"Not Still Art Festival" Events 1997

"BITS, BYTES & PIXELS PARTY", Friday May 9th. from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Gallery 53 on Main St. Cooperstown, NY, featuring digital prints as well as still images from some of the electronic motion imaging being screened. Free

"NOT STILL ART" VIDEO ART SCREENING will showing work from national open calls, begins at 7:00 PM. and go till approximately 8:30 PM. Suggested dontation: $4. Adults, $2. Students

A Rave in Cooperstown with featured DJ Benny Blanco from Boston! It's at 9pm in Gallery A in the Cooperstown Library. There will be a fee and hand-stamping at the door.

Saturday afternoon May 10th from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM the workshop, "VIDEO ART: WHAT IT IS" will be conducted by presenting artists and curators. The evolution of video art, its relevance and importance to our culture and its processes will be discussed in an open forum with the audience. Suggested donation: $4. Adults, $2. Students

"NOT STILL ART"VIDEO ART SCREENING will begin at 3:30 PM. and go till approximately 5 PM. (repeat of Friday night's program)Suggested dontation: $4. Adults, $2. Students

On Saturday evening May 10th, at 8:00 PM "LIVE BLUE LIGHT" will be performed by video artists CAROL GOSS and WALTER WRIGHT in collaboration with electronic musician, EUGENE MARTYNEC, and dancer VANESSA GOSS-BLEY performing electronic improvisations. The performance will be held at Gallery A of the Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY in the Library buillding across the street from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Admission: $8. Adults, $4. Students

The "NOT STILL ART FESTIVAL" is sponsored by the Boswell Museum, Gallery 53, and The Cooperstown Art Association. The Bosell Museum obtained a Decentralization Grant, administered in Otsego County by the Upper Catskill Community Council on the Arts; a Presentation Funds Grant from the Experimental Television Center and a Media Action Grant from Media Alliance to produce this years' Festival. These grants are funded with public funds through the New York State Council on the Arts. Generous support has also been received from WNET-TV, New York City.

Other community support has been given by Improvising Artists, a record and video company that will be taping the cable program documenting the Festival. The Festival would like to give special thanks to regional computer company Data World, Inc., Bassett Healthcare Research Institute, The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., the Cherry Valley Springfield Central School and internet provider, Telenet Associates Inc., for generously providing this web site, http://www.improvart.com/nsa.htm.

1996 "Not Still Art" Summary

Some local accomodations:

• KC's Motel and Diner, Rt. 20, East Springfield, NY (607) 264-9392.(Special rate for Festival Attendees: $40. per night plus tax).
• Deer Run Motel, Rt. 80, 9 mi. North of Cooperstown, 1 (888) 838-3337. Double occupancy rate of $50. per night plus tax.)
• Lake Front Motel, 10 Fair Street, one block from the Festival on Lake Otsego, 1 (607) 547-9511. $65. - $99. per night plus tax.)