Stan VanDerBeek
Stan VanDerBeek
Born 1927, New York, NY
Died 1984, Baltimore, MD
Education
1952 Certificate of Art, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
1957 Doctorate (Honorary), Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC
1972 Doctorate (Honorary), The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2019
VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek curated by Sara VanDerBeek & Chelsea Spengemann, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, Asheville, NC
5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contempoary Art, Ural, Russia
2018
Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Poemfield, Document Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media: An Operative Canon, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Revisiting Black Mountain, Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich, Switzerland
A Page From My Intimate Journal (Part 1), Gordon Robichaux Gallery, New York, NY
New Talent, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY
2017
Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 19591–1989, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Electronic Superhighway: From Experiments in Art and Technology to Art After the Internet, Arquitectura Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal
Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980, The Met Breuer, New York, NY
Illuminados, SESC Belenzinho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Merce Cunningham: Common Time, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Engineering Utopia, Urban Arts Space, The Ohio State Univeristy, Columbus, OH
Jon Rafman / Stan VanDerBeek, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, CA
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City 1952-1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY
Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College, curated by Julie J. Thomson, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Art Basel, The Box, Feature & Unlimited section, Basel, Switzerland
2016
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
impromptu, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens, Curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Sprueth Magers Berlin, Germany
Electronic Superhighway: From Experiments in Art and Technology to Art After the Internet, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens, Curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Sprueth Magers Berlin, Germany
2015
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, travels to: Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York, New York Historical Society Museum and Library, New York, NY
Cosa Mentale: Art et Télépathie au XX Siécle, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Lorraine, France
Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to The Digital Sublime, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Stan VanDerBeek:Poemfield, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York, NY
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, travels to: Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York, New York Historical Society Museum and Library, New York, NY
Cosa Mentale: Art et Télépathie au XX Siécle, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Lorraine, France
Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to The Digital Sublime, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Stan VanDerBeek:Poemfield, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York, NY
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2014
Stan VanDerBeek:Poemfield, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
The Crystal Palace, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
Type Motion, ZKM Karlsruhe and FACT Liverpool, travelled to National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2015).
2013
Go! You sure? Yeah., LUMA/Westbau POOL, Zurich, Switzerland
Xerography, firstsite, Essex, United Kingdom
Venice Biennale 2013, The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice, Italy
Insomnia, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
2012
Ghosts in the Machine, New Museum, New York, NY
Historical Box, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
Stan VanDerBeek, American Contemporary, New York, NY
Snapshots of the City, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria, travelled to: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (2012); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2013); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2013).
2011
Stan VanDerBeek – The Cultural Intercom, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, travelled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
The Historical Box, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Take Me To Your Leader, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Germany
Drawing with Code: Works from Anne and Michael Spalter Collection, De Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2010
Changing Channels, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Nachleben, The Goethe-Institut, New York, NY
Gwangju Biennale 2010, 10000 Lives, Gwangju, South Korea
Take Me to Your Leader! The Great Escape Into Space, The Museum of Contemporary
Art/ Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
Fax, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, SAR
Fax, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2009
Stan VanDerBeek, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
FAX, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Sam Moyer and Lesley Vance and Stan VanDerBeek, The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
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; Galerie Impaire, Paris, France
Stan VanDerBeek, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY
2007
Genesis: Life at the End of the Information Age, Central Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
bit international–[Nove] Tendencije—Computer and Visual Research (Darko Fritz, curator), Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
1960s Electric Arts: From Kinetic Sculpture to Media Environments, Seattle Art Museum Downtown, Seattle, WA
2004
4D in the Filmmuseum, Dutch Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
X-Screen, Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s, Museum of Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
War! Protest in America 1965-2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003
Stan VanDerBeek, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY
2001
Stan VanDerBeek: A Space Art Visionary of the Sixties and Seventies, Outer Space-Cyber Space Art Workshop, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
1996
Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1989
Bits of Art, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
1986
ACM SIGGRAPH Art Show, Dallas, TX
1984
Fluxus, etc.: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
The American Independent Cinema: 1958-1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
New American Video Art: A Historical Survey, 1967-1980, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, travelled to: Video Culture Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1984); University of California, San Diego, CA (1985); Institute of North American Studies, Barcelona, Spain; University of Houston, Houston, TX; Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO; Williams College, Williamstown, MA; University of California, Riverside, CA (1986)
1983
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1982
Computer Art Exhibit and Festival, Sinclair Auditorium Fountain Area, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA (January 29-March 8, 1982)
Art by Computer & Video, The Museum of the Surreal & Fantastique, New York, NY
1981
Computer/Culture [installation of Steam-Screens], Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Retrospective and Steam-Screen installation, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Photo/Electric Arts Exhibition ’81, T-Court, Village by the Grange, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (November 1981)
1978
Light Mural of Office Windows, IBM Building, Baltimore, MD.
