Experimental Television Center

Artists in Residence Program

Deadline: July 15, 2010

The Experimental Television Center next deadline for the Residency Program is July 15, 2010, for residencies between September 2010 and January 2011.

The Residency supports contemporary electronic media art projects. The studio workshop environment offers access to an image processing system, intensive individualized instruction and time for exploration and personal creative growth. Participating artists have complete aesthetic and technical control over all aspects of the making process.

Please email the following to etc@experimentaltvcenter.org

1. A brief project description
2. A current bio or resume
3. A prioritized set of dates between September 1, 2010 and January 31, 2011.

First-time applications are asked to send a sample of completed work with SASE or URLs if your work is available online.

Please visit http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org for more information.

Swiss artist Alexander Hahn presents a live narrated screening of his interactive video, Luminous Point! Luminous Point is an interactive video about memory. Memory both human and artificial. Navigating per remote control, the viewers explore a digital recreation of the artist’s Lower East Side tenement apartment—a virtual wunderkammer and archive in which distant places and different times, personal biography and cultural history, fact and fiction all coexist just like in the mental space of memory. Alex has worked at ETC and been awarded Finishing Funds grants, as well as Individual Artists Awards from the NYS Council on the Arts. Take a look at a guided tour of the work at http://vimeo.com/903246

Le Petit Versailles Garden,

346 E Houston St.
Garden opens @ 7pm.

“Waiting for Google” is artist Brian Kane’s magical, game-changing creation, which celebrates waiting and uncertainty in today’s force-quit world. Brian has been an artist in residence at ETC. http://blog.slashboing.com/bk/2010/04/28/waiting-for-google/

The Center is pleased to host the residency of Montreal-based media artist Katherine Liberovskaya (http://www.liberovskaya.net/) and new music performer and producer Al Margolis (http://www.soniccuriosity.com/sc113.htm). In addition to Liberovskaya’s art practice in single-channel and installation work she has concurrently been involved in the programming and organization of diverse media art events, notably with Studio XX in Montreal (programming coordinator 1996-1998, president 2001, Espace Vidéographe, Montreal, as well as Experimental Intermedia, NY and the OptoSonic Tea series at Diapason in NYC. Al Margolis has been an activist in the 1980s American cassette underground through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music, and co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions. He is label manager for Deep Listening, XI Records, and Mutable Music. He has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione and many others.

Nick Hallett and  Shana Moulton present an original one-act opera titled Whispering Pines 10 at The Kitchen on April 16 and 17.

The work tells the ever-evolving story of Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac whose constant search for health and happiness leads her towards fad cures and new age kitsch, creating situations in turn comic, contemplative, and surreal.  The mundane objects in Cynthia’s world act as portals into her own overactive subconscious, wherein hallucinatory sequences explore the nature of material and spiritual concerns in contemporary culture.

For this latest installment, video and performance artist Shana Moulton collaborates with composer-vocalist Nick Hallett to transform the work into an electronic chamber opera, woven out of pop melodies, extended vocal techniques, alternative sound controllers, and a flexible instrumentation performed by Hallett along with the soprano Daisy Press and harpist Shelley Burgon.  Moulton stars as Cynthia, enveloped in her original multi-channel video design, which tackles the divide between low and high production values through the use of green-screen compositing and interactive technology.

Whispering Pines 10 was made possible with support from the Harvestworks Artist In Residence Program and with Experimental Television Center Finishing Funds, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.  The Kitchen’s presentation of Whispering Pines 10 was made possible with the support of the Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

For further information http://www.thekitchen.org/event/197/0/1/

The next deadline for the Experimental TV Center’s Media Arts Technical Assistance program is April 1, 2010.

The TA fund assists media arts organizations in working with outside consultants on issues of organizational and professional development.

Guidelines and application are available online at http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org

The TA Program is supported by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts.

Zoe Beloff Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society

Finishing Funds 2010 deadline is March 15, 2010. For guidelines and application visit us online. http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org

Magic Box 2009 by Ruth Sergel

Finishing Funds 2010 deadline is coming up in one week!

Visit http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org under Grants for guidlines and application.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is auctioning off audio equipment, display cases and other items online. For more info visit

http://www.rasmus.com/auction_detail.php?ID=402010

Finishing Funds 2010

Postmark Deadline:  March 15, 2010

For application and guidelines: http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org

See Grants>Finishing Funds

FINISHING FUNDS provides media and new media artists with grants up to $2,500 to help with the completion of diverse and innovative moving-image and sonic art projects, and works for the Web and new technologies. Eligible forms include film and video as single or multiple channel presentation, computer based moving-imagery and sound works, installations and performances, interactive works and works for new technologies, DVD, multimedia and the Web. We also support new media, and interactive performance. Work must be surprising, creative and approach the various media as art forms; all genres are eligible, including experimental, narrative and documentary art works. Individual artists can apply directly to the program and do not need a sponsoring organization. Applicants must be residents of New York State; undergraduate students are not eligible.  The application requires a project description, resume and support materials, including a sample of the proposed project. Selection is made by a peer review panel. About $25,000 is awarded each year. Announcement is made in early June.

The program is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, and by mediaThe foundation.