'8y ar,,d eleclrcnic ts and programs nentrat i var;etv Center activities . , or film su_y, the~ ;, presen_ . one Department of Programs concentrating primarily on photography as a inerna WniversitY Center at Binghamton), one Program in. means of artistic expression have been developed at Uni- iy (University Center at 8010), and three versity Centers at Albany, Buffalo and Stony Brook, in Film Study (University Center at Albany, and University Colleges at New Palo, Oswego and Potsdam and iversity Colleges at Cortland and Purchase) with a fourth College of Ceramics at Alfred University, in addition Film Program in the preparatory stages at University graduate, Program in Photographic Studies, also at Uni- College at Brockport Among the two-year colleges, versity Center at Buffalo, which is offered through the Community College of the !=leaner fakes has offered a Visual Studies Abrksl7op in Rochester. Studies (although this program Concentration in Cinema Electronic music is the least developed, in terms of discontinued, and Whawk Valley has recently been academic curricula, of the arts under consideration. There an AA degree-granting Community College is considering is, however, a formal Program at University Center at Cinematography . option in Photography and Albany and an informal program offering no major but a Although there are no departments or programs concentration for graduate students at University Center at dedicated to video, Center for Media Study at University Stony Brook.

university Center a inghamton Now in its sixth year, the Department began as a cinema course taught by Professor Larry Gottheim, now Chairman, Department is described the philosophy of the Cinema through the English Department in 1968. The film cur- in the following way: riculum expanded to a "program" of two faculty in 1969 The Department of Cinema is devoted to the and gained full status of an undergraduate Department development of artists and creative thinkers in offering a B.A, degree in 1970. It has since grown to the cinema . It aims at a unified sense of cinema, extent of having six full-time faculty and one visiting providing a basis for new insights and works. Specific professor offering sixteen courses each year in film to more than 5% of analysis and production, including those of production, film analysis and paracinema video, are taught, but not as ends in themselves. The thirty majors and about six hundred total students . major program aims to produce not narrow specialists in lighting, cinematography, or film editing, but The most important recent developments in the Cinema rather broadly trained artists and thinkers sensitive to Department are plans for an M.A. degree and the expansion a whole range of cinematic values . of activities to include video. Ralph Hocking, a faculty member, offers two courses each year in video as an art, major in cinema bring together the Students who utilizing the extensive facilities of the Experimental Tele- have learned and, the values to which techniques they vision Center, where he is Director . (Further information made sensitive, in a senior thesis they have been about the Experimental Television Center, a not-for-profit work or a which consists of an independent film educational corporation separate and distinct from the creative insight and writing about film, demonstrating State university of blew York system, accompanies the ability . Academic Courses in Video chart) Students have con- The Department encourages studies in the theories structed majors in video art through the Innovational and techniques of other art disciplines such as music, Projects Board; they may also receive credit for in- painting, theater, acrd literature. dependent work in still photography .

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Other faculty are Ken Jacobs, Daniel Barnett and Saul L"W degrees to "Special Majors" and a dozen master of Arts it Humanities degrees each year, as well as directing filry Facilities include 8 and 16mm production and dissertations by PhD. candidates in the English projection equipment with synchronizers, and Frenct horizontal and Departments . Over four hundred vertical editing machines,, magnasyne independent, docu and interlock pro- mentary and feature narrative films jectors and processing and one hundred any equipment for black-and-white film. fifty experimental videotapes There is also are screened in the Program'; limited 35mm production equipment. Video courses each year, facilities at the Experimental Television Center include black-and-white and color cameras, 1/2-inch and 1-inch Facilities in film include super-8 and 16mm production decks, video projection, keyers, special effects generators, a and projection equipment, full 16mm editing facilities, an colorizer, a synthesizer and a spatial and intensity digitizer; optical printer, and sophisticated 16mm sound-sync much of this equipment is owned by the Center, some is on equipment, including synchronizer, double system interlock loan from the University . projector and a recorder reproducer for 16mm edge track. Center for Media Study also The Department screens has the use of the permanent hundreds of primarily art and 35mm projection feature-length facilities at University Center at Buffalo. narrative films each year, the Department's Video $2000 facilities in the Centers Experimental video rental budget supplemented by the more than Laboratory include black-and-white cameras, 1/2-inch seventy-five films in the SUNY/Binghamton Film Archives and 3/4-inch color editing decks, special effects and the screenings of the Harpur Film generator/ Society, an extra- switcher, colorizer, synthesizer, academic organization . color video projector and sophisticated electronic and test equipment. Along with arrangements for regular visiting professors, Seeing itself as a catalyst, heaping to the Cinema Department also define and advance sponsors one-day to one- the new field of Media Study, month programs with the Center for Media Study several dozen visiting film and video has been active in artists each year sponsoring or co-sponsoring five con- . The Department hosted the first Uni- secutive Summer Institutes in the Making and Under- versity-wide conference on Cinema in 1972. Professor standing of Film/Media, numerous regional, national and Gottheim reports that most of the interaction of the international conferences (on Teaching resources in Film Cinema Department with other departments in the Uni- and Media, Autobiography in the Independent American versity occurs at an informal level, with students taking a Cinema, Teaching lylakin~, Women in "'Inn and "ideo, variety of other courses and faculty giving lectures in other departments. The planned M.A. Program calls for greater interrelationships of this type . The Cinema Department lists an increase in faculty/personnel as its most basic need at present.

