For decades, we received generous support from arts organizations and did amazing things. Now we are reaching out to the technology community as we drag Humanities out of the dark ages an onto the Internet. Because, wow, it's rough out there.

Our Mission

To encourage the creation of work using new electronic media technologies.

To honor independent media art through partnerships which address the need for research, education and preservation.

To advocate for the sharing and equitable and transparent distribution of information, research and art.

Supporters

Our programs received support from the Electronic Media and Film Program, New York State Council on the Arts; Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology; Media Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts; The National Television and Video Preservation Foundation; NY/CUNY Challenge Grant Program; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; New York Foundation for the Arts; Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University; Everson Museum of Art; Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) and many others.

Since 1989 over 1.5 million dollars has been awarded to organizations and artists

In turn, Experimental Television Center offered fiscal sponsorship for projects in the electronic and film arts, with an emphasis on moving-image art and experimental media. Completed projects received worldwide exhibition and distribution, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYS Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, ITVS, Astraea Foundation, Soros Documentary Fund, Chase Manhattan, Creative Capital, The Wexner Center, Funding Exchange, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Jerome Foundation, and the Henry John Simonds Foundation.