Vanderbeek biography
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Stan Vanderbeek
American bio director
Stan VanDerBeek (January 6, – September 19, ) was an American independent animator,[1]experimental filmskapare, and art theoretician known for his collage works[2] and his early use the digital computer as a creative medium. His Movie Drome theater was a grain silodome or geodesic dome where he showed 16mm films mixed with 35mm slides, film and digital animations.[3]
Life
[edit]VanDerBeek studied art and architecture at Manhattan's Cooper Union before transferring to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met polymath Buckminster Fuller, composer John Cage, and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Beginning in , he took two terms of photography courses from Hazel Larsen Archer at the institution.[4]
In the s, he directed independent art films while learning animation techniques and painting scenery and set designs for Winky Dink and You. His earliest films, made between and , mostly
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James Van Der Beek
American actor (born )
In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Der Beek, not Beek.
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| Born | James David Van Der Beek () March 8, (age&#;47) Cheshire, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | Cheshire Academy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years&#;active | –present |
| Height | 6&#;ft 0&#;in (&#;cm) |
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| Children | 6 |
James David Van Der Beek[1] (;[2] born March 8, )[3] is an American actor. Known for his portrayal of Dawson Leery on The WB's Dawson's Creek (–), he also played a fictionalized version of himself on the cult ABC sitcom Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23 (–), starred on CSI: Cyber as FBI Agent Elijah Mundo (–), and appeared as Matt Bromley on the first season of the FX drama Pose ().
His film credits include Varsity B
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Stan VanDerBeek
Biography
A pioneer in the development of experimental film and live-action animation techniques, Stan VanDerBeek achieved widespread recognition in the American avant-garde cinema. An advocate of the application of a utopian fusion of art and technology, he began making films in In the s, he produced theatrical, multimedia pieces and computer animation, often working in collaboration with Bell Telephone Laboratories. In the s, he constructed a "Movie Drome" in Stony Point, New York, which was an audiovisual laboratory for the projection of film, dance, magic theater, sound and other visual effects. His multimedia experiments included movie murals, projection systems, planetarium events and the exploration of early computer graphics and image-processing systems.
VanDerBeek was also intimately involved with the artists and art movements of his time; he filmed Happenings and merged dance with films and videos. VanDerBeek was a preeminent thinker, scientist, artist,