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Stan Vanderbeek

Stan VanDerBeek was born in 1927 and died in 1984. He studied at Cooper Union and Black Mountain College, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Cooper Union in 1972. Among his numerous awards are grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Award. He was artist-in-residence at WGBH and the University of South Florida, and professor of art at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

His work was the subject of retrospectives at The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. 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.

http://v2v.cc/node/109 is a link to a documentary film "Vanderbeek Revisited" by Steven Hutchings.

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"Stan Vanderbeek." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/stan-vanderbeek.

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Stan VanDerBeek (1927–1984) studied at Cooper Union and Black Mountain College; his awards included grants from the Rockefeller, Guggenheim and Ford foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Award. He began making films in 1955 and in the 1960s produced theatrical and multimedia pieces and computer animation often in collaboration with Bell Telephone Laboratories. In the 1970s he constructed a Movie Drome in Stony Point, New York and pursued multimedia experiments including early computer graphics; a documentary Vanderbeek Revisited by Steven Hutchings is linked at http://v2v.cc/node/109.

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