Experimental Television Center

The Goldsen Archive is the repository of the 40-year history of the Experimental Television Center (ETC), including over 3,000 titles of video art and original ephemera documenting the history of the media. Founded in 1971 by Ralph Hocking in Binghamton, NY, ETC moved in 1979 into studio spaces in Owego, where its residential studio program, overseen by Sherry Miller Hocking, hosted over 1,500 of the world’s leading video artists until its closure in 2011. The early collaborators, who helped design ETC’s unique video processing system, included Nam June Paik, Shuya Abe, David Jones, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and Walter Wright. ETC catalyzed the growth of media art in the Central New York region, while providing support to emergent artists, such as Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Bill Viola, Paik, Shigeko Kubota, and Charlotte Moorman, who would develop into icons in the international art world. Alan Sondheim, Mary Ross, and Lynn Sachs are among the ETC artists depositing their personal archives in Goldsen.

A grant from the Cornell Library Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences provides online access for the Cornell community to a substantial range of digitized ETC video art. Titles can be accessed here.

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