# 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