Stan VanDerBeek Archive

Stan VanDerBeek (1927–1984) was a prolific multimedia artist known for his pioneering work in experimental film, expanded cinema and computer art. VanDerBeek believed in technology as a tool to further the human experience. In his words, “new technologies will open higher levels of psychic communication and neurological referencing.” Throughout his career, VanDerBeek was deeply invested in how technology had the potential to build new cultural spaces, calling for a broader understanding in the ways accelerated media impacts our experience of the world, and ultimately each other. During his tenure at Bell Labs (1964–71) and as the first artist in residence at CAVS at MIT (1970), VanDerBeek developed new-media works in collaboration with other multidisciplinary researchers and artists interested in expanding and advancing an audience’s experience. This led to his explorations in various forms of transmission and feedback, such as his Movie-Drome, multi-site fax murals Panels for the Walls of the World, and his later engagements with public television broadcasting. Each encapsulates VanDerBeek's technological prescience, humanist idealism, and poetic curiosity.

Stan VanDerBeek studied at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York (1948-1952), and at Black Mountain College, Asheville, North Carolina (1949-1950). Recent exhibitions that have featured VanDerBeek's work include Transmissions, Magenta Plains, NY (2024); Signals: How Video Transformed the World, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2023); Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (2023); CONSOLAS: Democracia para la imagen digital (1972-2003); ETOPIA Centre for Art and Technology, Zaragoza, ES (2020); VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek at the Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Asheville, NC (2019); Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2018); Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980 at the Met Breuer, New York, NY (2017); Merce Cunningham: Common Time at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2017); Dreamlands: lmmersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2016); Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2015); the 55th Venice Biennale, IT (2013); and Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, and at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2011). VanDerBeek's work can be found in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES.

The Stan VanDerBeek Archive is dedicated to preserving and providing access to artwork produced by American multimedia artist Stan VanDerBeek (1927–1984). Established in 2018 as the formal entity for the artist’s estate, the Archive keeps VanDerBeek’s work visible through maintaining the collection and providing support for acquisitions, exhibitions and publications. The Archive is comprised of an advisory board that includes the artist’s children, scholars and curators. Chelsea Spengemann has been involved with the estate since 2007 and currently serves as Director of the Archive.

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

Solo, Two, and Three Person Exhibitions

2024
Transmissions, Magenta Plains, New York, NY

2023
Perceptual Transcendence, Magenta Plains at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL
Panels for the Walls of the World, The Film Gallery at OFFSCREEN, Grand Garage Haussmann, Paris, FR
Stan VanDerBeek and Chason Matthams, Independent New York, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
See Saw Seems, Magenta Plains, New York, NY

2022
Panels for the Walls of the World: Phase 2, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Panels for the Walls of the World: Phase 1, Document Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, and EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Poemfield, RCM Galerie, Paris, FR

2019
VanDerBeek, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC

2018
Poemfield, Document Gallery, Chicago, IL

2017
Jon Rafman / Stan VanDerBeek, Curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Sprueth Magers Los Angeles, CA

2015
Poemfield, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York, NY

2014
Poemfield, The Box, Los Angeles, CA

2012
Stan VanDerBeek, American Contemporary, New York, NY

2011
Stan VanDerBeek – The Cultural Intercom, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX The Historical Box, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, CH

2009
Stan VanDerBeek, The Box, Los Angeles, CA (March 14-April 18, 2009)
Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Sam Moyer, 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
THE FILMS OF STAN VANDERBEEK: As part of the PAUL McCARTHY: FILM list, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2003
Stan VanDerBeek, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY

2001
A Space Art Visionary of the Sixties and Seventies, Outer Space-Cyber Space Art Workshop, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR

1976
Machine Art: An Exhibit of “Inter-Graphich” by Professor Stan VanDerBeek, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Library Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1975
Intergraphics, University of South Florida Teaching Gallery, FL

1974
An Exhibition of the University of South Florida College of Fine Arts, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

1966
The World of Stanley VanDerBeek, The Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY

1960
New Medium-New Forms, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

1954
Heat Paintings, Polaroids, Oils, Boylston Street Print Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Select Group Exhibitions