Copy Art: The Art of Xerox
1976
Machine Art: An Exhibit of “Inter-Graphich” by Professor Stan VanDerBeek, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Library Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Technological Art, Towson State College Art Gallery (Christopher Bartlett, Gallery Director) (March 20-April 11, 1976)
New Work in Abstract Video Imagery, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (December 1, 1976-January 2, 1977)
1974
An Exhibition of the University of South Florida College of Fine Arts, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (October 3- November 17, 1974)
1972-74
Multiple Interaction Team, MIT, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL (November 15, 1972-January 15, 1973); The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA; The Exploratorium at The Palace of Arts and Sciences, San Francisco, CA (February 8-April 8, 1973); Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (May 1-July 1, 1973); The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA (November 1-December 31, 1973); Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL (January 28-March 17, 1974)
1973
33rd Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
New Photographics #73, Fine Arts Building, Central Central Washington College, Ellensburg, WA (May 7-18, 1973)
1972
Murals by Telephone, MIT to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1971
Information Center, Bienal de São Paulo with the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, São Paulo, Brazil
1970
Software, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (January 1970)
Vision and Television, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, 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
1969
Found Forms, Intermedia Festival, Tokyo, Japan
1968
Cybernetic Serendipity, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom (Jasia Reichardt, curator), traveled to Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (opened January 11, 1969)
The Projected Image, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1968
The World of Stanley VanDerBeek, The Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1961
Bewogen, Beweging, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (March 10-April 17, 1961)
1960
New Medium-New Forms, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1954
VanDerBeek: Heat Paintings, Polaroids, Oils, Boylston Street Print Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Moving Image Programs
2015
Experimental Animation, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Stan VanDerBeek: Newsreel of Dreams, Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Movie-Drome, New Forms Festival, Vancouver, BC
Stan VanDerBeek: Expanded Cinema, Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden
2009
Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2005
Newsreel of Dreams 1, Independent Film Show 5th Edition, EM-Arts, Naples, Italy
1960s Electric Arts: From Kinetic Sculpture to Media Environments, Seattle Art Museum Downtown, Seattle, WA (March 2, 2005)
2004
History from the Avant-Garde Film: Stan VanDerBeek, Balagan Experimental Film & Video Series, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
May 2004 Monthly Selection, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
2002
Crime and Punishment, Balagan Experimental Film & Video Series, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
1997
Centre national du cinema, Paris, France (April 29, 1997)
1995
9èmes rencontres du cinema indépendant de Châteauroux, Châteauroux, France (December 10, 1995)
1993
Kunst or Die [screening], Zonmééé, Montreuil, France
1985
ARTSCAPE ’85, Stan VanDerBeek Retrospective, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (July 16, 1985)
1984
Personal Cinema Program, Winter Series 1984, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
1982
A Program of Films By and With Stan VanDerBeek, Beaumont Cinema, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (June 10-11, 1982)
1981
Film and Video Pioneer Stan VanDerBeek screenings, The Boston Film/Video Foundation, Boston, MA (May 2, 1981)
Highlights of the Baltimore Film Festival: Stan VanDerBeek, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (May 21-22, 1981)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (October 15, 1981)
The Communication Interface of Motion Pictures, Auditorium, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (November 20, 1981)
Art Works [screening and seminar], University of Michigan, Detroit, MI
Living Artists of Tulsa [screening and workshop], Tulsa, OK
1980
Cineprobe Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1979
Retrospective, Stan VanDerBeek, The American Film Institute Theatre at the John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, DC (May 23, 1979)
1978
Stan VanDerBeek, Berks Filmmakers, Inc., Reading, PA (June 10, 1978)
Video and Film Series, Global Village, New York, NY (December 8, 1978)
1977
Stan VanDerBeek Retrospective, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY (January 7-9, 1977)
Independent Film-Maker Stan VanDerBeek, Pittsburgh Film-Makers, Pittsburgh, PA (November 12, 1977)
1976
Film Forum, New York, NY (October 4, 1976)
ON/OFF Gallery, Seattle, WA
TNT (The New Theatre), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Mind/Art, Washington Projects for the Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Progressions, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
1975
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY (January 4-5, 1975)
Stan VanDerBeek: Films and Videos, Intermedia Church, Garnerville, NY (October 31, 1975)
University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY [video/film screening]
Video Anthology OMS Video and Films, New York, NY
Participant, Computer films, Paris, France
1974
Stan VanDerBeek and Local Independent Filmmakers and Video Artists, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (August 6, 1974).
1974 Summer Institute in the Making and Understanding of Film and Media, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (August 19, 1974)
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, United Kingdom (September 6, 1974)
Video Program at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY (December 6-7, 1974)
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Underground Filmmakers, ETV, Madison, WI
1973
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (March 24, 1973)
The Kitchen, New York, NY (April 7, 1973)
Selected New Computer Films: Stan VanDerBeek, Theatre Vanguard, West Hollywood, CA (April 26, 1973)
The New American Filmmakers Series, Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1972
Cinema ’72, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (January 26, 1972)
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (March 6, 1972)
Bininger Theatre, Florida Presbyterian College, St. Petersburg, FL (March 15, 1972)
Millennium, New York, NY (June 24, 1972)
1971
University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (January 17-19, 1971)
Stan VanDerBeek, U.S. Cultural Center, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel (August 1971)
The John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, DC [screening] (September 9-11, 1971)
Stan VanDerBeek Film Retrospective, American Embassy Auditorium, London, United Kingdom (October 4, 1971)
1970
Poemfield No. 1, part of Program Three of the Kinetic Art 2, Philharmonic Hall Box Office, New York, NY (April 10, 1970)
New York University, New York, NY [screening] (May 1970)
Program presented while in residence at The University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (June 25, 1970)
