The Experience Machine: Stan Vanderbeek's Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema

by Gloria Sutton

An argument that the collaborative multimedia projects produced by Stan VanDerBeek in the 1960s and 1970s anticipate contemporary new media and participatory art practices.

In 1965, the experimental filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) unveiled his Movie-Drome, made from the repurposed top of a grain silo. VanDerBeek envisioned Movie-Drome as the prototype for a communications system--a global network of Movie-Dromes linked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262028492
• ISBN13: 9780262028493
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher