Contemporary Art Television Fund
The Contemporary Art Television Fund was an initiative seed-funded for three years by the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1983-1986. The fund was a collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and WGBH TV, and Boston’s Public Television Station.
Kathy Rae Huffman was appointed curator/producer with a mandate to create a context for artists to define television as a medium for personal expression. The Fund was to increase visibility of artists work in television, to create larger distribution markets for artists television/video, and to experiment with methods for funding and self-sustaining strategies for media arts production.
Projects
Events, meetings of producers, and presentations were conducted. The following projects were commissioned, and co-produced by The CAT Fund, 1984-1991 :- Laurie Anderson: What You Mean We?
- Burt Barr and James Benning: O Panama
- Dara Birnbaum: Will-O'-The-Wisp
- Peter D'Agostino: String Cycles
- Ken Feingold: Irony
- Doug Hall: Storm and Stress
- Joan Jonas: Double Lunar Dogs
- Joan Logue: New England Fisherman: Spots
- Chip Lord and Mickey McGowen: Easy Living
- Branda Miller: Time Squared
- Jacques Louise and Daniele Nyst: L'Image
- Marcel Odenbach: As If Memories Could Deceive Me
- Tony Oursler: EVOL
- Tony Oursler and Constance DeJong: Relatives
- Daniel Reeves: Ganapati / a spirit in the bush
- Raul Ruiz: Expulsion of the Moors The
- Bill Seaman: The Watch Detail
- Bill Seaman: The Water Catalogue
- Ilene Segalove: More TV Stories
- Michael Smith & William Wegman: The World of Photography
- Bill Viola: I Do Not Know What it is I Am Like