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA [screening] (December 1, 1970)
1969
Refocus [screening/lecture], The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (March 28-29, 1969)
Institute of Design of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (May 2, 1969)
1968
10 Tage New American Cinema, Park-Lichtspiele, Gelnhausen, Germany (June 12, 1968)
The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (August 20, 1968)
Stan VanDerBeek: An Evening of Films, Flims, Flics, Film-Maker’s Cinematheque, New York, NY
1967
Feedback #3, Hancock Auditorium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (April 10, 1967)
Stan VanDerBeek: Mixed Media, Cinema ’67, The Union Film Society, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (April 26, 1967)
1966
RE: VISION and screenings, The Film Society, New York, NY (September 28, 1966)
1965
Vision of ’65, Lincoln Center, New York, NY; Berlin, Germany; Vienna, Austria; Copenhagen, Denmark; Carbondale, IL
Screening of Breathdeath, Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia (June 1965)
STA Allerton; On Film, STA Allerton Design Conference, Robert Allerton Park, Monticello, IL (October 1-3, 1965)
An Evening of Experimental Film, Cinema Club, New York, NY (November 5, 1965)
1965-66 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, New York, NY
1964
Major Films of Stan VanDerBeek, presented by the Experimental Film Society, Washington Square Theatre, New York, NY
Screening of Wheeeels and Breathdeath, Park Square Cinema, Boston, MA (May 9, 1964)
1960
A Retrospective Showing the Works of Stan VanDerBeek, The Charles Theatre, New York, NY
Films-Flims-Flics, presented by The American Underground Cinema, The Living Theatre, New York, NY (July 24, 1960)
1958
Screening of Mankinda, Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles, Competition du Film Experimental (April 25, 1958)
1985
The Sixteenth Annual Baltimore International Film Festival: A Tribute to Stan VanDerBeek with special guest Stan Brakhage, The Baltimore Film Forum, Baltimore, MD (April 1985)
1981
Stan VanDerBeek Retrospective, The Carolina Film and Video Festival, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (April 3-5, 1981
1982
Computer Art Exhibit and Festival, Sinclair Auditorium Fountain Area, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA (January 29-March 8, 1982)
World-Wide Video Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
1977
Brooklyn College Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
1976
Light Brings Us News of the Universe, The New Theatre Festival, Baltimore, MD (June 1976)
Baltimore Film Festival, Baltimore, MD
1975
Annual Avant-Garde Festival of New York, NY (September 27, 1975)
1974
Symmetricks, screened at Cannes Film Festival, Palais des Festivals, Grand Salle, Paris, France (May 15, 1974)
1973
Multi-Screen Image-Event Presents a UAC-Creative Arts Festival with Artist, Filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek, National Science Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI (February 20, 1973)
Stan VanDerBeek, 3 films including: Panels for the Walls of the World, Fastext, Festival of Independent Avant-Garde Film, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, United Kingdom (September 5, 1973)
1972
The North Carolina Film Festival (May 17, 1972)
The Kitchen Video Festival, The Kitchen, New York, NY (June 23, 1972)
Second International Festival of Cinema, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (October 18, 1972)
1971
Annual Avant-Garde Festival of New York, The 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY (November 19, 1971)
1969
Found Forms, Intermedia Festival, Tokyo, Japan
1967
Film Festival, London, United Kingdom
New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
1965
Mannheim Film Festival, Mannheim, Germany
Midwest Film Festival, Chicago, IL
1964
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
1961
Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
1960
Bergamo Film Festival, Bergamo, Italy
1959
Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy
Television
1980
Documentary film by KET Television, Lexington, KY
1978
Fast Forward, interview, Canadian TV
1977
Collisions, WGBH, Boston, MA
1973
College Collidoscope, CBS, Tampa, FL
1972
Camera Three, “Computer Generation” (March 19, 1972)
Video Variations, WGBH-TV [aired nationally]; Boston Symphony, Boston, MA
Towards the Year 2000, ABC
1971
Flick Out, WGBH, Boston, MA
1970
Violence Sonata, WGBH, Boston, MA [simulcast]
Flick Out, WGBH, Boston, MA
Video Variations, WGBH, Boston, MA
1969
Feedback, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1968
“VanDerBeekiaana.” Camera Three, by Robert Herridge, CBS
1966
Channel 2, The Underground Comes up for Air...an Electric Collage...by Stan VanDerBeek (February 27, 1966)
1965
Channel 4, The Underground Takes to the Air: VanDerBeek tells what your (sic) in for, he’s up to, the why for? flics–flims-fill’ums on homey tv!!!! (October 23, 1965)
Video Screenings
1985
A Tribute to Stan VanDerBeek: Selected Works 1968-1984, Anthology Video Program, New York, NY (Winter 1985)
1981
Film and Video Pioneer Stan VanDerBeek Screenings, The Boston Film/Video Foundation, Boston, MA (May 2, 1981)
1978
Video Art, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY [two generations of VanDerBeeks] (January-February 1978)
Video and Film Series, Global Village, New York, NY (December 8, 1978)
1975
Computer Generation, The New Baltimore Independent Film Museum, Baltimore, MD (October 25, 1975)
Stan VanDerBeek: Films and Videos, Intermedia Church, Garnerville, NY (October 31, 1975)
University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY [video/film screening]
Video Anthology OMS Video and Films, New York, NY
1974
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY (December 6-7, 1974)
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1972
Video Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (January 8-12, 1972)
Intermedia works (“Expanded Cinema,” “Culture: Intercom,” Experimental Theatre)
2015
Cine Dreams, ArtRio, Fundação Planetário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014
Cine Dreams: Stan VanDerBeek, Jeronimo Voss, Katie Paterson, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi and MIART, Civico Planetario Ulrico Hoepli, Milan, Italy
2009
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (October 2009)
1997
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
1981
Retrospective and Steam-Screen installation, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (October 15, 1981)
Centre national du cinema, Paris, France (April 29 1997)
1980
Stan VanDerBeek, CHAMBERS in nine parts, part of the First Intermedia Art Festival Performance Series, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (February 3, 1980)
1979
Steam Screens, film performance in collaboration with Joan Brigham, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (November 27 and December 4, 1979)
1978
As We See it: Introducing Thirty-Six New Holographic Works, Museum of Holography, New York, NY (November 30, 1978)
1977
Under Aquarius, in collaboration with Joan Brigham, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Stan VanDerBeek’s Steam Screen: A Cinematic Mirage, International Film Festival sponsored by the Baltimore Film Forum, MD (May 1977)
The Theatre of Light and Shadow, City of Baltimore Commission, Baltimore, MD (June 1977)
1976
Under Aquarius, in collaboration with Joan Brigham, Alumni Pool, MIT, Cambridge, MA (March 14, 1976)
1975
Fog, Mist, and Dreams with Joan Brigham, ARTTRANSITION symposium, MIT, Cambridge, MA [projection of computer-generated graphics on live steam in MIT alleyway between CAVS and MIT Chapel]
Stan VanDerBeek projection of film on steam in the courtyard, Chicago, IL (December 11, 1975)
1973
Stan VanDerBeek: Cine Naps, USF Planetarium, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (February 16 and 23, 1973)
1972
Cine Dreams: Future Cinema of The Mind, Strasenburgh Planetarium, Rochester, NY (February 25-27, 1972)
1969
Crosstalk [interview and performance], Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka, Japan
Found Forms, Intermedia Festival, Tokyo, Japan
1967
Street Meet, [“multi-media image/sound event”] Design-In, Central Park Mall, New York, NY (May 12, 1967)
1963-65
Conceived and built Movie-Drome, Stony Point, NY
Educational Platforms
Performances:
1960
Film of Snapshots from the City, performance at Judson Gallery with Claes Oldenburg, New York, NY
Lectures:
1981
Sky Art Conference, “Future Perspectives,” Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA (September 29, 1981)
Art and the Computer, Baltimore, panelist for National Computer Graphics Association
Art Works [screening and seminar], University of Michigan, Detroit, MI
2nd Sky Art Conference, lecturer, Linz, Austria
1976
Summer Institute in the Making and Understanding of Film and Media, Center for Media Study at University of Buffalo, NY (July 10, 1976)
1975
Maryland Art Institute [multi-screen lecture], Baltimore, MD
1974
The Future of the Image Lecture Series Directed by Stan VanDerBeek, The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (Spring 1974)
The Film Maker Featuring Stan VanDerBeek, Western Carolina University, Cullowehee, NC (April 29-30, 1974)
Hampshire College, Summer Institute [visiting film artist], Amherst, MA
1972
See Me: Generative Systems Presents Stan VanDerBeek, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 13, 1972)
The Computer Generation: Stan VanDerBeek, MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge, MA
Florida Technological University Village Center (now University of Central Florida), Orlando Florida
1971
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA (February 1971)
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (February 11-12, 1971)
New England Festival of the Arts, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture Series, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (April 7, 1971)
Feedback, Syracuse, NY and University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (May 3, 1971)
The New England School of Art, Boston, MA (December 9, 1971)
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)
1970
Visit to Haverford College, Haverford, PA (May 8, 1970).
1969
Cine-Probe, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Annual Convention of the Illinois Audio-Visual Association, Chicago, IL [featured speaker] (March 5-7, 1969)
Refocus [screening/lecture], The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (March 28-29, 1969)
1967
Art Directors Club, Indianapolis, IN (January 1967)
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (January 1967)
Stan VanDerBeek and Len Lye Informal Group Discussion, Contemporary Voices in the Arts, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY (February 14, 1967)
Contemporary Voices presented by The Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, New York, NY (February 25, 1967)
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (April 1967)
Summer Artist Series, State University College at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY (June 12, 1967)
1966
American Craft Council, Minneapolis, MN (Spring 1966)
Wagner College, Staten Island, NY (July 1966)
Fairleigh Dickinson, Teaneck, NJ (September 1966)
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (October 1966)
Harvard Club, New York, NY
Design Conference, Aspen, CO
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Rockland Community College, Suffern, NY
Conferences
1979
National External Review Panelist for Art Department, Rutgers University, NJ
1976
Computer Animation Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Television Graphics Conference, OMS, Educational TV, NE
Art/Transition for MIT Art and Technology conference, Cambridge, MA
1975
New American Cinema, with Dr. Gerald O’Grady, Buffalo, NY
1974
OPEN CIRCUITS: An International Conference on the Future of Television [Stan VanDerBeek: Television as Dream/Environment, Social Imagestics: The Artist in Television], Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January 23-25, 1974)
1973
Summer Institute in the Making, Knowing and Judging of Film/Media, sponsored by the Center for Media Study, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (May 29 - July 13, 1973)
Arts Education and the Challenge of the Future, Institute for the Study of Art in Education at Bank Street College of Education, New York, NY (November 9-10, 1973)
Celebration of Literature II: Literature and the Film, presented by the University of South Florida Department of Speech, Tampa, FL (November 15-17, 1973)
1972
Art & Science Symposium, Chicago New Art Association, Chicago, IL (November 15, 1972)
1971
First National Computer Art Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (October 22-23, 1971)
1970
New Media Symposium, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA (May 11-16, 1970)
Toward an Emphasis on the Computer and the Fine Arts in the 1980s, round table discussion, Hilton Hotel, New York, NY (September 2, 1970)
The Computer With Man As Creative Director, presented by the AIGA Book Clinic and McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY (November 25, 1970)
American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA [seminar] (December 8-11, 1970)
1968
Participant on Literarisches Collequium, Berlin, Germany
1967
Design Conference, Aspen, CO
International Congress on Art and Religion, New York, NY
National Council of Planning, Washington, DC
Teaching/Artist-in-residence
1983
KET Educational Television, Lexington, KY, Computer Artist-in-residence (National Endowment for the Arts)
1982
Computer Artist-in-Residence: Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
1980
Video: KET Educational Television, Lexington, KY
1979
International Communications Agency, Washington, DC
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Houston, TX
1975-84
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Professor of Art and Film
1975
WNET Artist-in-TV laboratory, New York, NY
ARTPARK, Lewiston, NY
1972-75
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Special Media seminar for United States Information Agency, Washington, DC
1972
New College, Sarasota, FL
University Film Study Center, Durham, NH
Center for Understanding Media, Buffalo, NY
1971-72
University of Hawaii Art Department and KHCT Educational Television Station, Honolulu, HI
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, Film Artist-in-Residence
1970
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
1969-70
Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1968
University of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Associate Professor in Film Projects
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Film Artist-in-Residence
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Associate Professor of Filmmaking
WGBH-TV, Boston, MA, Artist-in-Residence
1967-73
State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, Associate Professor in Film Projects
1967
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Film Artist-in-Residence
University of Illinois, IL, Film Artist-in-Residence
1963-65
Columbia University, New York, NY, Associate Professor in Animation and Film Production
Selected Bibliography
2017
Goldstein, Andrew & Halperin, Julia. “The 10 Most Extraordinary Artworks at Art Basel Unlimited 2017,” Artnet news, June 13, 2017.
