Finding aid to the Stephen C. Beck papers, 1966-2016 PFA.MSS.015
Mary Jackson
Contributing Institution:
BAMPFA Film Library
Title: Beck (Stephen C.) papers
Creator:
Beck, Stephen, 1950-
Identifier/Call Number: PFA.MSS.015
Physical Description:
19 boxes
Physical Description:
2 Containers
Date (bulk): 1966-2016
Language of Material:
English
.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Accruals
Accruals are likely in a further donation by Beck.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was dontated by Stephen Beck in 2015.
Biographical / Historical
Stephen C. Beck (born 1950) is an artist and electrical engineer who has been making groundbreaking experimental video and
film works, as well as electronic toys, in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1960s. His achievements as a pioneering video
artist in the early 1970s included designing and building custom video synthesizers, and he was a core member of the National
Center for Experiments in Television (NCET), a video art lab based out of KQED in San Francisco between 1967-1975. In the
late 1970s and 1980s he started a company that designed and licensed electronic toys and video games, including a talking
game tie-in for Star Wars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_A7jNA9IeE) and an Atari game benefiting Greenpeace called "Save
the Whales."
Beck was a leading figure of the 1960s-1970s California electronic art scene and collaborated with other notable filmmakers
and musicians in California and beyond, including Jordan Belson, Warner Jepson, Harry Smith, and many others. Trained in composition,
Beck's musical works include audio synthesizers and music for his own and others' films. In 2005, Beck was appointed as a
lecturer in the UC Berkeley College of Engineering where he was also an artist in residence. There, he began a years-long
project in collaboration with students at UC Berkeley.
Beck's primary legacy however, remains in video art, where his signature blend of psychedelic video synthesis and electronic
music set the standard for West Coast video art of the 1970s. He also created immersive video installations in this period
and beyond. Among these, the Videola (1972) is a collaborative sculptural work which projects a spherical video image within
a gallery space. Nearly thirty years after exhibiting his Video Weavings in 1971, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive (BAMPFA) mounted a retrospective exhibition featuring Beck and the NCET. Following this 2000 exhibition, Videospace
(https://bampfa.org/program/videospace-0), Beck donated many of his films and videos to BAMPFA, and in 2015 he donated the
majority of his personal papers to the BAMPFA's Film Library and Study Center. His video artworks were also included in the
2018 exhibition at BAMPFA, Way Bay, and he remains in regular communication with BAMPFA curators and staff.
Processing Information
Finding aid written by Mary Jackson, 2021-08.
Beck also donated a print of experimental filmmaker Harry Smith's "Film #23" which has been accessioned into the BAMPFA film
and video collection.
Related Materials
Numerous video works by Steve Beck are in the BAMPFA film and video collection. The "Videola" is in the BAMPFA permanent art
collection.
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of personal and business papers related to Beck's artwork, exhibitions, and commercial electronics;
photo documentation including slides, positive prints, and negatives of videos and gallery installations; schematics and
drawings related to artworks and commercial ventures; papers related to Beck's teaching and academic pursuits, including his
published research articles; brochures, posters, and other ephemera related to Beck's exhibitions; published and unpublished
writings about Beck; as well as special materials such as the Star Wars board game, a video game cartridge, and floppy disks
with Computer Assisted Drafting files.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Literary rights are
retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Berkeley
Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Film Library and Study Center.
Separated Materials
Kodachrome slides in the collection were rehoused and relocated to boxes 16-19. Additional photographic prints have been temporarily
removed for rehousing. Any other items removed from the collection and relocated, such as posters, are noted within each series
or subseries.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Video art--United States--Exhibitions
Video art--California
Experimental films--United States
Experimental films--California--San Francisco
Beck, Stephen, 1950-
Series 1: Personal papers
1966-2011
Physical Description: 5 boxes
Scope and Contents
The series includes a variety of personal documents belonging to Stephen Beck. Documents in this series include academic papers
while a student at the University of California, Berkeley, articles, essays, and creative writings during Beck's professional
career, as well as personal correspondence, biographical profiles, artist's statements, transcripts, and personal notes.
Arrangement
The series is arranged chronologically. Undated documents or materials are filed alphabetically at the end of a folder or
the subseries.
