1965 |
TV |
The television broadcasting industry in the U.S. consists of three national commercial networks, plus one non-commercial television channel. |
Vid |
The consumer videotape recorder (VTR) is introduced - starting a video revolution that leads to an explosion of do-it-yourself TV. |
Art |
The Galeria Bonino, New York City, presents Electronic Art, an exhibition by Nam June Paik that includes his first video sculptures. |
Art |
Video is included in the Third Annual Avant-garde Festival in NYC; with cellist and frequent Paik collaborator, Charlotte Moorman, as director. |
1966 |
$ |
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the New York State
Council on the Arts begin to support artists' video productions. Before long other state arts councils, Public TV stations, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and private philanthropies join to bring substantial funding to the field. Private corporations, educational institutions, and cultural centers start to commission video works from artists.
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1967 |
Vid, TV |
Portable black & white (B&W) video cameras are marketed in the U.S. for the first time, just as the commercial television industry ends B&W TV transmission. |
Art, TV |
The Experimental TV Center opens at KQED, a non-commercial television station in San Francisco, California. |
1968 |
Art,TV |
The Medium is the Medium, a TV show produced by the
Public Broadcasting Laboratory at WGBH-TV, Boston,
highlights new developments in the medium. |
Art |
The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, a
seminal exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),
New York, includes video. |
Com |
The first independent video production groups, including Commediation and The Electric Eye, Videofreex, Raindance Corporation, Global Village, Ant Farm, TVTV, and others begin to form in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Washington, DC, New Orleans, Johnson City, TN, and Lanesville, NY.
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1969 |
Art |
The Howard Wise Gallery in New York presents TV as
a Creative Medium, a group show of video art.
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1970 |
Vid |
Development of first color portable reel-to-reel video tape
recorder is announced. |
Art |
Vision and Television, a major exhibition of video art, is presented at the Rose Art Museum, Boston, MA; Russell Connor, curator.
|
Art |
Electronic Arts Intermix, New York - a non-profit distributor of video art; founded by Howard Wise. |
Com |
Radical Software - a journal produced by Raindance Corporation. Publishes 11 issues until 1974. |
Com |
Alternate Media Conference -- several thousand media activists gather for a weekend in Vermont to network and strengthen community ties.
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1971 |
Art |
Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA in NYC and the
Everson Museum (Syracuse, NY) present video programs and exhibits, followed by the Guggenheim Museum (NYC), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), University Art Museum (Berkeley, CA), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston) and many others.
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1972 |
TV |
Pong - the first video game created. |
TV |
The TV Lab is inaugurated at New York's public TV station, WNET/13. A broadcast TV production and post-production studio for video artists, it remains active through 1984. David Loxton, Director.
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1974 |
Com |
A handful of film and video makers found the Association of
Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF). |
Art |
MoMA's Projects: Video exhibition series - begins; Barbara London, curator.
|
1975 |
Art, Vid |
Whitney Museum of American Art presents Projected Video, the first museum exhibition using the newly developed Advent Video Projector - John Hanhardt, curator. |
Art |
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, starts a collection of video art.
|
Vid |
The consumer video cassette recorder (VCR) is introduced in
the U.S. |
TV |
The first personal computer (PC) - the Altair 8800 - goes on
sale in the U.S. market.
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1976 |
Art, $ |
The Whitney Museum receives funding from the Rockefeller
Foundation for the New American Film and Video Series, the Museum's first regular video program. |
Art |
The Video Data Bank (VDB), at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago is founded by artist Phil Morton and curators Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield. Today, VDB remains a leading distributor of artists' video.
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1980 |
Vid |
1.1% of U.S. households have a VCR. |
Art |
Wendy Clarke's Love Tapes - a month long interactive video installation - is recorded and exhibited in the lobby of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, NYC.
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1981 |
TV |
MTV is inaugurated and begins by airing the music video, Video
Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles. |
Com |
AIVF's membership reaches 500.
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1982 |
Art |
Nam June Paik - the first major U.S. retrospective of this leading
artist's work takes place at the Whitney Museum of American Art; John Hanhardt, curator.
|
1984 |
Vid |
The first color video camcorders - VHS format - go on sale.
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1985 |
Vid |
30% of U.S. households have a VCR.
|
1986 |
Com/Vid |
Videomaker, a magazine for camcorder enthusiasts begins
publication; Matthew York, publisher.
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1989 |
Com |
AIVF membership reaches 5000. |
TV, Art |
THE 90's, a national, independently-produced camcorder TV series, begins broadcasting on PBS, with Tom
Weinberg as executive producer. The series continues through
1992, airing a total of 52 programs.
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1990 |
Vid |
65% U.S. households have a VCR.
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1991 |
$ |
NEA funding for film/video production grants reaches a high
of $1.4 million to individuals and organizations.
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1995 |
Vid |
Digital video camcorders go on sale in the U.S.
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1997 |
TV |
DVD (Digital Video Disc later changed to Digital Versatile Disc)
debuts in the U.S. (play only).
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2000 |
Vid |
Digital TV's are for sale.
|
2003 |
Vid |
Tapeless and high definition (HD) camcorders go on sale. |
$ |
NEA grants $945,000 for film/video production to 28 artists' productions.
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2004 |
TV |
256 channels available on satellite TV. |
Art |
MoMA video collection has more than 1000 titles. |
Vid,TV |
U.S. households with: VCRs 92%; DVDs 38%; PCs 70%; 80% of
households w/school kids have video game systems.
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