2025
(FORTHCOMING), Electric Op, Musée d’arts de Nantes, Nantes, FR

2024
(FORTHCOMING) New American Cinema, Eye Museum, Amsterdam, NL
(FORTHCOMING) Electric Op, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY. Traveling to Musée d’arts de Nantes, Nantes, FR (2025)
(FORTHCOMING) The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
(FORTHCOMING) Electric Dreams, Tate Modern, London, UK

2023
Signals: How Video Transformed the World, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Topologies of the Real, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MOCAUP), Shenzhen Guangdong Province, CN
Lust Severs, Thoma Foundation Art Vault, Santa Fe, NM
Hypervision, Magenta Plains, New York, NY

2022
Cybernetic Serendipity Redux, Australian National University, Canberra, AU
LIAF 2022: Fantasmagoriana, North Norwegian Art Centre, Svolvær and Kabelvåg, NO, Curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi.
Early Computer Films, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
Topologies of the Real: Techne Shenzhen, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, CH

2021
Fantasy Pop, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands, UK

2020
Art Machines: Past and Present, Indra and Harry Banga Gallery, University of Hong Kong, CH
We Don’t Like Your House Either!, Curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Monitor Gallery, Rome, IT
From Abstraction to Algorithm, Tabakalera, San Sebastián, ES
CONSOLAS: Democracia para la imagen digital (1972-2003), ETOPIA_Centre for Art and Technology, Zaragoza and Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), ES

2019
Private Lives Pubic Spaces, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Immortality: 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, RU
In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969, Portland Museum of Art, Portland MI
Bauhaus Imaginista, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE

2018
Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Art in Motion, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, DE
Revisiting Black Mountain, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, CH
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, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980, The Met Breuer, New York, NY
The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE
From Comes out of Chaos, Institute 193, Lexington, KY
Illuminados, SESC Belenzinho, Sao Paulo, BR
Merce Cunningham: Common Time, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Engineering Utopia, Urban Arts Space, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City 1952-1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE

2016
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Beat Generation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France and ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
Computer Films of the 1960s, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY
Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens, Sprueth Magers Berlin, DE
The Direct Imprint of Life — Experience on Time, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot, FR
Electronic Superhighway: From Experiments in Art and Technology to Art After the Internet, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK. Traveled to Museum de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, PT

2015
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, traveled to: Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
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, FR
Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to The Digital Sublime, Serralves Museum of
Contemporary Art, Porto, PT
Stan VanDerBeek:Poemfield, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York, NY
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2014
The Crystal Palace, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
Type Motion, ZKM Karlsruhe and FACT Liverpool, UK, travelled to National Taiwan
Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, TW (2015)

2013
Go! You sure? Yeah., LUMA/Westbau POOL, Zurich, CH
Xerography, firstsite, Essex, UK
Venice Biennale 2013, The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice, IT
Insomnia, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, ES

2012
Ghosts in the Machine, New Museum, New York, NY
Historical Box, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
Snapshots of the City, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, AT, traveled to: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, ES (2012); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2013); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2013).

2011
The Historical Box, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, CH
Take Me To Your Leader, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, DE
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, AT
Nachleben, The Goethe-Institut, New York, NY
Gwangju Biennale 2010,10000 Lives, Gwangju, KR

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
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, FR
Stan VanDerBeek, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY

2007
Genesis: Life at the End of the Information Age, Central Museum, Utrecht, NL
bit international–[Nove] Tendencije—Computer and Visual Research (Darko Fritz, curator), Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, AT
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, UK
1960s Electric Arts: From Kinetic Sculpture to Media Environments, Seattle Art Museum Downtown, Seattle, WA

2004
4D in the Filmmuseum, Dutch Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
X-Screen, Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s, Museum of Moderner Kunst Stiftung,Ludwig, Vienna, AT
War! Protest in America 1965-2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2001
A Space Art Visionary of the Sixties and Seventies, Outer Space-Cyber Space Art Workshop, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR

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, NY
New American Video Art: A Historical Survey, 1967-1980, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, travelled to: Video Culture Canada, Toronto, Ontario, CA (1984); University of California, San Diego, CA (1985); Institute of North American Studies, Barcelona, ES; 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
Art by Computer & Video, The Museum of the Surreal & Fantastique, New York, NY
Sky Art, Lenz Austria
L’Art du Cinema D’Animation, Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, CA; Musée régional du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Quebec, CA
Contemporary Photographs of Niagara Falls, Media Study/Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

