VANDERBEEK, Stan

His earliest distinguished work was animation that depended upon collaging images found in popular magazines, sometimes abetted by his own drawings, all reminiscent of outrageous Surrealism. VanDerBeek also made ink drawings directly on an animation stand, documenting their progress on film. Possessed of a restless, forward-looking imagination, VanDerBeek was using television imagery in film as early as One (1958–59) and computer graphics in the mid-1960s, collaborating with Ken Knowlton at Bell...