University Center at f The Center for Adedia 'ti -ut ently offers courses in film and is video making and . iri-etation, in its develop- ment of "three areas of wear work which will lead to undergraduate and graduate degrees~ 1) the making of films, videotapes and other media ; 2) the history, theory and analysis of media forms; 3) the psychic and social effects of media." Gerald OGrady, the Program's Director since its inception in 1972, defines the Center's philosophy in the following way: "Media mean all of the symbolic codes of human culture, and their study involves all of the ways in which they interact with and influence each other in constructing human consciousness. The informing insight of the Program is that all citizens should have an under- standing of and access to all of the codes of expression, communication and information-transfer of the culture in which they live.''

The other fuH-ti clultY-Hollis Frampton, Paul Sharits, Bohus. Brian Henderson and James Blue-and one ti about twelve under- graduate and S ., :te courses in filmmaking, history and analysis ani - __)urses in videomaking and theories of electronic med each year to over three hundred undergradua bout sixty-five graduate students . The Program is open to double majors, joint majors and a variety of ad-hoc majors with departments concentrating on other S ina Vasuika, Center for r , ia Study, codes, and awards approximately ten undergraduate E uffaio .

Electronic Arts), over fifty visiting lecturers on film and the Alsen (English), Gordon Beadle (History), Henry Steck electronic arts yearly and series of recent Chinese, Polish, (Political Science) and, in the past, Marc Lowenstein Soviet and Egyptian films. As part of a major research (Philosophy) . project of the Center, the Oral History of the Independent Although there are very few majors as yet, the eight to American Film, more than five hundred hours of interviews ten courses offered in the Cinema Studies Program each with fifty independent filmmakers have been recorded year attracts an enrollment of about five hundred students. which, along with an expanding collection of films, Seventy-five to one hundred films, predominantly English experimental videotapes and printed materials, comprise and Foreign Language feature length narratives, are the Center's research resources. screened each year . Center for Media Study has submitted a "Letter of Present Program activities include the attempt to form a Intent" to offer A.S ., M.A., M .F .A. and PhD . degrees . As Student Cinema Studies Club to sponsor visiting lecturers, part of its function as a dynamic and integrative agent and strengthening of support of the participating depart- "which would interact with many other departments and ments. Although initial objections to equipment costs in units in the University and the community," the Program forming a film program were overcome by formulating a has plans to make joint appointments with other faculties non-production interdepartmental appreciation and analysis and to develop curricula with the Department of In- major, Professor Hammond and other faculty feel they struction in the School of Education to prepare media need larger film rental and purchasing budgets, an teachers for elementary and high schools, and with expansion of symposia and guest speakers, and the possible departments in the social sciences to establish programs in hiring of a coordinator or advisor to better focus the cultural documentation and investigation . Present needs are Program's activities. an increase in faculty and personnel, graduate lines for fellowships, teaching assistants and research assistants as University College at Purchase well as more equi ment and dedicated space. The Film Program major leading to a S .F .A . degree is offered through -lie Division of Theater Arts in the School University of the Arts . Established concurrently with the College in F# ncentration in the Art 1971, the Film Program s organized, according to its rtrn ..)'1 %. in its eighth year, surveys the develop Director, Willard Van Dyke, to provide preparation that ment ob fils eking through the technical and aesthetic would qualify students, after our years of training, to enter evaluation of filers, according to the Department Chairman ; the profession, The emphasis, however, is on training Professor Richard Callner . Professor Arthur Lennig, sole individual film artists rather than commercially-oriented uity member in the Programs, offers six courses yearly to technicians, with the hopes of putting more broadly hundred students, emphasizing primarily film theory, prepared individuals into the field . history and aesthetics, and screening nearly one hundred The Program presently has feature films as well as offering some film production in S Professors tiara yk ,~ and i?ic-r and "6mm. There is little "art Department equipment for time 'faculty, iNfiriani offering this production" and the students provide much of their about