1981
Photo/Electric Arts Exhibition ’81, T-Court, Village by the Grange, Toronto, Ontario, CA

1978
Light Mural of Office Windows, IBM Building, Baltimore, MD

1976
Technological Art, Towson State College Art Gallery, Towson, MD
New Work in Abstract Video Imagery, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

1974
An Exhibition of the University of South Florida College of Fine Arts, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

1973
33rd Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
New Photographics #73, Fine Arts Building, Central Washington College, Ellensburg, WA

1972-74
Multiple Interaction Team, MIT, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL; The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA; The Exploratorium at The Palace of Arts and Sciences, San Francisco, CA; Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, OH; The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

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, BR

1970
Software, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
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
Explorations, MIT Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, MA

1969
Art By Telephone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The New Vein, Smithsonian Institution International Art Program, Buenos Aires, ES and Milan, IT Traveled across Latin America and Western Europe

1968
Cybernetic Serendipity, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, traveled to Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Projected Image, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The New Vein: The Human Figure, 1963-1968, Organized by the National Collection of Fine Arts International Art Program, Washington, D.C.

1966
The Object in The Open Air, The Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsman’s Council, New York, NY
Projected Art, Finch College Museum of Art, Contemporary Wing, New York, NY

1961
Bewogen, Beweging, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

Multimedia performances

2018
Cine Dreams, Art Basel Cities, Buenos Aires, AR

2017
Movie Mural, The Box, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, CH

2016
Steam Screens, with Joan Brigham, Dreamlands: Expanded, Organized by Whitney Museum of American Art and Microscope Gallery, Knockdown Center, Maspeth, NY

2015
Cine Dreams, ArtRio, Fundação Planetário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, BR

2014
Cine Dreams: Stan VanDerBeek, Jeronimo Voss, Katie Paterson, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi and MIART, Civico Planetario Ulrico Hoepli, Milan, IT

2009
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Ontario, CA

1997
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE

1983
Steam-Screen, ELECTRA, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, with Sonia Lady Sheridan

1981
Retrospective and Steam-Screen installation, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (October 15)
Centre national du cinema, Paris, FR
Media-Wrap-Around: A Tribute to Marshall McLuhan, (steam sculpture), Computer Culture ’81, Village by The Grange, Toronto, Ontario, CA

1980
Stan VanDerBeek, CHAMBERS in nine parts and VAPORS SCREEN, part of the First Intermedia Art Festival Performance Series, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Series, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1979
Steam Screens, film performance in collaboration with Joan Brigham, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1978
As We See it: Introducing Thirty-Six New Holographic Works, Museum of Holography, New York, NY
Light Works, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

1977
Under Aquarius, in collaboration with Joan Brigham, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Stan VanDerBeek’s Steam Screen: A Cinematic Mirage, Baltimore International Film Festival, Baltimore Film Forum, MD
The Theatre of Light and Shadow, City of Baltimore Commission, Baltimore, MD

1976
Under Aquarius, in collaboration with Joan Brigham, Alumni Pool, MIT, Cambridge, MA

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, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1973
Cine Naps, USF Planetarium, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

1972
Cine Dreams: Future Cinema of The Mind, Strasenburgh Planetarium, Rochester, NY

1970
Expanded cinema program, Hellenic American Union, Athens, EL

1969
Found Forms, Crosstalk Intermedia Festival, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka, JP
Cine-Probe, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1968
The Institute of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1967
Contemporary Voices presented by The Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
Variations V, Collaboration with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, David Tudor, and Nam June Paik,
Cinema Now Symposium: Stan Brakhage, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Stan VanDerBeek, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Feedback #3, Hancock Auditorium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IW
Street Meet, Design-In, Central Park Mall, New York, NY,
International Congress on Art and Religion, New York, NY
National Council of Planning, Washington, DC
Stan VanDerBeek, James Rosenquist, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois

1966
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Harvard Club, New York, NY
Design Conference, Aspen, CO

1965
Here Festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Variations V, Collaboration with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, David Tudor, and Nam June Paik, New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Vision ’65, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Feedback No. 1, Pastorale et al., Move-Movies: A Choreography for Projectors, Vision IIII, New Cinema Festival One / Filmmakers’ Cinematheque Expanded Cinema Festival, Astor Place Playhouse, New York, NY
Festival of the Avant-Garde ‘65, Presented by Charlotte Moorman, Judson Hall, New York, NY Berlin, DE, Vienna, AT, Copenhagen, DK

1963-65
Conceived and built Movie-Drome, Stony Point, NY

1961
Cinema Frontiers, AG Gallery, New York, NY

1960
Film of Snapshots from the City, performance at Judson Gallery with Claes Oldenburg, New York, NY

Moving Image Programs

2023
Magic Moirés, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Jazz on Film, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (June 9-24)
Stan VanDerBeek 1957-1960: 9 Experimental Shorts, Metrograph At Home, Metrograph, New York, NY

2022
New York, 1962-1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema, Film at Lincoln Center, on the occasion of New York: 1962-1964, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, CR
Jonas Mekas 100!: The New American Cinema and After, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, UK; CinemaAttic, Edinburgh, UK; Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK. Organized by Herb Shellenberger for Independent Cinema Office, London, UK

2021
Experimental Film and Video Festival (EXiS), Seoul, SK
The Gatekeepers Exist to Be Overthrown: Amos Vogel - Repeats and Responses, Attempts from New York (Berlin Congress Hall, 1965), Arsenal, Berlin, DE, Curated by Tobias Hering

2020
Stan VanDerBeek Collage Animation Films (1957-1965), Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York, NY
Selections from the Stan VanDerBeek Archive, Rice Media Center, Houston, TX, (February 29)

2019
Films by Stan VanDerBeek, Kenneth Goldsmith, I Declare a Permanent State of Happiness,
Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT
Going Inward is Not Withstanding, The Gate Theater Film Festival 1966/2019, Filmfront, Chicago, IL

2018
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Spotlight on Collage Animation, Ottawa, CA
Anim’est International Film Festival, Bucharest, RO
Stan VanDerBeek: Euclidean Illusions, Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Independent Frames: American Experimental Animation in the 1970s and 1980s, Quad Cinema, New York, NY

2017
An Evening of Computer Films with Ken Knowlton, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Point Counterpoint: Avant-Garde Film Scores, 1955-1973: Music by Teiji Ito, Arvo Part, John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, and Others, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Cathode Ray Tube Projections, Imagine Science, Museum of the Moving Image, Rooftop Reds, Brooklyn, NY
MIFFONEDGE, Maine International Film Festival, Maine Film Center, Waterville, ME
The New American Cinema. Torino 1967, Curated by Germano Celant, Fondazione Prada, Milan, IT
ever elusive, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Broad Underground, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Light City, UMBC Spark Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2016
Outer Space, Dreamlands Film and Video Screening Circuit Breaker: Group Screening, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Circuit Breaker: Group Screening, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Writ Large: Poemfields and Motionpoems, The Great Wall of Oakland, Oakland, CA
32th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, DE
Pursuit of Light: American Avant-Garde Cinema of the 70s, Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul Modern Cinema, Istanbul, TR

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, SE

2013
Computer Age: Early Computer Movies, 1952-1987, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY

2009
Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception, Tate Modern, London, UK

2005
Newsreel of Dreams 1, Independent Film Show 5th Edition, EM-Arts, Naples, IT

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, FR

1995
9èmes rencontres du cinema indépendant de Châteauroux, Châteauroux, FR

1993
Kunst or Die, Zonmééé, Montreuil, FR

1985
ARTSCAPE ’85, Stan VanDerBeek Retrospective, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Sixteenth Annual Baltimore International Film Festival: A Tribute to Stan VanDerBeek with special guest Stan Brakhage, The Baltimore Film Forum, Baltimore, MD
A Tribute to Stan VanDerBeek: Selected Works 1968-1984, Anthology Video Program, New York, NY

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
Computer Art Exhibit and Festival, Sinclair Auditorium Fountain Area, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA
World-Wide Video Festival, The Hague, NL
Baltimore Film Festival

1981
Film and Video Pioneer Stan VanDerBeek screenings, The Boston Film/Video Foundation, Boston, MA
Highlights of the Baltimore Film Festival: Stan VanDerBeek, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Communication Interface of Motion Pictures, Auditorium, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario,CA
Art Works, University of Michigan, Detroit, MI
Living Artists of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Stan VanDerBeek Retrospective, The Carolina Film and Video Festival, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
New York Film Festival
Museum of Modern Art Circulating Film Program

1980
Cineprobe Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Chambers: Multimedia Performance for Membrain Theatre, Fine Arts Building, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

1979
Retrospective, Stan VanDerBeek, The American Film Institute Theatre at the John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, DC

1978
Stan VanDerBeek, Berks Filmmakers, Inc., Reading, PA Video and Film Series, Global Village, New York, NY (December 8) Video Art, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY (January-February) Video and Film Series, Global Village, New York, NY (December 8)

1977
Stan VanDerBeek Retrospective, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Independent Film-Maker Stan VanDerBeek, Pittsburgh Film-Makers, Pittsburgh, PA
Brooklyn College Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY

1976
Film Forum, New York, NY
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
Light Brings Us News of the Universe, The New Theatre Festival, Baltimore, MD

1975
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Stan VanDerBeek: Films and Videos, Intermedia Church, Garnerville, NY
University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Video Anthology OMS Video and Films, New York, NY
Participant, Computer films, Paris, France
Annual Avant-Garde Festival of New York, NY
Computer Generation, The New Baltimore Independent Film Museum, Baltimore, MD
Stan VanDerBeek: Films and Videos, Intermedia Church, Garnerville, NY
University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

1974
Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2nd International Computer Art Festival, The Kitchen
Stan VanDerBeek and Local Independent Filmmakers and Video Artists, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
1974 Summer Institute in the Making and Understanding of Film and Media, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK
Video Program at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Underground Filmmakers, ETV, Madison, WI
Symmetricks, screened at Cannes Film Festival, Palais des Festivals, Grand Salle, Paris, FR

1973
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
The Kitchen, New York, NY
Selected New Computer Films: Stan VanDerBeek, Theatre Vanguard, West Hollywood, CA
The New American Filmmakers Series, Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Festival of Independent Avant-Garde Film, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Multi-Screen Image-Event Presents a UAC-Creative Arts Festival with Artist, Filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek, National Science Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI
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, UK

1972
Cinema ’72, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
New American Filmmaker Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Bininger Theatre, Florida Presbyterian College, St. Petersburg, FL
Millennium, New York, NY
The North Carolina Film Festival
The Kitchen Video Festival, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Second International Festival of Cinema, Montreal, Quebec, CA

1971
University of Ottawa, Ontario, CA
Stan VanDerBeek, U.S. Cultural Center, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, IL
The John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
Stan VanDerBeek Film Retrospective, American Embassy Auditorium, London, UK
Annual Avant-Garde Festival of New York, The 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY

1970
For Life, Against War: Week of the Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam, 1967, excerpt screened as part of Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970.
Poemfield No. 1, part of Program Three of the Kinetic Art 2, Philharmonic Hall Box Office, New York, NY
New York University, New York, NY
Program presented while in residence at The University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Recent Film Experiments: Stan VanDerBeek, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1969
Refocus, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Institute of Design of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
McCarter Theatre, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Spoleto Film Exposition, Spoleto, IT

1968
10 Tage New American Cinema, Park-Lichtspiele, Gelnhausen, DE
The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Stan VanDerBeek: An Evening of Films, Flims, Flics, Film-Maker’s Cinematheque, New York, NY
Breathdeath, Janus Series II, Fortnight of the Active Arts, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Cinema Psychedelica, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Art & Document Series, Bell & Howell Company

1967
The First Sarah Lawrence Film Festival, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Film Festival, London, UK
New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Film Festival, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Stan VanDerBeek: Mixed Media, Cinema ’67, The Union Film Society, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
New American Cinema Group Exposition, Organized by Jonas Mekas, Turin, IT
Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY

1966
RE: VISION and screenings, The Film Society, New York, NY
Panels for the Walls of the World, Baden-Württemberg, DE

1965
Screening of Breathdeath, Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne, AU
STA Allerton; On Film, STA Allerton Design Conference, Robert Allerton Park, Monticello, IL
An Evening of Experimental Film, Cinema Club, New York, NY

1965-66
Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, New York, NY
Mannheim Film Festival, Mannheim, DE
Midwest Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Kutsher’s Country Club, Monticello, 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
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI

1962
Poets Festival, Maidman Playhouse, New York , NY

1961
Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany Spoleto Film Exposition, Spoleto, IT
Comedies From Below Ground, presented by The American Underground Cinema, The Living Theatre, New York, NY

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
Bergamo Film Festival, Bergamo, IT