Harris, Gareth. “Art Basel’s Unlimited sector: five highlights,” Financial Times, June 9, 2017.
Eastham, Ben. “The continued expansion of Art Basel,” Apollo, June 7, 2017.
Martinez, Christina Catherine. “They Had Whole Buildings for That (Now We Use Diapers),” Artslant, March 6, 2017.
Davis, Ben. “How Merce Cunningham Danced Art History in a New Direction,” Artnet news, April 17, 2017.
Pangburn, DJ. “Two Artists Ask, Is Virtual Reality Becoming ‘A Nightmare You Can’t Wake Up From?’” Vice: Creators, February 1, 2017.
Spengemann, Chelsea. “Fires Blazing on the Moon,” Affidavit, January 16, 2017.
Balsom, Erika. “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016.” Artforum, January 2017.
2016
Pinkerton, Nick. “Dreamlands.” Frieze, Dec. 7, 2016.
Uroskie, Andrew. “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art.” 4Columns, December 2, 2016.
Budick, Ariella. “Art and tech: lost in a sea of screens.” Financial Times, December 2, 2016.
Smith, Roberta. “Diving Into Movie Palaces of the Mind at the Whitney.” New York Times, December 1, 2016.
Jones, Kristin M. “‘Dreamlands’ at the Whitney Museum: Between Illusion and Reality.” Wall Street Journal, Nov. 1, 2016.
Delson, Susan. “At the Whitney, a Different Take on the Moving Image.” Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2016.
Lucca, Violet. “Yesterday’s Tommorows: The Cold War ecstasies of 1960s computer animation.” Film Comment 52, no. 4 (July/August 2016): 15.
Noll, A. Michael. “First-Hand: The VanDerBeek-Knowlton Movies.” Leonardo, May 5, 2016.
2015
Goldsmith, Leo. “Stan VanDerBeek: Andrea Rosen Gallery 2.” Art Agenda.com, June 16, 2015.
Nisbet, James. “Stan VanDerBeek: The Box.” Artforum (February 2015).
Smith, Roberta. “Review: Stan VanDerBeek at Andrea Rosen Gallery.” New York Times, June 1, 2015.
Smith, Roberta. “The Best in Art of 2015.” New York Times, Dec. 9, 2015.
Sutton, Gloria. The Experience Machine: Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2015.
2014
“Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Exhibitions Across the United States.” Hyperallergic.com, December 26, 2014.
Keefe, Alexander. “Stan VanDerBeek: The Box.” Artforum.com.
Mizota, Sharon. “Remembering the early computer-generated art of Stan VanDerBeek.” Los Angeles Times, September 25, 2014.
Stromberg, Matt. “Stan VanDerBeek: Poemfield at the Box.” Dailyserving.com, October 14, 2014.
2012
Doubal, Rosalie. “The Historical Box.” Time Out (London), June 14, 2012, p:45.
Holmes, Kevin. “Original Creator: Avant-Garde Filmmaker And Visual Artist Stan VanDerBeek.” The Creators Project, September 17, 2012. thecreatorsproject.vice.com.
Latimer, Quinn. “The Historical Box.” Frieze.com Jan. 2, 2012.
Sam, Sherman. “The Historical Box.” Artforum.com.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Machine Dream.” New Yorker, Aug. 6, 2012, p.75.
Smith, Roberta. “Technology Advances, Then Art Inquires.” New York Times, July 19, 2012.
2011
Arning, Bill and Joao Ribas. Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston/MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 2011. Exhibition catalog.
Dowell, Pat. “Stan VanDerBeek: Film on the cutting edge.” National Public Radio. July 10, 2011.
Kaizen, William. “Stan VanDerBeek:The Culture Intercom.” Artforum, (April 2011): 210.
Schulze, Troy. “Tech Art.” June 22, 2011. Houston Press.
2010
Bartlett, Mark, ed. animation: an interdisciplinary journal 5, no. 2 (July 2010).
Berry, Ian, Amazement Park: Stan, Sara, and Johannes VanDerBeek. Tang Museum and DelMonico Books, Prestel Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalog.
2009
Amidi, Amid. “A Stan VanDerBeek Retrospective.” In Ottawa International Animation Festival 2009 Reader, 74-78. Ottawa: Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2009.
Meade, Fionn. “Stan VanDerBeek: Guild & Greyshkul.” Artforum 47, no. 5 (January 2009): 210.
Nichols, Matthew Guy. “Stan VanDerBeek: Guild & Greyshkul.” Art in America 97, no. 1 (January 2009): 108.
Myers, Holly. “Layer Upon Layer of Technology.” (Review of Stan VanDerBeek at the Box.) Los Angeles Times, April 3, 2009.
2008
Baker, R.C. “Best in Show: Stan VanDerBeek at Guild & Greyshkul.” The Village Voice (October 1, 2008): 43.
Bartlett, Mark. “The Politics of Media in Stan VanDerBeek’s Poemfields.” animation: an interdisciplinary journal 3, no. 3 (November 2008): 266-287.
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Stan VanDerBeek.” The New York Times, October 10, 2008, C34.
Dupuis, Isabelle. “Stan VanDerBeek.” Flash Art 41, no. 263 (November-December 2008): 85.
Leighton, Tanya, ed. Art and the Moving Image, A Critical Reader. London: Tate Publishing in association with Afterall, 2008.
Mack, Joshua. “Stan VanDerBeek, Works from 1950-1980.” Time Out New York 656 (April 24-30, 2008): 101.
