Over the past ten years, I have been working with a variety of media starting with painting and graphics, polarized light, constructions (heatpaintings, collages, etc.) developing an interest in motion pictures in 1957. I began work in animation, painting, stroke by stroke, animation: frame by frame, computers, on and off, and bit by bit, the sequence is inevitable; motion pictures as graphics in motion. Computers came to my attetion in 1965 with some of the graphic possibilities. I looked on the computer as a challenge. I consider the computer-logic systems and process of imagemaking; a fast, high speed car, that is difficult to learn how to drive, and like fast turns, is somewhat dangerous and unpredictable, however, in time-speed-memory-ideas and forms, it is breathtaking. I expect driving a computer down the road of art and sensibilities, will lead to flying: i.e. analog systems, and that will be very lovely and full of surprises that defy gravity and expected images, my own perspective as an artist and my instincts tell me that memory is the matrix of the human condition and computers are the pertinent extension of the real-time-mind of man, hooray for art and life.
-Stan VanDerBeek, March 22, 1969
