Visual Studies Workshop

03/24/2022

Tonight's Salon event, 'Doug Curry presents: Blacks and Blues in the VSW Film/Video Collection,' will be in-person in the microcinema and live-streaming at https://www.twitch.tv/visualstudiesworkshop/videos. Show starts at 7pm. Don't miss it!

Watch all of VisualStudiesWorkshop's best archives, VODs, and highlights on Twitch. Find their latest Just Chatting streams and much more right here.

03/08/2022

In honor of Women's Day, we are happy to share a 1973 episode of Homemade TV from the Portable Channel Collection at VSW.

Produced by Portable Channel and Women's Television Workshop for WXXI's series "Catch 21". "Women on Women" is an episode exploring media literacy for women and opportunities for using video and open media to replace commercial and stereotyped images of women. Interviews with prominent creative women (Mary Anna Towler, Viveca Lyndfors) about developing fulfilling careers. Includes clips from then-current television commercials for women's products. - from the Portable Channel Catalog
Shot in Rochester, NY, May 24, 1973
Format: EIAJ 1/2" Open Reel video; 5" reel; b&w sound; 20 minutes
Organization: Portable Channel and the Women's Television Workshop

Produced by Portable Channel and Women's Televsion Workshop for WXXI's series "Catch 21". "Women on Women" is an episode exploring…

03/03/2022

VSW Press update!
Due to high demand, we are now taking orders for the third printing of Bouquets 11-2: Notebooks by Rose Lowder! We are taking orders for a very limited shipment in April (see link below)

"As film is an independent entity incorporating numerous techniques and technologies based on society’s social, economical, political and artistic norms, one has to work towards an opening between what film and reality are in order to construct a temporal presence on the screen." - Rose Lowder

The VSW Press imprint Film Artist Book (FAB) focuses on advancing discourse around experimental film artists. The first FAB book celebrating the practice of Rose Lowder, Rose Lowder-Bouquets 11-20: Notebooks, is newly available in a 3rd printing—order now for April shipment. Another FAB title, Ep...

01/13/2022

We have a few spots left in our 16mm Production course! Non-credit course fee is $550. Contact [email protected] for more information.

12/31/2021

Farewell 2021!
Announcing the VSW Salon, Spring 2022 schedule:

VSW Salon Spring 2022 As 2021 winds down, VSW is pleased to announce the Spring 2022 Salon event dates, including Project Space Open Studios and several events and screenings in our microcinema. VSW Salon events take place the second and fourth Thursday of each month. Most VSW Salon events begin at....

10/26/2021

The 6th annual Rochester Archives Fair will take place via Zoom tomorrow from 2-4 pm. VSW's Curator of Moving Image Collections, Tara Nelson, will be giving a "lightning talk" about the Communty Curator program. Registration is free!

6th Annual Rochester Archives Fair – Registration Now Open! The Rochester Archives Fair is going virtual!Join us October 27 from 2-4pm on Zoom Webinar.Free to attend and open to all! Register Discover the remarkable archival resources available in the Rochester region at the 6th annual Rochester A...