Poem Field

Part 4 · Jun 30, 1967

Poem Field No. 1

"Words pulsate, then bleed into abstraction. Fields of color fragment into pixels or smear into mutating organisms. Swarming text grids explode into chaotic rainbow clouds, blinking dots, stars, and spirals. Snaking orange lines and pointillist textures form strobing mandalas, mosaic embroidery, and Pac Man architecture, tumbling geometries of throbbing color that dissolve into blue, pink, yellow, and green pixel noise." - Leo Goldsmith, writing about VanDerBeek's Poemfield series

Part 5 · May 29, 1968

Poem Field No. 5: Free Fall

COMPUTER ART SERIES is animated computer/graphic films. The series is called POEMFIELD. All of these films explore variations of poems, computer graphics, and in some cases combine live action images and animation collage; all are geometric and fast moving and in color. There are eight films in the computer animated art series. As samples of the art of the future all the films explore variations of abstract geometric forms and words. In effect these works could be compared to the illuminated manuscripts of an earlier age. Now typography and design are created at speeds of 100,000 decisions per second, set in motion a step away from "mental movies." POEMFIELD No. 2 and 5 are all colorized by Brown and Olvey.

Part 6 · TBA

Poem Field No. 4

Poem Field No. 4 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.

Part 7 · TBA

Poem Field No. 6

Poem Field No. 6 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.

Part 8 · TBA

Poem Field No. 8

Poem Field No. 8 is an computer-animated short made in the Beflix programming language.