Fred Barzyk
From Don Hallock — 8/29/2001
At first glance this man looks sane enough. In fact, his lifelong career has been skating the crazy edge of the barely possible, a madcap minister to the risky marriage of art and broadcast. And it's won Fred Barzyk (shown here speaking at the 2000 Reunion) yet another round of honors.
In 1998, the WGBH Archives, under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, moved to preserve several inNOVAtive and experimental video art series, many of which were produced and directed by Fred. The goal of the project, called the New Television Workshop Collection, was to organize the programming assets and create a Web accessible guide to the video art series New Television Workshop, Rockefeller Artists-in-Television, Artists' Showcase, Music Image Workshop, Dance for Camera, Framee of Reference, VIsions, Alive from Off Center, Soundings, Poetry Breaks and The Contemporary Art Television Fund.
This summer, that collection is being shared with the museum patrons of Milwaukee in an installation of Fred's work at the Haggerty Museum.
Related...
- WGBH Archives Honors Fred Barzyk (12/7/2000)
- Barzyk Honored For "Personal Vision in Television" (8/29/01)