Gerald O'Grady [b. 1931, Framingham/Massachusetts] About Gerald O'Grady | Biography | Works in the Exhibition 1949-1954 Studied English Literature at Boston College, Massachusetts 1958 Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin 1967-1972 Professor for English Literature at the State University of New York, SUNY, Buffalo 1974 Organized Open Circuits, the first international conference on the future of television at the Museum of Modern Art, New York [together with Douglas Davis et al.] 1976 Conducted a series of interviews entitled Film-Makers with film artists such as Paul Sharits, Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka and Jonas Mekas for WNED-TV, Channel 17 in Buffalo 1972-1988 Founder and Director of the Department of Media Study at SUNY, Buffalo, which offered the first media arts degree in the United States and was the first to include a Digital Arts Laboratory 1973-1988 Founder and Director of Media Study/Buffalo 1973-1990 Founder and Director of the Educational Communications Center at SUNY, Buffalo, which provided instructional media services to all of its 128 academic departments 2001 Distinguished visiting scholar at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 2003-2004 Researcher-in-residence at La Fondation Daniel Langlois pour l'Art, la Science et la Technologie in Montreal, Canada