Archiving the New Media Art of the 70's
Presentation by Jon Cates
Assistant Professor, Film, Video & New Media dept
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Friday, Jan 23rd, 9am - 4pm
Columbia College's Ferguson Hall, 600 S Michigan Ave.
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During the late 1960's and early 1970's, artists, such as Phil Morton and Dan Sandin, collaborated on realtime audio video projects that anticipated current New Media Art theorypractices as well as Open Source software and Free Culture.
Morton became known and recognized for his use of the Sandin Image Processor, an analog computer optimized for video processing. Morton developed anti-copyright approaches to his own and his collaborative works on the Sandin Image Processor.
jonCates develops the curriculum for and teaches in the New Media path of study of the Film, Video & New Media Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As an artist, jonCates creates Art Games, Open Source Artware, Computer Witchcraft and Majikal Media Art. Working as an academic, jonCates researches and writes on Media Art Histories and New Media Arts.
In 2007, jonCates initiated the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive to archive and freely distribute the Media Art work of Phil Morton and associated research. The Archive contains over 500 physical video tapes by Morton and his collabortaors from the early 1970's into the 1980's. The Archive consists of videotapes (mostly 3/4 inch format as well as open reel and VHS), additional tapes from the 1990's and associated paper files, notes, documentation and photos.
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