Created in 1979 by film scholar, writer and video producer John Dorr (and a handful of filmmakers, actors, writers, musicians and artists), Los Angeles' EZTV is an influential and pioneering media arts institution, creating one of the world's first video theaters, computer art gallery and independent media center. Dorr wrote, produced and directed some of the earliest feature-length narrative films on video, and through his advocacy and example, helped spawn the current independent media revolution, seen most typically today, online, through services such as YouTube. This Manual of Style has the simple purpose of making things easy to read by following a consistent format — it is a style guide. ... For the song by The Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... New media art (also known as media art) is a generic term used to describe art related to, or created with, a technology invented or made widely available since the mid-20th Century. ... This computer generated image was created using the program Sterling Fractal, which uses a fractal to seed the colouring algorithms and filters. ... It has been suggested that Media Server be merged into this article or section. ... Alternative media are defined most broadly as those media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication. ... YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. ...

After a series of public screenings of early EZTV videos at the West Hollywood Community Center, Dorr, and a group of EZTV co-founders, including Michael Masucci, Strawn Bovee, Mark Shepard, James Williams, Pat Miller and others, created in 1982 "EZTV Video Gallery", a 40 seat video theater, art gallery and media lab. The success of the gallery was instantaneous, due in part to an article in the American Film Institute's American Film magazine, as well as in various local print and electronic press, and within two years, and national media attention, EZTV expanded to a 100 seat video theater, with two gallery spaces, a production studio, five video editing rooms, a music lab and a photography darkroom. EZTV continued to receive routine local press attention, through newspapers such as the LA Times, the LA Weekly, and the LA Reader, as well as various magazine, TV and radio coverage. James Williams is the name of several notable people: James Williams (1740-1780), U.S. Revolution, Colonel from South Carolina James Williams (1825-1899), U.S. Congressman from Delaware James Williams (1951-2004), Jazz Pianist This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. ... The Los Angeles Times (also L.A. Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. ... L.A. Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized newspaper (a so-called alternative weekly) in Los Angeles, California. ...

Fillmakers who screened at EZTV included Jean Luc-Godard, Robert Altman, Chantal Ackerman, as well as artists ranging from David Hockney, Keith Haring, Yoko Ono, Barminski, musicians ranging from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Flag and many of the pionering digital artists exhibited, collaborated, or lectured at EZTV. Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. ... We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961. ... Harings Radiant Baby Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990) was a pre-eminent artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York street culture of the 1980s. ... Yoko Ono Lennon (born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese musician and artist best known as the widow of John Lennon of The Beatles. ... The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a multiple Grammy Award-winning [2] American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. ... Black Flag may refer to: Black Flag (insecticide), a brand of insecticide made by the Fountainhead Group Czarny Sztandar (1903), a Białystok anarchist organisation Chernoe Znamja (1905), a Geneva anarchist newspaper Black Flag (band), a hardcore punk band Black Flag (newspaper), an anarchist newspaper Black Flag Army, a bandit... Computer-generated image created by Gilles Tran using POV-Ray 3. ...

Through the efforts of EZTV's Michael Masucci, and ia Kamandalu (aka Kim McKillip), often working in collaboration with digital artist Victor Acevedo, and art historian and Patric Prince, EZTV began to become a vital center for the exploration, exhibition and advocacy of the emerging new media arts. EZTV was often the meeting place for the LA chapter of SIGGRAPH, and through the efforts of LA-SIGGRAPHS Joan Collins and Coco Conn, was the first site for SIG-KIDZ, a pioneering experiment in digital art and education. Various other organizations, including the International Documentary Association, the Long Beach Museum of Art Video Annex, the Visual Music Alliance, the California Outside Music Association and the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies guest-curated numerous exhibitions at EZTV. SIGGRAPH 2005 official logo SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group in Graphics) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. ...

EZTV founder John Dorr died on jan 1, 1993, from the complications of HIV/AIDS. The American Film Institute's International Film Festival was named that year in his memory, and he was eulogized in obituaries in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, the Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Documentary Magazine. Following Dorr's death, EZTV moved into a series of art organization-in-residency, including in Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), from 1996-2000, and Santa Monica's 18th Street Arts Center (2000-present). The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The Hollywood Reporter is one of two major trade papers of the film industry in the United States, the other being Variety. ... Variety is a daily magazine for the entertainment industry. ...

EZTV continued, under the direction of Michael Masucci and Kate Johnson, and continued the curatorial as well as production methodologies, premiering various new EZTV projects at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York) the Institute of Contemporary Art (London) and various galleries, conferences and festivals. View across garden, in new MoMA building by Yoshio Taniguchi. ...

"Hacking the Timeline" an on-going project concerned with the historical analysis of the new media revolution, was instituted in 2003 and has staged lectures, online screenings and gallery exhibitions of classic and emerging digital art.

EZTV continues today, producing original work which has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the American Film Institute, Bravo, the BBC, the History Channel and various galleries and festivals. TEZTV is currently an artist organization-in-residency at the 18th Street Atrs Center in Santa Monica. Bravo is a British television channel, owned by Flextech. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... The History Channel is a cable television channel, dedicated to the presentation of historical events and persons, often with frequent observations and explanations by noted historians as well as reenactors and witnesses to events, if possible. ...

External links

• EZTV Media
• Hacking the Timeline