[Kyger, Joanne, Brice Howard, Charles Olson, et al.].

[National Center for Experiments in Television meeting transcripts from the library of Joanne Kyger].

N.p., 1967–1968. Item #3997

17 corner-stapled, 8 ½ x 14 in. packets of mimeograph transcripts, totaling 446 pages.

A comprehensive collection of mimeograph transcripts from the library of poet Joanne Kyger related to The National Center for Experiments in Television. The NCET was run by Brice Howard and Paul Kaufman starting in 1967 out of San Francisco’s public television station KQED, where Howard served as the Director of the KQED-San Francisco’s Rockefeller Foundation-funded artists’ workshop. Seeking to provide a space in which artists could use television itself as a medium, Howard established a roster of artists-in-residence in the programs early years that included Joanne Kyger, the painter William Gwyn, the artist and inventor Stephen Beck, designer Willard Rosenquist, filmmaker and physicist Loren Sears, and artist Don Hallock. Transcripts vary in length and document conversations and meetings between these artists-in-residence along with Howard and other early figures involved in the NCET, including Charles Olson and Joel Katz, offering extensive and unique insights into the first year of the NCET’s operations.

Transcripts are corner-stapled and each packet contains one to six transcripts transcribed from different reels. Reel numbers are noted in the top right-hand corner on the first page of each transcript. Transcripts include:  

1: September 12, 1967: three transcripts totaling 31 pages.

2: September 14, 1967: four transcripts totaling 51 pages, with final page detached from staple.

3: September 15, 1967: four transcripts totaling 38 pages.

4: September 19, 1967: three transcripts totaling 30 pages.

5: September 28, 1967: two transcripts totaling 19 pages, with pp. 2—8 of the second transcripts containing one to two neat slits down the length of the page, with lengths varying and at times running almost the duration of the page. These slits do not destroy any text, though page 8 is missing a portion of the paper on the right edge, with the text unaffected.

6: October 5, 1967: one transcript, ten pages, with final page detached from staple.

7: January 3, 1968: one transcript, 12 pages.

8: January 4, 1968: two transcripts totaling 25 pages.

9: February 1, 1968: two transcripts totaling 22 pages.

10: February 2 and March 1, 1968: five transcripts totaling 58 pages.

11: March 19, 1968: one transcript, eight pages.

12: April 2, April 4, 1968: six transcripts totaling 49 pages, noted as the Charles Olson transcripts.

13: April 7, 1968: two transcripts totaling 21 pages, noted as the Joel Katz transcripts.

14: April 9, 1968: three transcripts totaling 25 pages, and likely a continuation of the April 7 Joel Katz transcripts.

15: April 16, 1968: two transcripts totaling 13 pages.

16: May 7, 1968: two transcripts totaling 13 pages.

17: May 14, 1968: two transcripts totaling 21 pages.

All transcripts are in good to very good condition and across the grouping exhibit varying levels of toning, wear, evidence of handling, and foxing.

Price: $2,500.00