Olson, Marisa. “Art Keeps on Slipping Into the Future.” Rhizome, October 2, 2008. http://rhizome.org/editorial/1937.
Scott, Andrea K. “All in the Family.” The New Yorker: “Goings On” Blog, May 1, 2008. Accessed May 2008. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/goingson/2008/05/10.html.
Sholis, Brian. “Sara VanDerBeek: 500 Words.” Artforum, September 14, 2008. http://artforum.com/words/id=21092.
Smith, Roberta. “The Listings: The Human Face is a Monument.” The New York Times, April 25, 2008, E19.
Wiley, Chris. “Exhibition Review: Stan VanDerBeek at Guild and Greyshkul” Daylight Daily Blog, Daylight Magazine 7, October 15, 2008.
2007
Cattelan, Maurizio, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick. Charley 05. Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, 2007.
2006
Curiger, Bice, et al. The Expanded Eye: Stalking the Unseen. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, Kunsthaus Zürich.
Grunenberg, Christoph. Summer of Love. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue.
Michaud, Phillippe-Alain. Le Mouvement des images. Paris: Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, 2006.
2004
Leung, Simon, and Zoya Kocur. Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004.
Michalka, Mathias, et al. X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s. Koln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, and Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 2004. Exhibition catalogue.
2003
Sutton, Gloria. “Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome: Networking the Subject.” In Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, edited by Jeffery Shaw and Peter Weibel. Karlsruhe: Center for Art and Media (ZKM) and MIT Press, 2003.
2000
VanDerBeek, Johanna. Re:Voir Video Catalogue. Paris: 2000.
1999
Rees, A.L. A History of Experimental Film and Video. London: British Film Institute, 1999.
Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000. USA: Oxford University Press, 2002.
1994
Sklar, Robert. Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies, 314. New York: Vintage, 1994
1992
Barnouw, Erik. Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film. USA: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Toung, Art. “Cinema Experimental: Stan VanDerBeek.” Revue & Corrigée, no. 14 (Fall 1992): 24-5.
1986
ACM Siggraph. ACM Siggraph 86 Art Show: 13th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Dallas: ACM Siggraph, 1986. Exhibition catalogue.
Artists in the Computer Age. Toledo: Owens-Illinois Art Center, 1986. Exhibition catalogue.
1985
Vogel, Amos. “Orbits: Eternal Experimenter.” Film Comment 21, no. 1 (February 1985): 69.
1984
Feiler, Alan. “VanDerBeek dies of cancer at age 57.” Retriever, September 25, 1984.
Hitzig, Michael. “Innovative Rockland filmmaker succumbs to cancer at age 57.” The Journal News, September 21, 1984. “Stan VanDerBeek Dies at 57; Made Experimental Movie.” The New York Times, September 22, 1984, 32.
“VanDerBeek honored.” The Columbia Flier, February 9, 1984, 87.
“Video: Stan VanDerBeek.” The Village Voice (March 21-27, 1984).
1983
Allen, Jane Addams. “Computer Art: Future Shock.” The Washington Times Magazine, August 26, 1983.
Reid, Bruce. “It’s video screens as well as canvases for computer-age art students.” The Sun, May 29, 1983.
1980
Hill, Michael. “Look at Independent Filmmakers on PBS is surprising, irreverent.” Evening Sunpapers, September 10, 1982.
Weiss, M.W. “VanDerBeek to Students: Take a High Risk.” Journal of the University Film Association, Carbondale 34, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 19-21.
“Not to be Mist.” The Village Voice (November, 1980).
1979
Giuliano, Mike. “The Membrain brain: He’s ahead of the times back in the womb.” The News American, October 28, 1979.
“VanDerBeek wins Guggenheim Fellowship.” Retriever, May 14, 1979.
“Whitney to Show Computerized Film Images on Steam.” The New York Times (November 15, 1979): Page C17.
1978
MacDonald, Scott. “Independent film: where’s the audience?” Afterimage 5.9 (March 1978): 6-7.
“VANDERBEEK with Computer Graphics by Stan VanDerBeek.” Lightworks, no. 10 (Fall 1978): 17-9.
Fast Forward, interview, Canadian TV
1976
Hanhardt, John, et al. A History of the American Avant-Garde Cinema. New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1976. Exhibition catalogue.
“National Endowment” (interview). Cultural Post (Summer 1976).
Russett, Robert, and Cecile Starr. Experimental Animation: An Illustrated Anthology, 197-202. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1977.
“‘Under Aquarius’ To Transform Pool,” MIT Tech Talk 20, no. 30, March 10, 1976.
“VanDerBeek Exhibit in Library: The Work of a New Futurist.” Retriever, April 12, 1976, 5.
“National Endowment” [interview]. Cultural Post (Summer 1976)
1975
Martin, Robert. “VanDerBeek’s images: pathways or seducers.” The Tampa Times, June 12, 1975.
Powell, Fred. “Filmmaker’s computer art fascinating visual experience.” Falcon Times, January 29, 1975.
Schoettler, Carl. “Artist of the Future Working with Computers, Videos, Lasers.” The Baltimore Evening Sun Accent, December 2, 1975.
1974
English, Diane. “Profile: Stan VanDerBeek, Creator of Dreams.” Vision News 1, no. 3 (May 1974).
“Films to feature computer animation.” The Oracle, May 17, 1974.
“UFS’s VanDerBeek on Video Visionaries Show,” The Neighbor Newspaper, October 16, 1974.
Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema, 2nd ed. New York: Dutton, 1974.
1973
Davis, Douglas. Art and the Future: A History/Prophecy of the Collaboration Between Science, Technology and Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1973.
M.R. “Stan VanDerBeek, ‘Dans le Vent.’” Journées internationals du cinema d’animation festival d’annecy (January 1973): 5.
“Stan Vanderbeek Productor de Peliculas Experimentalies se Encuentra en Mexico.” Novedades, August 10, 1973, 16.
“VanDerBeek stuns Issues crowd with visual images.” Daily Utah Chronicle 83, no. 12, October 12, 1973.
Vrchota, Janet. “Stan VanDerBeek: Technology’s Migrant Fruitpicker.” Print (1973): 48-54.
Wright, Fred. “The Art Machine: Stan VanDerBeek turns on the computer and the Old Masters gasp–he hopes.” Floridian, April 8, 1973.
Interview by Ed Emshwiller, Media Center, Inc., State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (recorded December 15, 1973)
1972
“Cine Dreams is a Sellout.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, January 9, 1972.
Curtis, Davis. Experimental Cinema. London: Studio Vista, 1972.
“Dream Job.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, February 29, 1972.
Greenspun, Roger. “Screen: Stan VanDerBeek’s Underground Shorts: Retrospective Offered at the Film Forum.” The New York Times, December 9, 1972, 28.
Mekas, Jonas. Movie Journal. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
“Mind Cinema.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, January 21, 1972.
Multiple Interaction. Cambridge, MA: The Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, 1972. In collaboration with the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL; The Palace of Arts and Science, San Francisco, CA; and the Science Museum of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA. Exhibition catalogue.
O’Grady, Gerald. “Praxis as Axis: Autobiography in the New American Cinema.” SEE 5, no. 3 (January 1972): 30-4.
Plutzik, Roberta. “It’ll Put You to Sleep.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, February 20, 1972.
“They Dreamed of Staying Up.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, February 27, 1972.
1971
Al Hayat, September 7, 1971.
Al-Liwa, September 5, 1971.
An Nahar, August 28, 1971.
An Nahar, September 11, 1971.
Ayin, Hushang Mehr. “The Computerized Film.” Kayhan International, August 29, 1971.
Cines D’Orient, September 4, 1971.
Evans, Anita. “American Film-Maker Uses Media for Satire.” The Daily Star, September 9, 1971.
Katz, John S., Perspectives on the Study of Film. New York: Little Brown & Company, 1971.
“Media Wrap Around or a Man with No Close.” Filmmakers’ Newsletter 4, no. 5 (March 1971): 20-5.
Mekas, Jonas. “Movie Journal.” The Village Voice (July 1, 1971).
Melies, Georges. “Stan VanDerBeek, un filleul (americain).” L’Orient-Le Jour (supplement), August 28, 1971.
O’Connor, John. “When it Works, it’s Art, When it Doesn’t, Well…” The New York Times, July 4, 1971.
Sabet, Magda. “Spotlight.” The Daily Star, September 5, 1971.
“Stan VanDerBeek (Bilan de l’Underground).” Magazine, September 16, 1971.
1970
Anderson, Web. “Cinematography workshop on UH campus, experimental filmmaker here to teach.” The Sunday Star-Bulletin & Advertiser, July 12, 1970, 32-33.
Davis, Douglas. “Improbable Marriage.” Newsweek (April 20, 1970).
Davis, Douglas. “Television’s Avant-Garde.” Newsweek (February 9, 1970).
Durniak, John. “The VanDerBeek Dimension.” In U.S. Camera World Annual 1970, 72-80. New York: U.S. Camera Publishing, 1970.
Johnston, Jill. “Thanks for the Zonkers.” The Village Voice (January 22, 1970).
Renan, Sheldon. “An Introduction to the American Underground Film.” Film Culture (1970): 48-9.
Wasserman, Emily. “Explorations—Toward a Civic Art.” Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema. New York: Dutton, 1970.
Artforum 8, no. 10 (June 1970): 87-9.
1969
Crosstalk [interview and performance], Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka, Japan
1968
Cook, Camille. “Film Maker Stan VanDerBeek.” ArtScene (June 1968).
Cook, Camille. “VanDerBeek’s films to be shown Thursday.” Chicago Daily News, June 19, 1968.
Currie, Hector, ed. Cinema Now. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, 1968.
Currie, Hector, and Michael Porte. Perspectives on American Film: Stan Brakhage, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Stan VanDerBeek. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, 1968.
Thorpe, Dean. “Producer Cites ‘New World of Art Forms.’” Corpus Christi Caller, July 11, 1968.
1967
Adams, Marjory. “Movies—Maybe—in the Round, ‘Live’ Cinema for Tomorrow?” The Boston Globe, February 19, 1967.
Christgau, Robert. “Vanderbeek.” Cavalier 17, no. 9 (July 1967): 61-65.
Christgau, Robert. “When VanDerBeek A MovieDrome Decreed.” New York/World Journal Tribune, March 5, 1967.
Clark, Tom. “VanDerBeek: Man, Movies, Metaphor.” Focus
(October 1967): 3-4.
Clarke, Shirley. “A Statement on Dance and Film.” Dance Perspectives 30 (Summer 1967): 30-2.
Schwartz, Eugene. “Film Festival: Good Spots.” Columbia Daily Spectator, October 3, 1967.
Thomas, Kevin. “VanDerBeek to Show Films.” Los Angeles Times, March 31, 1967, C10.
Whitehall, Richard. “Film Artist in Residence at USC; VanDerBeek Uses Light and Live Dance.” The Los Angeles Free Press, April 21, 1967.
Van Dyke, Manica A., and W. Van Dyke. “Four Artists as Filmmakers.” Art in America 55, no. 1 (January 1967): 64-66.
Zaremba, Chuck. “USC Plans to ‘Focus on the Arts.’” University of South California Daily Trojan, March 17, 1967.
1966
Albarino, Richard. “Frug, Pulsating Images, Light Patterns: Can NY Youth Take so Much Emotion?” Variety (March 2, 1966).
“Movies: Masters and Mavericks.” Newsweek (October 3, 1966): 105B-107.
Sontag, Susan. “On Culture and the New Sensibility.” Against Interpretation. New York: Dell, 1966.
