{"product_id":"the-experience-machine-gloria-sutton-9780262028493","title":"The Experience Machine: Stan Vanderbeek's Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn argument that the collaborative multimedia projects produced by Stan VanDerBeek in the 1960s and 1970s anticipate contemporary new media and participatory art practices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1965, the experimental filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) unveiled his \u003ci\u003eMovie-Drome\u003c\/i\u003e, made from the repurposed top of a grain silo. VanDerBeek envisioned \u003ci\u003eMovie-Drome\u003c\/i\u003e as the prototype for a communications system--a global network of Movie-Dromes linked to orbiting satellites that would store and transmit images. With networked two-way communication, Movie-Dromes were meant to ameliorate technology's alienating impulse. In \u003ci\u003eThe Experience Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, Gloria Sutton views VanDerBeek--known mostly for his experimental animated films--as a visual artist committed to the radical aesthetic sensibilities he developed during his studies at Black Mountain College. She argues that VanDerBeek's collaborative multimedia projects of the 1960s and 1970s (sometimes characterized as \"Expanded Cinema\"), with their emphases on transparency of process and audience engagement, anticipate contemporary art's new media, installation, and participatory practices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanDerBeek saw Movie-Drome not as pure cinema but as a communication tool, an \"experience machine.\" In her close reading of the work, Sutton argues that \u003ci\u003eMovie-Drome\u003c\/i\u003e can be understood as a programmable interface. She describes the immersive experience of \u003ci\u003eMovie-Drome\u003c\/i\u003e, which emphasized multi-sensory experience over the visual; display strategies deployed in the work; the \u003ci\u003ePoemfield \u003c\/i\u003ecomputer-generated short films; and VanDerBeek's interest, unique for the time, in telecommunications and computer processing as a future model for art production. Sutton argues that visual art as a direct form of communication is a feedback mechanism, which turns on a set of relations, not a technology. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gloria Sutton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262028492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262028493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.30h x 5.80w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2015","brand":"Gloria Sutton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086452109567,"sku":"9780262028493","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a5210a48-8bf7-49ff-85dd-5b9583d4c8c2.jpg?v=1769094755","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-experience-machine-gloria-sutton-9780262028493","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}