The Experimental Television Center is a video art production studio in Owego, New York, that provides artists with the tools of video art production through artist residencies and grants.
The studio was founded in 1971 as an outgrowth of a media access program established by Ralph Hocking at Binghamton University in 1969. The studio later affiliated with Alfred University's media arts program, with which it shares instructors. The Center provides support and services to the video art community by offering artist residencies to established and emerging video artists as well as an annual international student artist residency each summer.
The studio's video processing equipment includes a custom Dave Jones Colorizer, a Design Lab Frame Buffer, a Deupfer Synthesizer, a Dave Jones custom 8 Channel Video Sequencer, the Paik/Abe Raster Synthesizer or 'Wobbulator' and a custom Dan Sandin Sandin Image Processor.
Artists who have held residencies at the center include Nam June Paik, Benton-C Bainbridge, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Gary Hill, Marisa Olson, Kristin Lucas, Torsten Zenas Burns, Barbara Hammer, LoVid, and Dearraindrop.
The Center has announced via its website that it is closing most of its programs, including the studio, as of July 2011.
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