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Stan Vanderbeek / The Computer Generation (1972) |
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In 1967, Stan VanDerBeek became an artist in residence at MIT’s nascent
Center for Advanced Visual Studies, founded two years earlier by György
Kepes. VanDerBeek, a filmmaker and a pioneer of what would soon be
termed ‘expanded cinema’, was deeply interested in technology, which he
called the ‘amplifier of the human imagination’. By this point,
VanDerBeek had been working on the fringes of new technologies for
several years. He created several experimental films in the 1950s and
1960s, and began working with computers in 1965. He had embarked, in
collaboration with Ken Knowlton at Bell Labs, on a series of
computer-generated films, using a programming language Knowlton wrote in
1963 called BEFLIX.
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