Subseries 1: Biographical information
1970-2007
Physical Description: 5 Folders
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes biographical profiles, listings of video compositions, exhibitions, and presentations, artwork background
notes, and artist's statements.
Box 1, Folder 1
Biographical information
approximately 1970-1975, 1997-2007, undated
Physical Description: 1 Folder
Subseries 2: Correspondence
bulk: 1981-2016
Physical Description: 5 FolderThis subseries includes incoming and outgoing professional and personal letters, notes, postcards, greeting cards, and mementos.
Correspondence includes a 1975 meeting invitation to explore the establishment of a post-production facility to provide services
to independent video artists and groups, which later became the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC).
Separated Materials
Correspondence with enclosed oversize sketches removed and moved to Box 14.
Box 1, Folder 2
Letters, postcards, and mailer
1968-1979, approximately 1968
Box 1, Folder 3
Letters, letters with enclosures, and greeting cards
1981-1989
Box 1, Folder 4
Letters, email, faxes
1990-1999
approximately 1990-1999
Box 1, Folder 5
Greeting cards, emails, letters
2000-2016
Box 1, Folder 6
Notes, greeting cards, memorandum, momentos, undated
Subseries 3: Writings
1969-2014
Physical Description: 5 Folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes papers written by Stephen Beck as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, articles and
essays about his artworks, and drafts of pieces submitted to the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA).
Box 1, Folder 8
Professional papers
1972-1975, approximately 1970-1975
Box 1, Folder 9
Professional papers
1990-1999, undated
Box 2, Folder 10
Professional papers
2000-2013
Box 2, Folder 11
Professional papers, continued
2013-2014
Subseries 4: Fellowships
approximately 1970, 1973-2008
Physical Description: 6 Folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes a proposal and budget for The Rockefeller Foundation's Video Artist Fellowship, documents and materials
related to several fellowship and residency positions and from Stephen Beck's involvment with the Electronic Arts Intermix
(EAI) (https://www.eai.org/), a non-profit video and media art organization. Beck was appointed to various faculty positions
including Visting Fellow and Executive in Residence at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in the College
of Engineering and UC Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, and a visiting fellow position at Hochschule
für Kunste in Bremen, Germany where Beck was a guest instructor for media and video art classes.
Box 2, Folder 12
Proposals and submissions
approximately 1970-1977
Box 2, Folder 13
Electronic Arts Intermix
1973-1985
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, contract agreements, exhibition materials, and writings from various publications.
Box 2, Folder 14
Hochschule fur Kunste
1996
Scope and Contents
Notes, drawings, correspondence, business cards, and articles while a visting fellow at Hochschule für Kunste in Bremen, Germany.
Box 2, Folder 15
UC Berkeley Visiting Industrial Fellow (1 of 2)
2005
Box 2, Folder 16
UC Berkeley Visiting Industrial Fellow (2 of 2)
2006-2008, undated
Box 2, Folder 17
UC Berkeley The Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (CET)
2006
Scope and Contents
Notes and evalutions from two courses taught by Stephen Beck while an Executive in Residence CET, "Business Art and Technology"
(BAT) and "Business Opportunities in Art and Technology" (BOAT) in the Spring 2009 semester.
Separated Materials
A series of newspaper articles were originally included in a folder marked "BAT" for the "Business Art and Technology" (BAT)
course taught by Stephen Beck at the University of California, Berkeley. These newspapers were relocated to Box 15.
Subseries 5: Reference material
1967-2016
Physical Description: 5 Folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes books, articles, papers, and manuals used as research.
Separated Materials
Books from this collection were removed and moved to Box 20. Book topics include audiovisual, copy art, video, digital video,
and United States based creations.
Box 3, Folder 18
Articles and papers
1967-1979, approximately 1978, undated
Box 3, Folder 19
Articles and papers
1982-1988
Box 3, Folder 20
Articles and papers
1991-1997, approximately 1990-1991
Box 3, Folder 21
Articles and papers
2007-2009, 2016
Subseries 6: Colleagues
1978-1997, undated
Physical Description: 1 Folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes documents, programs, articles, interviews, and other materials related to colleagues of Stephen Beck.
Box 3, Folder 23
Lynn Hershman
1978-1988, 1997
Scope and Contents
This folder contains a a variety of materials including a diagram for an art piece, an interview with Lynn Hershman conducted
by Stephen Beck, and prints of actress Tilda Swinton. Stephen Beck provided funding for Lynn Hershman's interactive video
art disc "Lorna."
Subseries 7: Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
1975, 2006
Physical Description: 2 Folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes documents and materials for a meeting by the Rockefeller Foundation to explore the establishment of
a post-production facility which later became the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), and materials related to BAVC's 40th anniversary
celebration. Stephen Beck was a founding member of BAVC.
Box 3, Folder 24
The Rockefeller Foundation Meeting
1975
Box 3, Folder 25
BAVC 40th Anniversary
2016
Scope and Contents
This file contains documents and materials related to BAVC's 40th anniversary celebration in San Francisco, California, at
which Stephen Beck was an honoree panelist. Items include a program booklet, copy of a digital photo of Stephen Beck, and
a BAVC lapel pins.
Subseries 8: Transcripts
1979-1980, undated
Physical Description: 2 Folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes transcripts from interviews with Stephen Beck for The American Film Institute Seminar, the American
Zoetrope "Electric Visual Conference" in 1980, and an unknown event.
Box 4, Folder 26
Transcripts
1979
Scope and Contents
Transcript from The American Film Insitute Seminar with Stephen Beck held on January 20, 1979 in Beverly Hills, California
with the Center for Advanced Film Studies.
Box 4, Folder 27
Transcripts
1980, undated
Scope and Contents
Transcript from the American Zoetrope "Electronic Visual Conference" in July 1980 and a partial transcript from an unknown
event.
Subseries 9: Notes and drawings
approximately 1966-1979, approximately 1990-2011, undated
Physical Description: 5 Folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes a variety of printed and handwritten notes and drawings over the course of Stephen Beck's career including
notes and drawings from chemistry experiments while Beck was in high school.
Box 4, Folder 28
Notes and drawings
approximately 1966-1979
Box 4, Folder 29
Notes and drawings
approximately 1980, 1988-1989
Box 4, Folder 30
Notes and drawings
1993-1997, approximately 1990-1995, approximately 2011
Box 4, Folder 31
Notes and drawings
undated
Box 4, Folder 32
Teaching notes
approximately 1973-1974
Subseries 10: Magazine covers
1987-1989, 1990-1991, 1996
Physical Description: 2 Folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries include magazine covers from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc. (SMPTE) Journal and
Mondo 2000 magazine, as well as covers from international publications. Stephen Beck was a creative consultant and writer
for Mondo 2000 magazine for several years.
Box 4, Folder 33
Magazine covers
1987-1989
Scope and Contents
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc. (SMPTE) Journal covers.
Box 4, Folder 34
Magazine covers
1990-1991, 1996
Scope and Contents
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc. (SMPTE) Journal covers, Eye-Com and Advertising magazine covers (international),
and Mondo 2000 magazine.
Subseries 11: Event programs
1972-1976, 1982-1996, 2002
Physical Description: 5 Files
Arrangement
The series is arranged chronologically. Undated documents and materials are filed alphabetically at the end of the subseries.
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes programs and invitations for a variety of exhibitions, festivals, and conferences.
Separated Materials
An oversize event poster for "Ritual Moon Music" at Mills College in Oakland, California (undated) was removed and moved to
Box 14.
Box 4, Folder 35
Event programs
1972-1977
Scope and Contents
Letter from the Electrical and Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) Department at the University of California, Berkeley
awarding Stephen Beck the "Outstanding Alumnus Award in Electrical Engineering."
Subseries 12: Pamphlets and guides
1990-1996, approximately 1990-1999, undated
Physical Description: 2 Folder
Arrangement
The subseries is arranged chronologically. Undated documents and materials are filed alphabetically at the end of a folder.
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes manuals, product guides, price lists, and pamphlets.
Box 5, Folder 40
Pamphlets and guides
1990-1996
Scope and Contents
Price lists, consulting services brochure, and products guide.
Box 5, Folder 41
Pamphlets and guides
undated
Scope and Contents
Product guide, price list, and information brochure.
