made in the non-commercial film world .

Also scneduled is a 3-day seminar on films about prisons and prison life, to

be held March 26- 20 . Legal experts on-prisoner rights and members of the

Attica Defense League will participate in discussions at each of the screenings .

--more--

This series is made possible by grants from the National Endowment for the

Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts .

A schedule of the 20 events

follows :

Wednesday, January 22

Paul Sharits

"Razor Blades"the artist will be present

Wednesday, January 29'

films by Carmen D'Avino and Stan Vanderbeek

Friday, January 31

Peter Gidal

"FilmPrint" and "Room Film"the artist will be present(co-sponsored by the Center for Media Study, SUNYAB,this screening will take place at SUNYAB, Diefendorf 147)

Wednesday, February 5

Jill Godmillow and Judy Collins, "Antonia : Portrait ofa Woman"

Friday, February 7

films of the Dutch Filmmakers' Cooperativethe artists will be present(co-sponsored by the Center for Media Study, SUNYAB,this screening will take place at SUNYAB, Acheson 7U)


Dusan Makavejev

"Innocence Unprotected"the artist will be present

Friday, February 14

Larry Gottheim

"Horizons" and "Barn Rushes"the artist will be present


FuDing Cheng

"Ethero" and "White in Bad Light"

Friday, February 21

Ingmar Bergman

"The Passion"followed by a talk by Dr . Gerald O'Grady


films=by'Ed Emshwiller'

the artist will be present

Wednesday, March 5

films by Claudia Weillthe artist will be present

Wednesday, March 12

Jean-Luc Godard

"Wind from the East"followed by a talk by Brian Henderson

Wednesday, Marcn 19

films by Hollis Framptonthe artist will be present

Wednesday, March 26-

SEMINAR ON FILMS ABOUT PRISONSFriday, March 2b

Wednesday :"Attica," by Cindy Firestonewith representatives of the Attica Defense League

--more--

Wednesday, April 2

films by Jordan Belson

Wednesday, April 9

Frederick Wiseman

"Primate"

Wednesday, April 16

Dziga Vertov

'"an with a Movie Camera"followed by a talk by Seth Feldman

Wednesday., April 23

Tony Conrad

"Articulation of Boolean Algebrafor Film Opticals"

the artist will be present

Wednesday, April 3U

Thursday:"3,000 Years + Life," Randall Conrad"Staggerlee"

Friday:"With Intent to Harm," Steve Ujlacki and Scott Siegler"Release," Lawrence Stell and Suzanne Rostock

Stan Brakhage

"The Text of Light"the artist will be present

Wednesday, May 7

films by Buffalo filmmakers :Tony Bannon, Scott Nygren, Sam Muller, Steve Osbornthe artists will be present

Wednesday, May 14

films by Tom Dewittthe artist will be present

Wednesday, May 21

films of Appalshop, a film workshop from Whitesburg,Kentucky

Wednesday, May 2d

films by Patrick O'Neill and Standish Lawder

Wednesday, June 4

Bruce Baillie

"Quick Billy"followed by a talk by Scott Nygren

Wednesday, June 11

films by Will Hindle

Wednesday, June ld

Alfred Hitchcock

"Strangers on a Train"followed by a talk by Dr . Barry K . Grant

Friday, June 2U

films by New American Filmmakers :Jon Rubin, Anthony McCall, Colen Fitzgibbon, Louis Hock,and James Cagle

Wednesday, June 25

films by Gunvor Nelsonthe artist will be present

MEDIA STUDY VIDEO SERIES

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25

8 :00 P .M .

3323 BAILEY AVENUE

video works by WOODY AND STEINA VASULKA

VASULKA VIDEO WORKS (1974)

works in process of variousexperiments using the Rutt/Etra video synthesizer aswell as other equipment

these collected pieces have beenshown at :

Anthology Film Archives, New York CityL'Image Electronique, Musee d'Art

Contemporain, MontrealExperimental V, Knokke-Heist, Belgium

WOODY VASULKA is a former filmmaker (Film School ofPrague) . STEINA VASULKA is a former violinist(Icelandic Symphony Orchestra) . Together they founded"The Kitchen" in New York City and teach at theOntario College of Art in Toronto . WOODY teachesvideo at S .U .N .Y . at Buffalo . Steina teaches videoat Media Study . They work as a team and togetherhave made over 100 hours of video materials .

THIS IS THE FIRST OF A TWENTY-FIVE WEEK SERIES

supported by the national endowment for the arts andby the new york state council on the arts

S . PROKOFIEFF

APR-706 . FLOWER FEEDBACK

APR-707 . TRIPLE FEEDBACK

SEP-708 . S .E .G . FEEDBAC K

AUG-709 . S .E .G . FEEDBACK, END

AUG-70

VIDEO TAPE COLLECTION OF MEDIA STUDY/BUFFALOTHE VASULKAS : TAPE #3

60 MIN .

1 . STEINA'S FACE, HRABAL'S FACE

SEP-702 . AMOR AZNAR, (STOP/START)

SEP-703 . AMOR AZNAR, (FREEZE FRAME)

SEP-704 . THIERRY'S ZOOM AND DISTORTED FACE, (DECAYS) SEP-705 . SKETCH FROM "TISSUES"

OCT-706 . STEINA SYNTHESIZER

SEP-707 . GIRL WITH BIG BREASTS

NOV-708 . FEEDBACK STILL, NOISE, CAMERA PAN WITH

JOHANNA, SKETCH FOR DECAYS #2

NOV-709 . DECAYS, A-B-C-D-E-F

JAN-71


60 MIN .


60 MIN .

1 . DECAYS #2 NOV 10-702 . END OF DECAYS #1, JOHANNA'S FACE, AMOR

AZNAR, FLAMING ARMS, BLACK FACES DEC 06-703 . THIERRY'S FACE DEC 06-704 . BLACK SUNRISE : SUN, GUGGENHEIM, FLOWS, ROAD WINTER-715 . EYE FEEDBACK JAN 28-716 . THE CITY JAN 28-717 . TITLE; VASULKA 1971 WINTER-71

1 .2 .

DOCUMENTATION OF CONTROL (UNDERSCANNED)DALI LANDSCAPE

SEP/OCT-71OCT-71

3 . SLOPE, LIP'S OCT 30-714 . NOISE SHAPE DEC 18-715 . SHAPES NOV 01-716 . EVOLUTION NOV 11-71

VIDEOSPACE '72 - VISITING TELEVISIONARIES - A PROGRAM SPONSORED BY MEDIA STUDY,VIDEO CONNEXION, THE UUAB VIDEO COMMITTEE - SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF TAPES

In addition, there will be evenings with Media Study's artists in residence- Tom DeWitt, Ed Emshwiller, Peter Campus, Douglas Davis - plus visits ofWoodstock Community Video; Portable Channel, Rochester ; Videofreeks,Rochester; and Glimpse, Syracuse .

September 14 Michael Shamberg Raindance and Top Value TV

September 21 Paul Kaufman National Center for Experimental TelevisionSeptember 28 John Reilly Global VillageOctober-5 Tom Johnson Videoball, Baltimore

October 12 George Stoney Alternate Media Center, New York University

October 19 Woody and SteinaVasulkas Kitchen, New York

October 26 Frank Gillette Video artist and author

November 2 Russ Connor New York State Council on the Arts

November 9 Shirley Clarke Video Artist, Channel 13, New York

November 16 Nam June Paik Video Artist, New York

December 7 Fred Barzyk WGBH, Boston

MEDIA STUDY VIDEO SERIES

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25

S"

8100 P .M .

3323 BAILEY AVENUE

video works by WOODY AND STEINA VASULKA

VASULKA VIDEO WORKS (1974)

works in process of variousexperiments using the Rutt,/Etra video synthesizer aswell as other equipment

these collected pieces have beenshown at :

Anthology Film Archives, New York CityL'Image Electronique, Musee d'Art

Contemporain, MontrealExperimental V, Knokke-Heist, Belgium

WOODY VASULKA is a former filmmaker (Film School ofPrague) . STEINA VASULKA is a former violinist(Icelandic Symphony Orchestra) . Together they founded"The Kitchen" in New York City and teach at theOntario College of Art in Toronto . WOODY teachesvideo at S .U .N .Y . at Buffalo . Steina teaches videoat Media Study . They work as a team and togetherhave made over 100 hours of video materials .

THIS IS THE FIRST OF A TWENTY-FIVE WEEK SERIES

supported by the national endowment for the arts andby the new York state council on the arts

State University of New York99 Washington AvenueAlbany, New York

12246

Office of the Vice Chancellorfor Educational Services

August 19,

1977

Steina Vasulka257 Franklin StreetBuffalo, New York 14202

Dear Steina,

Thanks so much for Working Papers and the photo . Yourtopics for campus visits sound terrific, and I think we canexplain the ideas to sponsors from what you've written forus . I'm having copies of your pictures made and will re-turn the original as soon as possible .

PKR :npbEncl .

The poster is enclosed - hope you like it!

With affection,

Patricia Ke~r RossDirector, University-wide

Programs in the Arts

OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCHState University of New York at Buffalo

For Immediate Attention - Deadline Date

October 7, 1974

UNIVERSITY AWARD COMMITTEE SUM14ER FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS-IN-AID

The major thrust of this program which is sponsored by the State University ofNew York/Research Foundation, has been altered this year to facilitate seed projectsSUBMITTED MAINLY BY YOUNG SCHOLARS . Special consideration, however, will be givento scholars (including full professors) who are initiating research late in theircareers, or in an inter-disciplinary direction, or in a new discipline, or in a newdirection in their present disciplines . This restriction applies only to the FacultyFellowships ; eligibility for Grants-in-Aid is still open to all .

For review purposes, all awards are classified under the following :

Social Sciences ;Humanities ; Natural Sciences ; and Arts (creative and historical/critical) .

An applicant may submit only one proposal selected from among the following programs :

Program 1 Faculty Research Fellowship - a $1,800 stipend for a two-month time blockduring the summer intervals or at such other time as no income from any other source is

to be received .

Program 2 Grant-in-Aid - from $100 to $1,600 for items budgeted in detail andexpendable over a two-year period .

Program 3 Faculty Research Fellowship ($1,800) and Grant-in-Aid (from $100 to $1,600Total sum not to exceed $3,400 .

Applicants are limited to three UAC awards or $ 4,000 in any five year period . Facult.members who have received two grants in the years 1970, 1971, 197-2 and 1973 ay applyonly for the difference between $4,000 and the total received . Mrs . Stout (x 4722) isprepared to answer questions regarding individual eligibility or provide additionalinformation concerning these programs .

Application forms should be obtainable from Mrs . Stout on or about September 1 .THE DEADLINE DATE FOR RECEIPT OF COMPLETED APPLICATIONS IN HER OFFICE IS OCTOBER 7, 1974


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g=reetings and facsimilations,

oct-80

I trust all has and is going generally well . out there . I thought youmight be interested in this 3d-plot I sent you . To me, it resembles the videomodulation of the vertical channel of the Rutt-Etra (Woody's "Home" tape, Ithink) . It was produced on the Cyber/Calcomp plotter that we video-taped . Theinformation that produced the Y-axis modulation came from a picture file ofportrait of Marilyn Monroe . A straight linear modulation resulted in a greatdeal of detail 'noise', making the result less recognizable as a face . By ex-ponentiating the values of the pixels, the low-brightness detail becameinvisible and the highlights stuck-out more, making for the mountain rangeson the barren plane effect . Her forehead is in the foreground . Notice the jobcost of the plot ; Jay Leavitt has effectively priced me out of the plotbusiness .

I am up to my usual hysteria, trying to mop-up the last of the courses .Doing work with Computer Science, Physics, Music, Psychology, and the usualCMS charity gig . I hope to make up my mind as to what I want to do next by May ;The commercial computer animation houses look very suculent . Who knows, I mightburn out in Los Angeles for a while .

Speaking of burning out ; I suppose by this time you might have heard thatVictor got a job with Grinnell . He's going to be moXon's soft-head . So themighty Ukranian is dropping out of the University and Naomi's lab in favorof the industrial bucks . It makes me all the more anxious to finish up andsplit . All the young men are in such a hurry . By the way, Aubery is going toStanford gratas Bell Labs .

Frampton is of course, running the Digital Arts Lab again . I plottedhim a poster advertising the course which attracted about a dozen people ofincredibly divergent persuasions . Most of them sit very patiently everyTuesday and Thursday afternoon, listening to the Professor talk of LDAX's,STAX's and the simian paradoxes of Zeno .

So naturally, this isn't a purely social call, You could do me agreat honor by bestowing the enclosed change of grade form with your signature .This incomplete was for the summer of 78 . The work I performed was the documen-tation of the Scheir/MacArthur System . I had thought Steina cleared this up atthe end of the following fall semester . But my transcripts indicate that thatit remains incomplete . I feel I am entitled to the grade . However, if you wouldlike to contest this, please feel free . I would ask your for your prompt atten-tion in that I would like to to be finished up by January .

A>

Best fortunes,Coggs

ROOM 310 HOCHSTETTER HALL/BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14214 TE1. .(716)831-2426

StateUniversity ofNewYork at Buffalo

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST

April 8, 1977

Professor Bohuslav VasulkaCenter for Media StudyWende HallSouth Campus

Dear Professor Vasulka :

The Arts and Letters Institutional Funds Committeehas reviewed your application, and we are pleasedto announce that we have forwarded it to theUniversity-Wide Committee with the recommendationthat it be funded .

The University-Wide Committee for Special Fundswill meet on May 3 and should announce its decisionon May 20 .

I should caution you that the amount of funds isagain quite limited, and the number of applicationsquite high . We will do everything we can to ensurefunding for your proposal .

Sincerely,

yvwP-

Alan BirnholzChairman

/sma

CLEMENS HALL BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14260 TEL . (716)636-2711,2713

FACULTY OF ARTS AND LETTERS

January 26, 1998

Woody VasulkaRt 6 Box 100

Santa Fe, NM 87501

Woody,

Thank you for allowing us to use your work in our exhibition Landscape: Mediated Views.Enclosed you will find your honorarium check . The exhibition opens January 30 and continuesthrough March 20. A small catalogue will be printed and copies will be forwarded to you soon.Your tape will be returned in a separate package within a week .

Robert Doyle, CoordinatorThe Media Center @

Visual Studies Workshop31 Prince Street

Rochester, New York 14607

Voice 716-442-8676FAX 716-442-1992

rdoyle@acs .brockport .edu

The Media Center at Visual Studies Workshop is funded in part byThe New York State Council on the Arts, Workshop Tuitions, Access Fees and Private Donations .

John Minkowski, "Design/Electronic Arts"

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