culture: intercom

Stan VanDerBeek, Symmetricks, 1972

Stan VanDerBeek and Kenneth Knowlton, Poemfield no. 2, 1966

Stan VanDerBeek Poemfield #2 explored the representation of lines of text from a poem with geometric alignment, transformation and composition. The style of copy is pixellated and there is interplay between the background patterns and the foreground text. While not overly breathtaking seen in today’s climate of hypermedia and rich graphical environments, for its time it must have caused quite a stir.

in Early American Computer Animation #2 - review