<div dir="ltr">Tim, thanks as well for the introduction, and for inviting me to be part of the dialog for Video: Behind and Beyond in conjunction with the ETC Exhibition at HCAG. I've been lurking and enjoying the conversations, works and texts that have been shared. Maureen, I wish you an easy fast and look forward to learning from you.<div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, just as Week 3 is upon us I've come down with a cold, so I'm minimizing my computer time to rest up for tomorrow's ETC opening. For now, I'd like to speak personally about what Experimental Television Center means to me. </div><div><br></div><div>My art wouldn't exist without Experimental Television Center. It is only with ETC's resources and support and nurturing of an entire history of media art that I and my collaborators were inspired and enabled to make our visual performances and other media artworks. I certainly wasn't being taught anything like realtime collaborative audiovisual performance media art at NYU UGF/TV (though my professor Reynold Weidenaar urged me to apply to ETC) and the art world at the time primarily was concerned with works derived from, and analyzing, pre-recorded TV and film.</div><div><br></div><div>The ETC tape library was a huge part of my media art education. In every residency, me and my cohorts would pull down a handful of tapes to watch each night. These tapes could be unedited recordings of test sessions - like the 3/4" tape of Steina and Woody Vasulka testing an Analog-to-Digital capture device (Maybe with Jeffrey Schier?? This is pulled from my feverish memory, so I may not have the details exactly right! Sherry, Tim, Renate, is this Tape #001?). Others were edited screening masters (I learned only last year from Matthew Schlanger that he would re-edit every screening tape from the original studio recordings to yield the very highest possible quality!). A few others confirmed my dreams about making moving pictures as collaborative real-time audiovisual performance (for example: The Lubies - Hank C. Linhart and Joshua Fried).</div><div><br></div><div>In the early days of my art career, it felt like it was only Experimental Television Center, and a few hardcore afficionados who came to every event, who were dedicated to this entire way of art-making. Of course, Hank and Dave, Ralph and Sherry were very open-minded about all art practices and theories... but I'm so grateful for their dedication to audiovisual synthesis, image processing and audiovisual performance.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm so glad the ETC tape library has found a good home at Rose Goldsen. </div><div><br></div><div>Ok! I'm signing off the computer to rest up for tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing many of you at Hunter College Art Galleries, and to the ongoing conversation on empyre.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers, Benton</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Benton C Bainbridge</div><div>+1.646.338.9172<br><a href="http://bentoncbainbridge.com" target="_blank">bentoncbainbridge.com</a><br><a href="mailto:bentoncbainbridge@gmail.com" target="_blank">bentoncbainbridge@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Turim,Maureen Cheryn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mturim@ufl.edu" target="_blank">mturim@ufl.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
Thanks for the kind words, Tim! I look forward to joining this conversation tomorrow evening, following Yom Kippur.<br>
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> On Sep 22, 2015, at 7:00 PM, Timothy Conway Murray <<a href="mailto:tcm1@cornell.edu">tcm1@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Renate and I want to thank Lynn Sachs and Alan Sondheim for stimulating a<br>
> provocative discussion of the toggles between analogue and digital. Their<br>
> own work has been at the forefront of conceptual and narrative<br>
> experimentations with mixed medial formats, and we're appreciative of<br>
> their very thoughtful reflections on their work and processes.<br>
><br>
> On Thursday we will celebrate the opening of the ETC show at Hunter<br>
> College in New York City, compromised of ETC tapes and ephemera held in<br>
> the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. If you can brave the gridlock<br>
> caused by the Pope and his politician buddies from the UN, we hope to see<br>
> you down in the artsy quiet of Tribeca on Thursday night.<br>
><br>
> This week were are happy to feature two artists who have been prominent<br>
> over the years of ETC, Peer Bode and Benton C Bainbridge, as well as<br>
> Deborah Bernagozzi and Jason Bernagozzi who have picked up the ETC<br>
> tradition through their residency program, also in tiny Owego, New York,<br>
> Signal Culture. Jason worked with Dave Jones to design a emulated Paik<br>
> 'wobbulator' that will be on display in the Hunter College show (which<br>
> runs through November). Also joining us is one of the preeminent<br>
> theoreticians of video art and cinema, Maureen Turim from the University<br>
> of Florida. It was Maureen, during her years as a film professor at SUNY<br>
> Binghamton, who first took me over to Owego for a screening at ETC in the<br>
> waning months of the 1970s where I was stunned by the creative<br>
> abstractions pulsating before my wide eyes. So it's with particular<br>
> pleasure that we welcome Maureen to -empyre- within the broader interface<br>
> that is ETC Today.<br>
><br>
><br>
> BENTON C BAINBRIDGE (US) is a media artist based in the Bronx. Working<br>
> with custom systems of his own design,<br>
> Bainbridge creates immersive environments, interactive installations and<br>
> digital time-based artworks. He is best known for his visual performance<br>
> projects, both solo and in collaboration with a wide range of artists,<br>
> from pop musicians to underground legends. Bainbridge's commitment to<br>
> real-time<br>
> processes was nurtured through numerous residencies, and with the support<br>
> of, Experimental Television Center. Career highlights include video art<br>
> and VJ'ing<br>
> for two Beastie Boys world tours, analog video synthesizer FX for TV On<br>
> The Radio's "Staring at the Sun" music video, and Whitney Museum's<br>
> best-attended live event with video ensemble The Poool. Bainbridge's work<br>
> is being presented in THE EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER: A HISTORY,<br>
> ETC . . . AN EXHIBITION AT HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERY. Examples of<br>
> Bainbridge's live video collaborations will be exhibited in the HCAG.<br>
> Benton will also conduct a video synthesis workshop for ETC, then perform<br>
> audiovisuals in collaboration with PhillipStearns.<br>
> Artistwebsite: <a href="http://bentoncbainbridge.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bentoncbainbridge.com</a><br>
> Wikipedia article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_C_Bainbridge" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_C_Bainbridge</a><br>
><br>
> Debora Bernagozzi is a video artist and photographer. She received her BFA<br>
> in Video from the Atlanta College of Art in 1999 and her MFA in Electronic<br>
> Integrated Art from Alfred University in 2002. Her work has been exhibited<br>
> in the US and internationally. She participated in repeated residencies at<br>
> the Experimental Television Center and was awarded a Regional Artist<br>
> Access Residency from Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center. Bernagozzi and her<br>
> husband were honored to be artists in residence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br>
> in January 2012, co-sponsored by the Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and<br>
> Video Festival and Multimedia University. She is Co-Founder and Executive<br>
> Director of Signal Culture, an experimental media arts organization that<br>
> offers residencies, resources, and exhibition opportunities.<br>
><br>
> Jason Bernagozzi is a video, sound and new media artist living and working<br>
> in upstate New York and is the co-founder of the experimental media arts<br>
> non-profit Signal Culture. His work has been featured nationally and<br>
> internationally at venues such as the 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH exhibition<br>
> "Enhanced Vision - Digital Video", the European Media Arts Festival in<br>
> Osnabruk, Germany, the LOOP Video Art Festival in Barcelona, Spain, the<br>
> Beyond/In Western NY Biennial in Buffalo, NY, and the Yan Gerber<br>
> International Arts Festival in Hebei Province, China. His work has<br>
> received several awards including grants from the New York State Council<br>
> for the Arts, free103point9 and the ARTS Council for the Southern Finger<br>
> Lakes. He is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Animation at Alfred<br>
> State College.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.seeinginvideo.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.seeinginvideo.com</a> <<a href="http://www.seeinginvideo.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.seeinginvideo.com/</a>><br>
> <a href="http://www.signalculture.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.signalculture.org</a> <<a href="http://www.signalculture.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.signalculture.org/</a>><br>
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> MAUREEN TURIM (US) is professor of Film and Media Studies in the<br>
> Department of English at the University of Florida has published three<br>
> books, The Films of Oshima Nagisa. Images of a Japanese Iconoclast,<br>
> Berkeley: University of California Press 1998; Flashbacks in Film: Memory<br>
> and History, New York: Routledge, 1989; andAbstraction in Avant-Garde<br>
> Films, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press 1985 She is currently finishing<br>
> Desire and its Renewal in<br>
> the Cinema. She has published over 100 essays in journals and books on<br>
> theoretical, historical and aesthetic issues in cinema and video, art,<br>
> cultural studies, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, and comparative<br>
> literature.<br>
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> Timothy Murray<br>
> Professor of Comparative Literature and English<br>
> Taylor Family Director, Society for the Humanities<br>
> <a href="http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/</a><br>
> Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art<br>
> <a href="http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu</a><br>
> A D White House<br>
> Cornell University,<br>
> Ithaca, New York 14853<br>
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>> On 9/21/15 8:22 PM, "kristin lucas" <<a href="mailto:kristinlucas@gmail.com">kristinlucas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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