Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) was a prolific multimedia artist known for his pioneering work in experimental film and computer art.

Joined February 2023
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Stan VanDerBeek Archive retweeted
Mark your calendars for a celebration of "Electric Op" on Thursday, September 26! A Members' Preview of the exhibition will take place from 4 to 7 pm, followed by a Voices in Contemporary Art lecture in the Lipsey Auditorium from 7 to 8 pm. Learn More → buffaloakg.org/electric-op
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Stan VanDerBeek Archive retweeted
This month and next, be sure to check out STAN VANDERBEEK: TRANSMISSIONS, a new exhibit at @MagentaPlains that presents “the artist’s collages, drawings, and films. The exhibition expands across three floors to include a curated selection of works made between 1950 and 1970.”
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Panels for the Walls of the World: Phase 1 (1970) on view now @Offscreen2 Paris
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Looking forward to bringing VanDerBeek to Paris in October! @TheFilmGallery @Offscreen2 🎞️ OFFSCREEN: Rosa Barba, Guest of Honor and a first selection of highlights martincid.com/en/2023/09/off… via @martincid

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In print and online @artforum ! Michael Corris reviews the recent exhibition with @magentaplains artforum.com/print/reviews/2…

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Don’t miss!
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Saturday 6/10 at 4PM please join us at Magenta Plains for “Technologies of the Archive: A Conversation on the work of Stan VanDerBeek” with interdisciplinary artist and educator Kamau Patton & scholar Cash Ragona. magentaplains.com/
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Movie-Drome related edit from @artforum David Velasco’s interview with @themuseumofmodernart Signals co-curators Michelle Kuo and Stuart Comer. The current issue has several fantastic articles on Signals and works within - and a gorgeous cover by Sondra Perry.
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Stan VanDerBeek at MIT, Photo: Ken Feil, 1969 Thank you @artinamerica for republishing VanDerBeek’s 1970 essay “New Talent - The Computer” 2nd slide is a Kodalith from 1966 when Stan was making “Collideoscope” with Ken Knowlton and Carol Bosche as an artist fellow at MIT CAVS.
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Thoughtful review of Signals @MuseumModernArt by Jenny Wu
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At MoMA’s largest media exhibition to date, the polemical power of transmission-based works is explored in works that are at once personal and political artreview.com/signals-how-vi…
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Tonight! 5/8 @ 5PM, 636 Broadway, #320 Director Chelsea Spengemann will speak about restaging the Movie-Drome for @MuseumModernArt in conversation with Marie Warsh, Estate of Rosemary Mayer and Jeremy Johnston. All in the context of Re: Scott Burton’s Atrium Furnishment
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Opening tonight! @MagentaPlains
Opening Thurs 5/4, 6-8PM at Magenta Plains Stan VanDerBeek: See Saw Seems We are showing 3 of VanDerBeek’s most well known collage animation films - all recently preserved: A La Mode (1960), Breathdeath (1963) and See Saw Seems (1965) On view through 6/17! @MagentaPlains
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Opening Thurs 5/4, 6-8PM at Magenta Plains Stan VanDerBeek: See Saw Seems We are showing 3 of VanDerBeek’s most well known collage animation films - all recently preserved: A La Mode (1960), Breathdeath (1963) and See Saw Seems (1965) On view through 6/17! @MagentaPlains
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Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome in the @nybooks review by Jed Perl of “Coded” @LACMA and “Signals” @MuseumModernArt nybooks.com/articles/2023/05…
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Thank you @MuseumModernArt! We are so pleased the dome is being cared for by your team and seen by so many!
In 1965 #StanVanDerBeek completed his extraordinary “Movie-Drome”: a structure in which high-speed overlapping projections flooded the interior, enveloping viewers in a cascade of images of overwhelming “visual velocity.” Read more on #MoMAMagazinemo.ma/3nHp3fQ
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Stan VanDerBeek, The Cinema Delimina: Films From the Underground Published by VanDerBeek in 1961 and included in Film Quarterly 14, no.4. 1. Detail of the publication layout including a collage by VanDerBeek. 2. Cover of the publication. 3. Detail of interior
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Stan VanDerBeek Archive retweeted
Very much looking forward to speaking with Michelle Kuo and Stuart Comer about their co-curated exhibit Signals @MuseumModernArt on Friday noon EST with @TheBrooklynRail register: brooklynrail.org/events/2023…
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#stanvanderbeek 16mm film from 1965 in #namjunepaik Canal St. loft one of many amazing archival sources used in #moonistheoldesttv
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