1959
Venice Film Festival, Venice, IT

Film and Television

2023
Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV, Directed by Amanda Kim

2021
The Velvet Underground, Directed by Todd Haynes, Motto Pictures

2019
Cunningham, Written and Directed by Alla Kovgan, Magnolia Pictures

1980
Documentary film by KET Television, Lexington, KY

1978
Fast Forward, Interview, Canadian TV

1977
Collisions, WGBH, Boston, MA

1974
Violence Sonata, Video Visionaries, Public Broadcasting Service, New York, NY

1973
College Collideoscope, CBS, Tampa, FL

1972
Computer Generation, Camera Three, Boston, MA
Video Variations, WGBH-TV; Boston Symphony, Boston, MA
Towards the Year 2000, ABC

1971
Flick Out, WGBH, Boston, MA

1970
Flick Out, WGBH, Boston, MA
Violence Sonata, WGBH, Boston, MA
Video Variations, WGBH, Boston, MA
Stan Vanderbeek... Tomorrow is Now, WNYE-TV, New York, NY

1969
Feedback, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

1968
VanDerBeekiana, Camera Three, CBS 20th Century

1966
The Underground Comes up for Air...an Electric Collage...by Stan VanDerBeek, Channel 2
Berlin Panel, WCBS-TV

1965
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!!!!, Channel 4

1958
Mankinda, Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles, Competition du Film Experimental

Lectures

1981
Sky Art Conference, “Future Perspectives,” Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Art and the Computer, Baltimore, panelist for National Computer Graphics Association, Fairfax, VA
Art Works, University of Michigan, Detroit, MI
2nd Sky Art Conference, lecturer, Linz, AT

1976
Summer Institute in the Making and Understanding of Film and Media, Center for Media Study at University of Buffalo, NY

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
The Film Maker Featuring Stan VanDerBeek, Western Carolina University, Cullowehee, NC
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
The Computer Generation: Stan VanDerBeek, MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge, MA
Florida Technological University Village Center, Orlando, FL

1971
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
New England Festival of the Arts, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture Series, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Feedback, Syracuse, NY and University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
The New England School of Art, Boston, MA

1970-71
Speaker for U.S.I.A. in Media with multi-media presentation: IR (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem);CY (Nicosia); IR (Shiraz-Persepolis Art Festival, Teheran, IR); LB (Beirut); GR (Athens); TR (Istanbul, Adana Film Festival); FR (Paris); UK (London)

1970
Visit to Haverford College, Haverford, PA

1969
Annual Convention of the Illinois Audio-Visual Association, Chicago, IL [featured speaker]
Refocus, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

1968
Rhode Island School of Design visits Stony Point, NY
Fortnight of the Active Arts, Hamilton Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, University For Presidents, San Juan, PR

1967
Art Directors Club, Indianapolis, IN
Stan VanDerBeek and Len Lye Informal Group Discussion, Contemporary Voices in the Arts, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Summer Artist Series, State University College at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
College of Fine and Applied Art, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

1966
American Craft Council, Minneapolis, MN
Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
Fairleigh Dickinson, Teaneck, NJ
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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

1965
Wagner College, Staten Island, 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

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
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
Celebration of Literature II: Literature and the Film, presented by the University of South Florida Department of Speech, Tampa, FL

1972
Art & Science Symposium, Chicago New Art Association, Chicago, IL

1971
First National Computer Art Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1970
New Media Symposium, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA (May 11-16)
Toward an Emphasis on the Computer and the Fine Arts in the 1980s, round table discussion, Hilton Hotel, New York, NY
The Computer With Man As Creative Director, presented by the AIGA Book Clinic and McGraw-Hil Book Company, New York, NY
American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA [seminar]

1967
Design Conference, Aspen, CO
International Congress on Art and Religion, New York, NY
National Council of Planning, Washington, DC
Cinema Now, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1968
Participant and interview in Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin, West DE. Symposium on “Future of the Cinema” “New Possibilities of Filmmaking”

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

1972-5
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

1971-2
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

1963-5
Columbia University, New York, NY, Associate Professor in Animation and Film Production

1959
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Liberty, ME, Experimental Film Seminar

Public Collections
The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
LUMA Foundation, Zurich, CH
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES
The National Library of Australia Film Collection, Parkes (Canberra), AU
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, DE