[Frameworks] Dominic's question re. access to Haller's record of proto-NAMAC conference

Wed May 26 14:28:00 UTC 2021

Ron, thank you that detailed report of the material. I see what a job compiling this material and making it available. Such a volume of these reports seems monumental to archive. 

I will contact Anthology if I have specific questions. I realize Anthology is understaffed and overworked like many film organizations. The same was true for Canyon Cinema when there has always been 1.5 staff members.

Again thanks much for you response.

Dominic Angerame

> On May 26, 2021, at 7:17 AM, Green, Ron Green <green.31 at osu.edu> wrote:
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> Dominic, thanks for your interest, but I don't have copies of Haller's report, or of the other materials from my 1980s NEA report on media arts centers. I sent them all to Anthology a couple of years ago. I don't know if they have the staff time to allow access yet, much less the staff time to copy and mail. That legal-secretary transcript of the conference in Pittsburgh that you are asking about is several hundred pages long, for instance. The material I sent to Anthology included at least 5 big file boxes with documents from the approximately 50 media arts centers that I visited, plus meta-materials I collected to cover theory, policy statements, NEA documents, and records of the meetings that we all conducted during the invention and development of NAMAC. It includes my final report to NEA and drafts of it, and a couple of articles I published out of that research. There is also an attache case full of a couple-hundred hours of interviews on audio-cassette I conducted with leaders of media arts centers--e.g.:  Jonas; Sally Dixon; Shelton Renan, Siew-Hwa Beh, Freuda, Tom Luddy and others in the Bay area; Dan Ladely at the Sheldon in Lincoln Nebraska; Ted Perry at MoMA; Nathan Lyons at Visual Studies Workshop; Stan Woodward at SC Arts Commission; David Ross at Long Beach; and many others--across maybe 30 states, plus transcripts of some of those interviews. I made a multi-page annotated table of contents of all this for Anthology, but I'll let them decide whether to post that since they--thankfully--have accepted the chore of managing archiving and access. Anthology is currently in a building campaign, as you probably know, but I'm sure they would respond to any specific questions regarding holdings and access.
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> From: Dominic Angerame <dominic.angerame at gmail.com <mailto:dominic.angerame at gmail.com>>
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> I was at that conference in the 80s how do I get a copy of that report.
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> Thanks
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> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 8:39 AM Green, Ron Green <green.31 at osu.edu <mailto:green.31 at osu.edu>> wrote:
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> > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717__;!!KGKeukY!nll8-OlNH672_zZnD5pXo7tnFAGQ45mFz-3MJEGei5CoQ2HbiZKKMbVPfsq4752M$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717__;!!KGKeukY!nll8-OlNH672_zZnD5pXo7tnFAGQ45mFz-3MJEGei5CoQ2HbiZKKMbVPfsq4752M$> 
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> > We are very sad to hear about Haller. He has been one of the mainstays of
> > avant-garde film for five decades. My wife, Louisa, and I have worked with
> > him off and on since the early '70s. The last time we saw him was in
> > October of 2019, at the memorial service for Gerry O'Grady at Anthology.
> >
> > Haller was one of the two supporting pillars of the earliest days of
> > Pittsburgh's avant-garde film culture--Sally Dixon was the other. Together
> > they invented, developed, and held together, through thick and thin, the
> > Carnegie film program and Pittsburgh Filmmakers. There were other good
> > people in the invention of PF, but Haller was essential, and probably the
> > most travelled. He never missed any of the film conferences at Buffalo, and
> > he was assiduous in documenting them, as well as many other such events,
> > photographically. He is the unofficial photographer of record for that
> > period of the takeoff of the avant-garde film movement, a period when
> > image-device culture was not a "thing," and images of that culture were
> > rare. Haller's many photographs of film people such as Brakhage, Baillie,
> > Schneeman, Snow, Ken and Flo Jacobs, Emschwiller, Sharits, Frampton, Gehr,
> > Kubelka, Blue, Paik, Shigeko Kubota, the Vasulkas, the Heins, and many
> > other artists, as well as the many institutional leaders of the movement,
> > are surely the major visual record of avant-garde film culture in the two
> > or three decades before cell-phone photography. We have lost so many people
> > from Haller's generation recently, and Haller and Sally are among the most
> > painful for us.
> >
> > Haller was one of the most unassuming leaders I've known. In spite of his
> > modesty, he was always a leader. When he hosted one of the most important
> > planning meetings of the media-arts-center movement in the '80s, he made
> > sure that there was a verbatim record of the entire two-day discussion
> > among about 20 of the leaders and funders of the major media centers in the
> > country--every single word is on the printed record. (A hard copy of that
> > conference record is one of many such things in a collection I deposited a
> > couple of years ago at Anthology--thank you, Anthology!)
> >
> > We miss, appreciate, and celebrate his life.
> >
> > Ron and Louisa Green
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> > < <applewebdata://0B8123DE-F645-498B-B34B-3BC4C1979C07>https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717__;!!KGKeukY!nll8-OlNH672_zZnD5pXo7tnFAGQ45mFz-3MJEGei5CoQ2HbiZKKMbVPfsq4752M$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717__;!!KGKeukY!nll8-OlNH672_zZnD5pXo7tnFAGQ45mFz-3MJEGei5CoQ2HbiZKKMbVPfsq4752M$> >
> > Robert HALLER Obituary - Staten Island, NY
> > < <applewebdata://0B8123DE-F645-498B-B34B-3BC4C1979C07>https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717__;!!KGKeukY!nll8-OlNH672_zZnD5pXo7tnFAGQ45mFz-3MJEGei5CoQ2HbiZKKMbVPfsq4752M$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/staten-island-ny/robert-haller-10175717__;!!KGKeukY!nll8-OlNH672_zZnD5pXo7tnFAGQ45mFz-3MJEGei5CoQ2HbiZKKMbVPfsq4752M$> >
> > Anthology lost one of its most important, devoted, and well-loved staff
> > members yesterday, with the passing of Robert Haller (1942-2021). Robert
> > was a fixture at Anthology since 1980, when he first arrived in New York
> > for a four-year stint as Anthology?s Executive Director.
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