Subseries 13: Miscellaneous
1971-2007, undated
Physical Description: 2 Folder
Arrangement
The series is arranged chronologically. Undated documents or materials are filed alphabetically at the end of a folder or
the subseries.
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous notes and documents including correspondence and notes related to the legal transfer of Radio Free FM radio
station equipment to the Kingdom of Tonga, as well as notes regarding a Director of Other position at Google.
Separated Materials
Overize Aquarius astrological sign poster moved to Box 14.
Box 5, Folder 42
Miscellaneous
1971, 1991-2007
Scope and Contents
Museum of Modern Art appointment calendar, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers packet including a completed
"Request for Publisher Name Clearance" form, and a copy of Stephen Beck's Bachelor of Science degree from the University of
California, Berkeley.
Box 5, Folder 43
Miscellaneous
undated
Scope and Contents
Technicolor running time vs length wheel, printed cover of the book "Video Culture A Critical Investigation," business cards
for "Stephen Beck, Videographer," business cards for colleagues, copies of photographic prints, computer generated image of
Stephen Beck, and a Chakra Coloring Book.
Subseries 14: Recorded interviews
1984, 1999
Physical Description: 2 Folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes a 1984 recorded interview with Stephen Beck conducted by Jerry Wilcox, KCBS Radio, San Francisco,
California, and a 1999 Mondo 2000 magazine interview with video artist Bill Viola (https://www.billviola.com/) by Stephen
Beck.
Box 5, Folder 44
Recorded interviews
1984
Scope and Contents
Letter from The Osborn Group, Public Relations Inc. with an audiocassette of Stephen Beck's KCBS Radio interview in San Francisco,
CA.
Box 5, Folder 45
Recorded interviews
1999
Scope and Contents
"Mondo 2000" Magazine: Bill Viola Interview by Stephen Beck with video artist Bill Viola. The interview was a four-part series
on video artists and technology artists. The items include a two-sided audiocassette tape and a floppy disk.
Separated Materials
Disks are currently separated to be imaged for preservation.
Subseries 15: Photographic material
bulk: 1970-1974
Physical Description: 1 Folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes a variety of professional and personal photographic prints.
Box 5, Folder 46
Photographs
approximately 1970-1974, approximately 1980, undated
Scope and Contents
Photographs and negatives: Chicago Institute of Art Museum store (1 black and white photo), contact prints of Stephen Beck,
electronic products and works (6 sheets), color prints of an individual named "Bunny" (2 photos), "Life Images" of Stephen
Beck and his rose gardent (1 negative, 9 prints), photographs of Stephen Beck in New York City 1972, 1973, or 1974 (16 prints
and 4 negatives), miscellaneous undated photos (4 prints).
Series 2: National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET)
bulk: 1970-1973
Physical Description: 6 Folder
Scope and Contents
The National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET) was an artists' research center initially affiliated with San Francisco's
public television station, KQED. This series includes materials related to the development and construction of the Beck Direct
Video Synthesizer. Development of the video synthesizers began while Stephen Beck was an undergraduate student in electronic
engineering and electronic music at the University of Illinois, Urbana. The Beck Direct Video Synthesizer #2, was developed
in 1970-1971 while Beck was an artist in residence at NCET from 1970 until 1973.
Separated Materials
An NCET informational poster was removed and moved to Box 14.
Box 6, Folder 47
Direct Video Synthesizer
1969-2005
Scope and Contents
This folder contains schematic drawings, diagrams, and notes for the Beck Direct Video Synthesizer from 1969 and 1971, as
well as background information on the video synthesizer from an exhibition in 2000.
Box 6, Folder 48
Videola
1973
Scope and Contents
The "Videola" is in the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) permanent art collection.
Box 6, Folder 49
Notes
1970-2000
Scope and Contents
This file contains NCET brochures, meeting notes, handwritten notes, program and exhibition notes, and exhibition programs
including a card for the NCET "Videospace" exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) in 2000.
