Stan Vanderbeek

[3] 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.

[citation needed] In the 1960s, VanDerBeek began working with Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine, as well as representatives of modern dance and expanded cinema including Merce Cunningham and Elaine Summers.

Once inside, the audience experienced a dynamic inter-dispersal of movies and images around them, created by over a dozen slide and film projectors filling the concave surface with a dense collage of moving imagery.

[citation needed] During the same period, he taught at many universities, researching new methods of representation, from the steam projections at the Guggenheim Museum to the interactive television transmissions of his Violence Sonata, broadcast on several channels in 1970.

A central work within the exhibition was Panels for the Walls of the World: Phase II, consisting of two 20-foot-long fax murals created by VanDerBeek in the spring of 1970 during his residency at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies.