# Organizations and Support Index
**[[0 to 9]]** — American poetry/art magazine co-founded by [[Vito Acconci]] and Bernadette Mayer, 1967–1969.
#language #conceptual
**[[Anthology Film Archives]]** — New York film archive and exhibitor co-founded 1970 by [[Jonas Mekas]], [[P. Adams Sitney]], and others; its "Essential Cinema" collection helped canonize the American avant-garde.
#ny-underground #institution-builder
**[[Art Institute of Light]]** — Organization founded by [[Thomas Wilfred]] to promote Lumia as a fine art in its own right.
#institution-builder
**[[Barbara Hammer Estate Project]]** — Grant program established from [[Barbara Hammer]]'s estate to fund queer and trans experimental filmmakers.
#queer #institution-builder
**[[Bell Laboratories]]** — Bell Labs' computer music and computer graphics research groups, foundational to early computer-generated sound and image ([[Laurie Spiegel]], [[James Tenney]], [[Lillian Schwartz]], and others worked there).
#bell-labs #institution-builder
**[[Black Mountain College]]** — Experimental liberal arts college in North Carolina (1933–1957), organized around interdisciplinary art-making and communal labor; a central incubator for the postwar American avant-garde in visual art, dance, music, and poetry.
#institution-builder #bauhaus
**[[Composers Inside Electronics]]** — Live-electronic instrument-building collective founded by [[David Tudor]].
#institution-builder
**[[Creative Film Foundation]]** — Grant-giving body for independent American filmmakers, founded by [[Maya Deren]] in 1955.
#institution-builder
**[[Deep Listening Institute]]** — Organization built around [[pauline oliveros|Pauline Oliveros]]'s Deep Listening practice and pedagogy.
#sound #institution-builder
**[[Digital Productions]]** — Computer animation company co-founded by [[John Whitney Jr.]] and Gary Demos, 1981.
#institution-builder
**[[Film-Makers' Cooperative]]** — Non-curated, filmmaker-run distribution cooperative founded by [[Jonas Mekas]] in 1962; the New York model that inspired the [[London Film-Makers' Co-op]].
#ny-underground #institution-builder
**[[Fluxus]]** — International network of artists working across performance, object, and publication, active from the early 1960s.
#fluxus
**[[Galleries]]**
#gallery
**[[German Absolute Film]]** — 1920s German abstract-animation movement ([[Walter Ruttmann]], [[Viking Eggeling]], [[Hans Richter]], [[Oskar Fischinger]]).
#absolute-film #german-avant-garde
**[[Grupo Goethe]]** — Argentine experimental film collective associated with the Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires; [[Narcisa Hirsch]], Marie Louise Alemann, Claudio Caldini, and others.
#latin-american
**[[Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas]]** — Madrid-based institute where [[José Val del Omar]] built his apparatuses and made his films.
#institution-builder
**[[League of Automatic Music Composers]]** — Live computer network music ensemble, late 1970s–80s; [[John Bischoff]] was a founding member.
#performance #sound
**[[London Film-Makers' Co-op]]** — British filmmaker-run distribution, production, and exhibition cooperative central to structural/materialist and expanded cinema.
#structural-materialist #expanded-cinema #lfmc
**[[Merce Cunningham Dance Company]]** — Dance company for which [[David Tudor]] served as longtime music director, succeeding John Cage.
#performance
**[[Mills College Center for Contemporary Music]]** — Bay Area electronic and experimental music center; longtime affiliation for [[David Behrman]], [[David Rosenboom]], [[Maggi Payne]], and others.
#mills #sound
**[[National Film Board of Canada]]** — Canadian federal film agency; [[Norman McLaren]] founded and led its animation studio from 1941.
#animation #institution-builder
**[[New American Cinema Group]]** — New York underground exhibition and distribution infrastructure, including the Filmmakers' Cinematheque, built in the early 1960s.
#ny-underground #institution-builder
**[[Residencies]]**
#residency
**[[San Francisco Tape Music Center]]** — Electronic music studio and performance venue co-founded by [[pauline oliveros|Pauline Oliveros]], [[Morton Subotnick]], and [[Ramon Sender]], 1962.
#sound #west-coast #institution-builder
**[[Society for Animation Studies]]**
#animation
**[[Sonic Arts Union]]** — collective ([[Robert Ashley|Ashley]], [[David Behrman|Behrman]], [[Alvin Lucier|Lucier]], [[Gordon Mumma|Mumma]])
**[[State University of New York at Buffalo Center for Media Study]]** — Academic center central to American structural film; faculty included [[Hollis Frampton]] and [[Paul Sharits]] from 1970.
#buffalo #structural-materialist
**[[The Factory]]** — [[Andy Warhol]]'s studio and social hub, active 1962–1984 (47th St, then Union Square, NYC).
#ny-underground
**[[Tundra]]** — collective
**[[Vilém Flusser Archive]]** — Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts founded and directed by [[Siegfried Zielinski]] to house Vilém Flusser's work.
#institution-builder