Box 6, Folder 52
Exhibition flyers and brochures
1975, 2000
Series 3: Video artwork
1970-2016
Physical Description: 25 Folder
Scope and Contents
This series includes a variety of documents and materials related to Stephen Beck's video art, compositions, and sculptures,
including notes, schematics, floppy disks, and photographs. Video artwork represented in this series includes Cycles (https://vimeo.com/ondemand/stevebeckcycles),
Illuminated Music (https://www.stevebeck.tv/ill.htm), Video Weavings (https://vimeo.com/ondemand/videoweavings), Union (https://vimeo.com/182960707),
and Noor (https://vimeo.com/183047705).
Arrangement
The series is arranged chronologically. Undated materials are filed alphabetically at the end of the subseries.
Subseries 1: Cycles
1969-2015, undated
Physical Description: 1 Folder
Box 7, Folder 53
Cycles
1969-2015, undated
Subseries 2: Illuminated Music
1972-2011
Physical Description: 1 Folder
Box 7, Folder 54
Illuminated Music
1972-2011
Subseries 3: Video Weaver and Video Weavings
1975-2005
Physical Description: 7 Folder
Box 7, Folder 55
Notes and schematics
1974-1975
Box 7, Folder 57
Notes and schematics
1976
Box 7, Folder 58
Notes and schematics
1978
Box 7, Folder 59
Video Weaver floppy disks
approximately 1982-1985
Physical Location: Disks are currently separated to be imaged for preservation.
Scope and Contents
Folder contains 5 5.25-inch floppy disks formatted for Apple DOS versions 3.2.1 and 3.3A
Box 7, Folder 60
Notes and schematics
approximately 1983-1992
Box 7, Folder 61
Miscellaneous
2000-2005, undated
Subseries 4: Union
1975-1977
Physical Description: 1 Folder
Box 7, Folder 62
Union
1975-1977
Scope and Contents
Timing cards, notes, publicity, photographic prints
Subseries 6: Brain Soma
1993
Physical Description: 1 Folder
Subseries 2: UC Berkeley FIAT LUX and NOOR
2006-2011
Physical Description: 6 Folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes correspondence, project documents, and other materials related to the NOOR project, part of the Fusion
in Art, Technology, and Life (FIAT) LUX, a research project launched by Stephen Beck in 2006. The FIAT LUX project explored
the intersection of art and technology and operated within the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest
of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California, Berkeley.
Box 8, Folder 64
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
2007
Scope and Contents
Documents and materials related to the CITRIS in Europe Symposium held July 11-12, 2007 at Imperial College and University
College in London, England.
Box 8, Folder 65
Project plans and lectures
2006-2007
Box 8, Folder 66
Project plans and lectures, continued
2008, undated
Box 8, Folder 68
Reference materials
2004, undated
Box 8, Folder 69
Notes, prints, and drawings
undated
Subseries 3: Smaller-scale works
approximately 1970-1974, undated
Physical Description: 8 Folder
Box 9, Folder 70
Notes and schematics
approximately 1970-1974
Box 9, Folder 71
Notes and graphics
1976
Scope and Contents
Artwork graphics on slide projector transparencies.
Box 9, Folder 72
Prints
1975, undated
Scope and Contents
Digital prints of miscellaneous art pieces.
Box 9, Folder 74
Video Fractalizer
approximately 1996
Scope and Contents
Schematics for an Analog Video Fractilizer.
Box 9, Folder 75
Foz Music Project
1996-1997
Scope and Contents
Lyrics and correspondence with Barry Fasman, Sir Real and The Mondoids, and Tommy Chaltas (Curb Records).
Box 9, Folder 76
Graphics and storyboards
undated
Scope and Contents
"Thought Forms" storyboard, graphics of computer images of various circles.
Box 9, Folder 77
Tesla Movie Design
undated
Scope and Contents
Script for "Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla--A Film Story," and notes and drawings. Stephen Beck provided visual design for
the project.
Series 4: Beck-Tech
1978-2011
Physical Description: 8 Folder
Arrangement
The series is arranged chronologically. Undated documents or materials are filed alphabetically at the end of a folder or
the subseries.
Scope and Contents
This series includes documents and materials related to Beck-Tech and Lapis Technologies. Beck-Tech was an electronic design
and consulting company established by Stephen Beck in 1978 and based in Berkeley, California. Beck-Tech was ultimately sold
to Lapis Technologies.
