Central New York Legacies: ETC, Cornell, And The Region
The Experimental Television Center partnered with the universities, museums, and art centers of Central New York to provide pivotal support to emergent artists in the 1970s and 1980s for the exhibition, cultural outreach, and documentation of the first generation of media artists. Undervalued in this history is the very early partnership with ETC of the A.D. White Museum and then the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, as well as ETC’s collaborations with Binghamton University, Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, Cortland Arts Council, and independent art centers in Rochester and Buffalo. Letters from Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, and Gary Hill attest to the impact of Central New York support for these young artists who would develop into the leading international voices in video art and installation.
Interviews with artists at the conference “Video History: Making Connections,” held at Syracuse University in 1998, organized by Kathy High.
This conference brought together more than 250 people from around the US, with an emphasis on connecting early-generation video artists with younger media artists coming up in the 1990s. Experimental Television Center Collection.
Meryl Blackman, Peer Bode, and company. Movements for Video, Dance, and Music, poster for event at the Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 1976. Experimental Television Center Collection.
Meryl Blackman, Peer Bode, and company. Movements for Video, Dance, and Music, program for event at the Johnson Museum, Cornell University, 1976. Experimental Television Center Collection.
Maureen Turim. The Electronic Gallery, catalogue, SUNY-Binghamton Media Department and Experimental Television Center, 1980. Experimental Television Center Collection.
Maureen Turim. The Electronic Gallery, catalogue, University Art Gallery SUNY –Binghamton, USA, 1983. Experimental Television Center Collection.
Video as Art, guide and calendar for exhibit at Cortland Arts Council Gallery, Cortland, NY, 1987.
Illustrates the regional importance of artists who worked at the ETC, all of whom have work in Goldsen collections. 2 copies. Experimental Television Center Collection.
Alan Sondheim Video Archive, hard drive, 2011.
Full collection of artist’s works, many produced at ETC.Gift of the artist.
![Two letters to Ralph Hocking and Walter [Wright]](https://exhibits.library.cornell.edu/images/13898-2867217f7b125b6f9d4b70e6f5c10cb7/full/!400,400/0/default.jpg)
Bill Viola. Two letters to Ralph Hocking and Walter [Wright], 1974-1975. Experimental Television Center Collection.
Bill Viola. Amazing Colossal Man Video Piece, photocopy, 1974. Experimental Television Center Collection.
Mary Ross, USA, 1950-2012. Cibachrome photographs.
Lois, 1983. Dance Tapestry, 1979. Swedish Group, 1977-78. Self-Portrait, 1979. Eric Portrait, 1979. Cardinal's Dilemma, Nos. 1, 5, 8, 1977.