“A pioneer in the development of experimental film and live-action animation techniques, Stan VanDerBeek achieved widespread recognition in the American avant-garde cinema. An advocate of the application of a utopian fusion of art and technology, he began making films in 1955. In the 1960s, he produced theatrical, multimedia pieces and computer animation, often working in collaboration with Bell Telephone Laboratories. In the 1970s, he constructed a “Movie Drome” in Stony Point, New York, which was an audiovisual laboratory for the projection of film, dance, magic theater, sound and other visual effects. His multimedia experiments included movie murals, projection systems, planetarium events and the exploration of early computer graphics and image-processing systems.
VanDerBeek was also intimately involved with the artists and art movements of his time; he filmed Happenings and merged dance with films and videos. VanDerBeek was a preeminent thinker, scientist, artist, and inventor who forged new links between art, technology, perception, and humankind. In 1966, he wrote a visionary manifesto about man losing his way in his place on earth and the power of artists to rectify the course." [Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), 2011]
Stan VanDerBeek
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| last name: | VanDerBeek |
| first name: | Stan |
| also known as: | Stanley Van Der Beek or Vanderbeek |
| birthday: | January 6, 1927 |
| birth-place: | New York, NY (USA) |
| death date: | September 19, 1984 |
| died in: | Baltimore, MD (USA) |
Summary
Biography
| 1952 | Certificate of Art, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY |
| 1957 | Doctorate (Honorary,) Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC |
| 1972 | Doctorate (Honorary,) Cooper Union, New York, NY |
| 1960 | New Medium-New Forms, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1965(?) | The World of Stanley VanDerBeek, The Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1968 | The Projected Image, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA |
| 1969 | Cybernetic Serendipity, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Found Forms, Intermedia Festival, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1970 | Vision and Television, Billy Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA Telephone Mural Project, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Telephone Mural Project, Arranged by The Institute of Contemporary Art at the following locations: Boston City Hall, Children’s Museum, DeCordova Museum and The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Exploration, MIT Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, MA (Group show) |
| 1971 | Information Center, Sao Paulo Biennial with the MIT Center of Advanced Visual Studies, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 1972 | Video Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Multiple Interaction Team, MIT, Cambridge; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago; The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Palace of Arts and Sciences, San Francisco Cine Dreams: Cinema of The Mind, Strasenburgh Planetarium, Rochester, NY |
| 1973 | 33rd Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1974 | Cine-Naps, University of South Florida Planetarium, with Ruth Abraham |
| 1975 | Fog Mist and Dreams presented at Art Transition in collaboration with Joan Brigham, sponsored by MIT |
| 1976 | Machine Art: An Exhibit of “Inter-Graphich” by Professor Stan VanDerBeek, U.M.B.C. Library Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Under Aquarius an event in the Alumni Pool at MIT in collaboration with Joan Brigham |
| 1977 | Stan VanDerBeek Retrospective, Anthology Film Archives Under Aquarius in collaboration with Joan Brigham, Hampshire College, MA |
| 1979-80 | Steam Screens, film performance in collaboration with Joan Brigham, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1983 | Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1984 | Fluxus, etc.: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas The American Independent Cinema: 1958-1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1986 | ACM SIGGRAPH Art Show, Film and Video Exhibition, Dallas, Texas |
| 1996 | Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1997 | European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany |
| 2001 | Stan VanDerBeek: A Space Art Visionary of the Sixties and Seventies, Outer Space – Cyber Space, Art Workshop in Boulogne Billancourt, France |
| 2002 | Crime and Punishment, Balagan, Brookline, Massachusetts |
| 2003 | Stan VanDerBeek, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY |
| 2004 | 4D in the Filmmuseum, Dutch Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands History from the Avant-Garde Film: Stan VanDerBeek, Balagan, Brookline, Massachusetts. May 2004 Monthly Selection, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England 1960’s Electric Arts: From Kinetic Sculpture to Media Environments, Seattle Art Museum Downtown, Seattle, Washington Newsreel of Dreams 1, Independent Film Show 5th Edition, EM-Arts, Napoli, Italy |