twelve ach ye- E roductio~r, own ; editing facilities, however, are available through the (cinematography . g, sound, osrect; s d script Program, writing) and film ar /theorylhistory, r st of which are iscuss ¬on are p ns to develop an undergraduate open only to the ilm majors . This policy, along with ° later, a gradual $ zm 7 -s a1 Stuo'E s which will the unusual r, hoo of the Arts, a'uiring the Film Z~`__l rses now to cc~iw credit hours in of rtmen- r a centration, a more intensive t.ra v entry+ion in the Art Di ~.. t This con entration of experience for a ited number of gifted under opholo . sy activity constitutes a basic need of generally available . The Program zent . endent hires projects and the concept of master pprentice re lationships between faculty and the relative) few majors. Stu is are also required to stud has offere the actor an urged to investigate other visual arts nary nor. major toward a (especially i tography, in which the Program offers nce 3972, under ;: -ct-.)n of Professor Robert tutori and the liberal arts . Hammond . The Prograr ° organized with the intention of ogram screens more than two hundred films providing numerous perz,~tiVes toward film appreciation each year, primarily feature-?ength narratives and doc with soured analvt I and critical methods within the full mentaries, and sponsors numerous visiting filmmakers. range of the libera ts . Faculty from eight departments I film library is in the process of being expanded . apply their area discipline to film with the hope, The fact that University College at Purchase has not yet according to Professor ond, that this multiplicity of completed construction of its Theater Arts Instructional approaches will provide the student with a broader aware- Facility which will house a two hundred-seat auditorium,, a ness of the possibilities of cinematic expression than any large film studio, cutting rooms, a sound transfer studio and ingle viewpoint would afford. Participating in the Program facilities for processing 1 Smm reversal film, has created the are Professor Hammond, Franklin Waltman and Victoria Film Program-+"s current need for dedicated space . As the Stiles (Foreign Languages), Patricia Connor (Art), Donna Theater Arts Instructional Facility will also house a color Anderson (Music), john Willmar (Geography), Eberhard television studio, the planned Program in Television has not

yet begun, similarly, the Visual Arts Instructional Facility, degree, offered since 1972, has with its extensive darkrooms, 0 not yet recently been phased out complete, limiting a program . It was current photography activity . conceived by the administration wi English Professor Gary Goodno received Professor Van tyke also a fellowship fr expresses the need for more the National Endowment for rapid acquisition of the Humanities to sty. equipment essential to an expanding cinema for a year program . A with the purpose of extending the vis two hundred percent increase in facilities is literacy of his students . Designed to teach history z expected in the next two years that will provide the Film aesthetics as well as the technical aspects of cinema Program with highly sophisticated super-8 thrOL sound sync and production courses, the Concentration editing capabilities, very good originally offer facilities in all aspects of seven courses each year, all 16mm as well as instructed by Profess processing of both formats, advanced Goodno, to approximately lighting, optical two hundred students. Quaff and audio equipment . super-8 cameras and editing facilities for twenty studei were purchased University College at roc port . The Program sponsored monthly fi A proposal programs and had strong interaction to begin an interdepartmental Program in with the Engli! Social Studies and Fine Studies in Film and Society is being discussed, Arts Departments . The Depart- Five courses are ments of English, History, Theater, currently offered as Humaniti Communications, electives--film history Psychology and sociology will participate and aesthetics are taught by Pr in the Program, boor Goodno organized around principles of through the English Department, and fil humanities and social production culture study . The Program coursework is offered through the Departme will offer at least nine film of courses each year to Art . about six hundred students, this being the extent of present activity . Among participating faculty Valley will be Fro-, Community College essors McCrear (History), Rubin (English), iai steps have been Reynolds taken to institute an , (Theatet 1 Tornawnications) and granting Lindauer Won A Photognphy and MeMat0grewh (PsYchoiogy), No rther information has been Although it is provided . is vet too early to speculate on tt development of the curriculum, both in terms of size air emphases, communi the Program w ndoubtediv offer more tha the four uper-8The Concen courses in rhea-- production prespntl taught,

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