Stan vanderbeeks moviedrome 1965 is one of the most important projects created at the intersection of art, video, and digital technology. Stan vanderbeeks moviedrome shown in arsenal, venice biennale 20. For arning, one of the key benefits of surveying the past is to identify forebears and precursors. His multimedia practices forecasted many facets of later iterations of contemporary artnetwork aesthetics, internet art, graphical user interfaces, and appropriations of desktop computing.
Kennedy center, washington, dc screening september 911, 1971 stan vanderbeek film retrospective, american embassy auditorium, london, united kingdom october 4, 1971 1972 cinema 72, albright knox art gallery, buffalo, ny january 26, 1972. Vanderbeek envisionedmoviedromeas the prototype for a communications system a global network of moviedromes linked to orbiting satellites that would store and transmit images. Stan vanderbeeks moviedrome and expanded cinema leonardo. Combining a close analysis of vanderbeeks films, drawings, collages, photographs, and writings with a lucid assessment of the historical debates and practices of 1960s multimedia art, the book s originality lies not only in the. Combining a close analysis of vanderbeeks films, drawings, collages, photographs, and writings with a lucid assessment of the historical debates and practices of 1960s multimedia art, the book s originality lies not only in the sheer information it yields, but. The book brings new perspectives to bear on the work of established american pioneers such as carolee schneemann and stan vanderbeek as well as. This book is the first indepth study of stan vanderbeeks works and ideas on the larger practice of 1960s avantgarde, and subsequent emergence of new media art and digital culture. He played a fictionalized version of himself on the cult abc sitcom dont trust the b in apartment 23, starred in csi. The mid 1960s was an exciting period in the application of digital computer animation to artistic purposes. Motion pictures pictures in motion seem most suited to the metaphysics of change, to life in motion, and as such cinema is becoming the most significant of art forms. Vanderbeek archive, film department, museum of modern art, new york, unpaginated. A pioneer in the development of experimental film and liveaction animation techniques, stan vanderbeek achieved widespread recognition in the american avantgarde cinema.
Join facebook to connect with stan van beek and others you may know. He has a brother named jared who was born in 1979, and a sister named juliana who was born in 1981. In 1965, the experimental filmmaker stan vanderbeek 19271984 unveiled hismoviedrome, made from the repurposed top of a grain silo. Vanderbeek envisioned moviedrome as the prototype for a. American independent filmmaker stan vanderbeek 19271984 was one of the first to extend film projection into multimedia spectacle and to embrace video and computer technology.
In 1970 he published the influential book, expanded cinema. Vanderbeek, stan 1969 unpublished transcript of vanderbeeks talk at the conference autobiography and the american cinema, organized by gerry ogrady, center for media study, state university of new york, buffalo. Enjoy unlimited access to tv and movies from all your favourite actors on all your devices. Bill arning, joao ribas, jane farver, jacob proctor, gloria sutton, michael zyrd, stan vanderbeek.
Stan vanderbeeks synthetic multimedia moviedrome of the 1960s. Cyber as fbi special agent elijah mundo, and as matt bromley on the fx drama pose. Intercom and expanded cinema john and james whitney, audiovisual music sheldon renan, expanded cinema from an introduction to the american underground film week xii apr 17 screening. Stan vanderbeek, a leading independent film maker, died of cancer wednesday at howard county general hospital in columbia, md. Throughout his career vanderbeek collaborated with the likes of claes oldenburg, allan kaprow, merce cunningham and yvonne rainer.
Stan vanderbeeks moviedrome and expanded cinema by gloria sutton 2015, mit press with a screening of stan vanderbeek. Cultural center, tel aviv and jerusalem, israel august 1971 the john f. American independent filmmaker stan vanderbeek 19271984 was one of the first to extend. Women arent the only ones compelled to share their stories in the wake of the harvey weinstein scandal.
Stan vanderbeeks moviedrome and expanded cinema in 1965, the experimental filmmaker stan vanderbeek 19271984 unveiled his moviedrome, made from the repurposed top of a grain silo. Digital files courtesy the estate of stan vanderbeek and canyon cinema. Vanderbeek, a filmmaker and a pioneer of what would soon be termed expanded cinema, was deeply interested in technology, which he. Vanderbeek was a pioneer in the growing fields of movie art and expanded cinema during the 1960s and 70s. Stan vanderbeeks moviedrome and expanded cinema 2015, is that the artists work anticipates a contemporary network aesthetic, modeling new relationships among artistic and communications media. Get all the latest updates on your favorite movies from new releases to timeless classics, get the scoop on moviefone. The early 1960s were mostly scientific and engineering animation, with computer animation at bell telephone laboratories, inc. An advocate of the application of a utopian fusion of art and technology, he began making films in 1955.
A key thesis of gloria suttons recent book, the experience machine. Stan vanderbeeks moviedrome and expanded cinema leonardo book series by gloria sutton 201502 gloria sutton on. Film on the cutting edge the legendary experimental filmmakers work is the subject of a careerspanning retrospective at the contemporary arts museum in houston. Stan vanderbeeks moviedrome and expanded cinema author. Combining a close analysis of vanderbeeks films, drawings, collages, photographs, and writings with a lucid assessment of the historical debates and practices of 1960s multimedia art, the book s originality lies not only in the sheer information it yields, but also in the questions. Stan vanderbeeks moviedrome and expanded cinema leonardo book series by sutton, gloria 2015 hardcover on. This book is the first indepth study of stan vanderbeeks works and ideas on the larger practice of. John musilli followed by a discussion between gloria sutton and kerry tribe. These associations lead him to experiment with what mediaarts theorist gene youngblood proposed as expanded cinema. Gloria sutton in 1965, the experimental filmmaker stan vanderbeek 19271984 unveiled his moviedrome, made from the repurposed top of a grain silo. The experience machine is an illuminating and authoritative study of expanded cinema and one of its key artists. Stan vanderbeek art monographs and museum exhibition catalogs. Stan vanderbeek, computer generated animation film frame, 19771978, 3m colorincolor system 1 copy machine print from blackandwhite 35mm film still, 11 12h x 14 12w in. Stan vanderbeek january 6, 1927 september 19, 1984 was an american experimental filmmaker known for his collage works.
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