| 2006 | Silver Screens to Liquid Crystals: Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland Le Mouvement Des Images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France The Expanded Eye: Film Screenings (Cybernetica / Early Computer Films and Film as Material), Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2007 | Genesis: Life at the End of the Information Age, Central Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands bit international –[Nove] Tendencije – Computer and Visual Research, curated by Darko Fritz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA Stan VanDerBeek Works from 1950 – 1980, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY Pretty Ugly, Maccarone, New York, NY Communication Breakdown, Edlin Gallery, New York, NY (Sept. 13 – Oct. 25, 2008) Galerie Impaire, Paris, France (Sept. 24 – Nov. 2, 2008) Stan VanDerBeek, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY (Sept. 13 – Oct. 18, 2008) |
| 1960 | Film of Snapshots from the City, performance at Judson Gallery with Claus Oldenburg, New York, NY |
| 1963-65 | Conceived and built “Movie-drome” Stony Point, NY |
| 1964 | “Major Films of Stan VanDerBeek” Presented by the Experimental Film Society, Washington Square Theatre, New York, NY |
| 1965 | Vision of ’65, Lincoln Center, New York, Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, Carbondale, Ill. |
| 1965-66 | Films Screened, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, New York, NY |
| 1966 | Harvard Club, New York Design Conference, Aspen, Colorado University of Southern California, Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 1967 | Film Festival, London New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY Aspen, Colorado, Design Conference Los Angeles, USC International Congress on Art and Religion, New York, NY National Council of Planning, Washington, D.C Design-in, Central Park, New York |
| 1968 | “VanDerBeekiaana.” Camera Three. By Robert Herridge. CBS. Interview and participant on “Literarisches Collequium” – Berlin, W.G. 20th Century |
| 1969 | Interview and performance: “Crosstalk,” Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, Japan Strassenburgh Planetarius: “Cine Dreams” CAPS grant, New York State Council for Arts; Whitney Museum, New York “Feedback” Syracuse University (TV) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 1970 | “Violence Sonata” WGBH, Boston (simulcast) Flick Out, WGBH, Boston “Video Variations” WGBH, Boston |
| 1970-71 | Speaker for U.S.I.A. in Media with Multi-Media Presentation Israel (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem); Cyprus (Nicosia); Iran (Shiraz- Persepolis Art Festival, Teheran); Lebanon (Beirut); Greece (Athens); Turkey (Istanbul, Adana Film Festival); France (Paris); England (London) |
| 1971 | Flick Out, WGBH, Boston “Feedback” Syracuse, New York and University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (Date?) |
| 1972 | The Computer Generation: Stan VanDerBeek, MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts “Video Variations,” WGBH-TVaired nationally; Boston Symphony CBS Camera Three, “Computer Generation” “Towards the Year 2000” ABC television Murals by Telephone, M.I.T. to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
| 1973 | College Collidoscope, CBS, Tampa, Florida Interview by Ed Emshwiller, recorded 15 December 1973, SUNY at Buffalo, Media Center, Inc. |
| 1974 | Baltimore Museum: video/film Hampshire College as visiting film artist, Summer Institute Underground Filmmakers, ETV, Madison, Wisconsin |
| 1975 | Maryland Art Institute, multi-screen lecture University of New York at Buffalo: video/film Video Anthology OMS Video and Films, New York Media Artist-in-Residence, “Art Park,” New York Participant “Computer” films, Paris New American Cinema, with Dr. O’Grady, Buffalo, New York |
| 1976 | Participant, Computer Animation conference, University of Washington, Seattle ON/OFF Gallery, Seattle Television Graphics Conference, OMS, Educational TV, Nebraska “Art/Transition” for M.I.T. Art and Technology conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts TNT (The New Theatre), UMBC Washington Projects for the Arts, “Mind/Art” University of Washington, Seattle Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Vanderbilt University UMBC- “Progressions” “Art and Technology” at Towson State University Art Gallery Baltimore Film Festival |
| 1977 | Brooklyn College Film Festival Commission for Performance Piece: City of Baltimore “Collisions” WGBH, Boston |
| 1978 | “Copy Art: The Art of Xerox” Interview: “Fast Forward,” Canadian television Light Mural of Office Windows, IBM building, Baltimore |
| 1979 | “Retrospective” Kennedy Center, Washington (AFI Theatre) National External Review Panelist for Art Department, Rutgers University |
| 1980 | “Retrospective” Museum of Modern Art, New York “Stream-Screen” installation and performance at Whitney Museum, New Yor Multi-Media performance, Guggenheim Museum, New York Documentary film by KET television, Lexington, Kentucky |
| 1981 | Retrospective and “Steam-Screen” installation, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis Toronto “Computer/Culture” exhibition – installation of “Steam-Screens” Screening and Seminar, “Art Works” at University of Michigan, Detroit “Living Artists of Tulsa” Screening and Workshop, Tulsa, Oklahoma Panelist – Super 8 Film Festival, Toronto Panelist for National Computer Graphics Assn.- “Art and the Computer, Baltimore Lecturer 2nd Sky Art Conference, Linz, Austria |
| 1958 | Bronze medal “Mankinda” and “What Who How” Brussels International Experimental Film Competition, Brussels World Fair |
| 1959 | Award of Merit, “What Who How” Creative Film Foundation, New York Participant: Venice Film Festival |
| 1960 | Award of Distinction – “Science Friction”, Creative Film Foundation, New York |
| 1961 | First prize- animation: “Mankinda”, Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany |
| 1964 | Lincoln Center Film Festival- “Skullduggery” London Film Festival- “Skullduggery” Prizes at Midwest and Ann Arbor Film Festivals- “Breathdeath” Award Winner at The Experimental Film Festival, Brussels |
| 1967 | “See Saw Seems”- Lincoln Center Film Festival and London Film Festival Interview and participant on “Literarisches Collequium” – Berlin, W.G. Second Prize, “Man and his World,” Computer film Expo ’67, Montreal, Canada |
| 1968 | First prize, animation: “Superimpostion”, Mannheim, W.G. |
| 1971 | First prize, experimental film “Symmetricks,” Hawaii Film Festival |
| 1974 | AFI Independent Filmmakers Award |
| 1978 | First prize, experimental film “Poem Field #7” Washington International Film Festival |
| 1980 | Short film selected for N.Y. International Film Festival, Lincoln Center, “Euclidean Illusions” Maryland Arts Council award for “Media Art” Guggenheim Award for Media Art |
| 1982 | Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria New World Festival of the Arts, Miami, Florida Maryland Filmmaker Award: Baltimore International Film Festival Arts and Humanities Award, State University of Pennsylvania in Computer Graphics |
| 1963-64 | Ford Foundation for Experimental Films |
| 1965-66 | Rockefeller Grant for non-verbal communication Film Studies |
| 1969-70 | Rockefeller Grant for Experimental Artist in Television at WGBH, Boston |
| 1970 | New York state CAPS Grant for Performance of “Cine Dreams, 1970” |
| 1973 | NEA Grant for Experiments in Video, K E T educational TV, Kentucky |
| 1974 | Rockefeller Grant, Experiments in Video, WGBH, Boston |
| 1975-76 | NEA “Regional Media Center” – UMBC |
| 1977-78 | NEA “Regional Media Center” – UMBC |
| 1977 | NEA Grant for Experimental film and video |
| 1978 | NEA Grant for Experimental film and video NEA Grant for performance and research, “Artist and the Computer” and “Services to the Field” |
| 1978-79 | NEA “In-Residence” program |
| 1981-82 | NEA (Individual grant) for Computer Animation research |
| 1982 | Jewish Federation of Cleveland: Experimental Video” |
| 1963-65 | Columbia University, New York; Associate Professor in animation and film production |
| 1967 | University of Southern California; Film artist-in-residence University of Illinois; Film artist-in-residence |
| 1967-73 | New York State University, Stoney Point, NY; Associate Professor in Film Projects |
| 1968 | University of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Associate Professor in Film Projects Colgate University, Film artist-in-residence University of Washington, Seattle; Associate Professor of Filmmaking |
| 1969-70 | Center For Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA WGBH-TV, Boston, MA, Artist in Residence |
| 1970 | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
| 1971-72 | University of Hawaii Art Department and KHCT Educational Television station, Honolulu California Institute of the Arts, Film artist-in-residence |
| 1972 | New College, Sarasota, Florida U.F.S.C Durham, New Hampshire Center for Understanding Media, Buffalo, New York |
| 1972-75 | University of South Florida, Tampa Special Media seminar for USIA, Washington DC |
| 1975 | WNET Artist-in-TV laboratory, New York ARTPARK, Lewiston, New York University of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; Art and film Professor |
| 1979 | International Communications Agency, Washington D.C. NASA, Houston, TX |
| 1980 | Video: K E T educational television, Lexington, Kentucky |
| 1982 | Computer artist-in-residence: State University of Pennsylvania |
| 1983 | Computer artist-in-residence: K E T educational television, Lexington, Kentucky (NEA) |
Works
References
- Berkeley, Edmund C., ed. 1967. Computers and Automation '67. [unknown address]:Edmund C. Berkeley
- Nake, Frieder 1974. Ästhetik als Informationsverarbeitung. Grundlagen und Anwendungen der Informatik im Bereich ästhetischer Produktion und Kritik. Wien, New York:Springer
- Nake, Frieder 2010. Paragraphs on Computer Art, Past and Present. In: Cat 2010: Ideas Before Their Time: Connecting the Past and Present in Computer Art. Swinton, UK:British Computer Society
- Noll, A. Michael 1970. Art ex Machina. In: IEEE Student Journal. [unknown address]:IEEE
- Noll, A. Michael 1994. The Beginnings of Computer Art in the United States: A Memoir. In: Leonardo. Cambridge, MA:The MIT Press
Illustrations
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