1965
Christgau, Robert. “VanDerBeek: Master of Animation.” Popular Photography (September 1965): 106-11.
Fleck, Dirk C. “Neues aus New York.” Freitag, December 10, 1965.
Hajek, Peter. “Wien-Premiere: ‘Expanded Cinema.’” Kurier, December 20, 1965.
“Nette und verspielte Zelluloid-Reformer.” Berliner-Morgenpost, December 10, 1965.
Niehoff, Karena. “Drehwurm mit Augenflimmern.” Der Tagesspiegel/Feuilleton, December 10, 1965.
Sheehy, Gail. “Six Hours in the Lobby.” New York Herald Tribune, September 15, 1965.
“Versuche aus USA.” Telegraf-Feuilleton, December 10, 1965.
“Völkerverständigung in Bildern, Gespräch mit dem New Yorker Filmregisseur Stan VanDerBeek.” Spandauer.
Volksblatt, December 8, 1965.
1964-65
“Interview: Chapter One.” Film Culture, no. 35 (1964-5)
1964
Mener, Jacques. “Breathdeath.” Script 10-12 (March 1964): 68-9.
1962
Mekas, Jonas. “Movie Journal: The Year’s Best.” The Village Voice, January 11, 1962.
Tompkins, Calvin. The Bride and the Bachelors: Five Masters of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Viking Press, 1962.
1961
Mekas, Jonas and Dick Bergman. “Movie Journal.” The Village Voice, May 4, 1961.
Writings by Stan VanDerBeek
1981
“Re: Vision of Cine-Dreams.” DreamWorks 2, no. 1 (Fall 1981): 4-12.
1977
“Animation Retrospective.” Film Comment 62 (October 1977).
“Lengthy Interview.” Cultural Post [published by the National Endowments Publication].
1976
Machine Art: An Exhibit of “Inter-Graphics.” Baltimore: University of Maryland Baltimore County Library, 1976.
“Culture: Intercom and Expanded Cinema, a Proposal.” The New American Cinema. Edited by Gregory Battock. New York: Dutton, 1976.
1975
“Cinema Is…” Up to Speed, The Journal of The Baltimore Film Festival 1, no. 1 (Fall 1975): 6.
1973
“Social-Imagistics: What the Future May Hold.” American Film Institute Report 4, no. 2 (May 1973): 54-7.
Print Magazine 27 (March 1973): 48-54.
1971
“Media (W)rap-around: Or a Man with No Close.” Filmmakers Newsletter 4, no. 5 (March 1971).
1970
"New Talent-The Computer." Art in America 58, no. 1 (1970): 86-91.
“Re Computerized Graphics” Film Culture 48-49 (1970): 37-40.
U.S. Camera World Annual 1970. New York: U.S. Camera Publishing, 1970, 72-80.
1969
“Disposable Art-Synthetic Media and Artificial Intelligence.” Take One (January-February 1969): 14-16.
“Movies, Disposable Art, Synthetic Media and Artificial Intelligence.” In Revolution, Place, and Symbol, edited by Rolfe Lanier Hunt. New York: International Congress on Religion, Architecture, and the Visual Arts, 1969.
Art in America 57 (November 1969).
1967
Polemic XI, no. 2 (Spring 1967): 20-31.
Dance Perspectives 30 (Summer 1967).
1966
“Compound Entendre.” In Film: A Montage of Theories, edited by Richard McCann, 329-32. New York: Dutton, 1966.
“Culture: Intercom and Expanded Cinema: A Proposal and Manifesto.” Film Culture 40 (Spring 1966): 15-18.
“Re:Vision.” The American Scholar 35, no. 2 (Spring 1966): 335-340.
“Culture: Intercom and Expanded Cinema: A Proposal and Manifesto.” Tulane Drama Review 11, no. 1 (Autumn 1966): 38-48.
“A Proposal by Stan VanDerBeek & Expanding Cinema.” Motive XXII/2 (November 1966): 13-23.
1965-5
“Interview: Chapter One.” Film Culture 35 (1964-5): 20-22.
1963
“Simple Syllogism.” Film Culture 29 (1963): 11.
1962
“If the Actor Is the Audience.” Film Culture 24 (Spring 1962): 92.
1961
“The Cinema Delimina: Films from the Underground.” Film Quarterly 14, no. 4 (Summer 1961): 5-15.
“On ‘Science Friction’” Film Culture 22-23 (Summer 1961): 168.
Awards/Honors
1980
Short film selected for NY International Film Festival, Euclidean Illusions, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
1978
First prize, experimental film, Poemfield No. 7, Washington International Film Festival
1974
American Film Institute (AFI) Independent Filmmakers Award, Los Angeles, CA
1972
First prize, experimental film for Symmetricks, Hawaii Film Festival, Honolulu, HI
1968
First prize, animation for Superimposition, Mannheim, Germany
1967
See Saw Seems, Lincoln Center Film Festival, New York, NY and London Film Festival, London, United Kingdom
Participant, Literarisches Collequium, Berlin, Germany.
Second prize for Man and His World, Computer film Expo ’67, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1965
Top prize for Breathdeath, Fourth Annual Independent Film-Makers’ Festival at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA (May 8-9, 1965)
1964
Lincoln Center Film Festival, Skullduggery
London Film Festival, Skullduggery
Prizes at Midwest and Ann Arbor Film Festivals for Breathdeath
Award winner at The Experimental Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
1960
Award of distinction for Science Friction, Creative Film Foundation, New York, NY
First prize, animation for Mankinda, Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
1959
Award of merit for What Who How, Creative Film Foundation, New York, NY
1958
Bronze medal for Mankinda and What Who How, Brussels International Experimental Film Competition, Brussels World Fair, Brussels, Belgium
Award of Distinction for What Who How Cinema 16, New York, NY
Maryland Arts Council award for Media Art.
Guggenheim Award
