Contemporary Art Television Fund Explained

The Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund was an initiative seed-funded for three years by the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1983-1986.[1] The fund was a collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and WGBH TV, and Boston’s Public Television Station.

Kathy Rae Huffman was appointed curator/producer with a mandate to create a context for artists to define television as a medium for personal expression. The Fund was to increase visibility of artists work in television, to create larger distribution markets for artists television/video, and to experiment with methods for funding and self-sustaining strategies for media arts production.

Projects

Events, meetings of producers, and presentations were conducted. The following projects were commissioned, and co-produced by The CAT Fund, 1984-1991 (in alphabetical order):

In 1997, The DeCordova Museum presented The CAT Fund, as part of its HIstory of Video Art in Boston series. Part II: The 1980s.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2011-05-16 . Contemporary Art Television Fund . 2023-07-31 . www.videohistoryproject.org.

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