Poem Field No 1

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Poem Field No 1
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DirectorStan VanDerBeek
NR 5 minAnimationPoem Field PosterPart of Poem Field
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Words pulsate then bleed into abstraction Fields of color fragment into pixels or smear into mutating organisms Swarming text grids explode into chaotic rainbow clouds blinking dots stars and spirals Snaking orange lines and pointillist textures form strobing mandalas mosaic embroidery and Pac Man architecture tumbling geometries of throbbing color that dissolve into blue pink yellow and green pixel noise Leo Goldsmith writing about VanDerBeeks Poemfield series

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Original Language:English

Poem Field Movies

Poem Field is the name of a series of 8 computer-generated animations by Stan Vanderbeek and Ken Knowlton in 1964-1967. The animations were programmed in a language called Beflix (short for "Bell Flicks"), which was developed by Knowlton.