artists
Works
- Time SquaredBranda Miller, 1987
- Easy LivingChip Lord , Mickey McGowan, The C.A.T. Fund, 1984
- Ganapati: A Spirit in the BushDaniel Reeves, 1986
- L'ImageDanièlle Nyst, Jacques Louis , 1987
- Storm and StressDoug Hall, 1986
- More TV StoriesIlene Segalove , 1985
- Double Lunar DogsJoan Jonas, The C.A.T. Fund, 1984
- New England Fishermen: SpotsJoan Logue, 1985
- What You Mean We?Laurie Anderson, 1986
- As If Memories Could Deceive MeMarcel Odenbach, 1986
- The World of PhotographyMichael Smith , William Wegman, 1986
- EvolTony Oursler, 1984
Curator's text Kathy Rae Huffman, 1990
Contemporary Art Television Fund
The Contemporary Art Television Fund (or Cat Fund) was created in 1983 with a special three year grant initiative from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. This new work development award marked the beginning of an innovative and experimental television production project between WGBH, Boston's public television station, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. New England's most prominient contemporary art center. Among the initial goals and objetives, the Cat Fund was designed to facilitate the production and the distribution of artists video from all disciplines; to create an experimental model of cooperation between a contemporary art museum and public television station (exploiting both organizations to enable efficient administration and high profile for the artist); and to establish the curator/producer as a model for the development of dialogue between artists and television.
Since its inception, the Cat Fund has strategically built on streigh of its alliances with contemporary art world, through the ICA, and with public broadcasting through WBGH. Its goals have always been, and continue to be: to foster the highest level excellence in the exploration of television as a creative medium; to broaden video art's international audicence by local, national, and international venues such as broadcast, home video distribution, and gallery exhibition; and to substantially increase revenues for artists from the distribution of their works.
The Cat Fund's programmatic strengh will remain in its ability to identifiy comission and produce exciting new works by artists who challenge the establiseh values of television in a experimental format. As a program of the ICA since 1989, this mission will form the very heart of the Cat Fund's primary interest, and will be the cornerstone for all its activities. To date, the Cat Fund has produced, or co-produced, 17 videotapes. In addition to the select program, works by Dara Birnbaum, Ken Feinglod, Bill Viola, Bill Seaman and Burt Barr/James Benning; a home distribution (VHS and videodisc) for Bill Viola's "I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like"; an interactive videodisc "The Watch Detail", by Bill Seaman, "Relatives", a performance with video by Constance Dejong and Tony Oursler: and "The Expulsion of the Moors", a multi-media theatrical installation by Raul Ruiz co-produced with IVAM, Spain and the Ministry of Culture, France. New works in production include an animate videodisc "String Cyrcles", by Peter D`Agostino.
With the many partners and collaborators continually informing it, the Cat Fund can only further solidify its role as a catalyst for the creation of new and interactive video. In the future, these exciting new projects will streghthen The Fund's innovative support to growing number of artists.
8th Fotoptica Internacional Video Festival. 09 a 15 de Novembro de 1990. p. 30.