Separated Materials
Oversize schematics poster and Beck-Tech framed business license moved to Box 14.
Container 1
Star Wars Electronic Laser Battle Game
approximately 1978
Scope and Contents
Beck designed the Star Wars Electronic Battle Game, an electronic interactive board game based on the 1977 Star Wars movie.
It was licensed to Kenner, which distributed and marketed the game. Included is a Federal Express waybill for the demonstration
copy of the game to Stephen Beck, November 1978.
Box 10, Folder 78
Security Tek
1983
Scope and Contents
Security Tek product and project including schematics, main logic board, display and keyboard module, an Telco board.
Container 2
Save the Whales
1983
Scope and Contents
"Save the Whales" is an Atari video game created by Beck-Tech intended to benefit Greenpeace. The game may never have been
formally published.
Box 10, Folder 79
Background materials
1984-1989, undated
Scope and Contents
Press releases, correspondence, diagram, advertisements, and conference overhead project sheets.
Box 10, Folder 80
MacMovies
1986
Physical Location: Currently separated for reformatting.
Scope and Contents
Four copies of a commercial software program produced by Beck-tech, "MacMovies." Includes an installaion 3.5-inch floppy disk
and a user manual. MacMovies was an animated graphics program for the Apple Macintosh intended to display moving images for
presentations or personal slideshows.
Box 10, Folder 81
Background materials
1997-2011, undated
Scope and Contents
Notes, drawings, articles, and correspondence.
Box 10, Folder 82
Notes and schematics
1978-1986
Box 10, Folder 83
Beck-Tech promotional and marketing materials
undated
Scope and Contents
Brochure, Beck-Tech information packet, Beck biographies, advertisement, and computer generated image of Stephen Beck.
Series 5: Inventions
1975-2005
Physical Description: 4 Folder
Arrangement
The series is arranged chronologically. Undated documents and materials are filed alphabetically at the end of a folder.
Scope and Contents
This series includes documents and materials related to Stephen Beck's inventions including the Phosphotron an imaging visual
technology (https://www.stevebeck.tv/phosphotron.htm). Beck's many patented inventions include an energy management computer
system for Safeway Stores, electronic toys, and video games.
Box 11, Folder 84
Patents
1982-2005
Scope and Contents
Toys and games United States patents.
Box 11, Folder 86
Research clippings
1955-1974
Scope and Contents
Articles used for background research.
Box 11, Folder 87
Research clippings
1975-1980, undated
Scope and Contents
Articles used for background research.
Series 6: Exhibitions and festivals
1969-2011
Physical Description: 10 Folder
Arrangement
The series is arranged chronologically. Undated documents or materials are filed alphabetically at the end of a folder.
Scope and Contents
This series includes documents and materials related to exhibitions of Stephen Beck's video artwork, compositions, scultures
and includes a program from a 1970 performance by Stephen Beck of his piece "Prextyphia" at The Kannert Center for the Performing
Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus.
Separated Materials
The following exhibition posters were removed and moved to Box 14:
"Our Darling Other Visions" by Paul Mohr and Steve Beck
Ward Nasse Gallery, New York, New York
1970-1971
"Circuit: A Video Invitational" featuring Stephen Beck
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Henry Gallery, University of Washington; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield
Hills, MI
1973
"Stephen Beck: Experimental Video"
University of California, Santa Cruz
1974
"Video West and East"
Anthology Film Archives, New York, New Yori
1976
"New American Cinema" featuring Stephen Beck and Jordan Belson
Madison Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin
Undated
"Video Slumber Party"
Sausalito Art Center, Sausalito, California
Undated
Box 12, Folder 88
"ARTEC 91" Art and Technology, Nagoya, Japan
1991
Scope and Contents
Exhibition of Stephen Beck's ambient video installation "Atomospheres" (https://www.stevebeck.tv/atmos.htm) at ARTEC 91, an
international art and technology competition and exhibition in Nagoya, Japan.
Box 12, Folder 89
"ARTEC 91" Art and Technology, Nagoya, Japan, continued
1991
Scope and Contents
Exhibition of Stephen Beck's ambient video installation "Atomospheres" (https://www.stevebeck.tv/atmos.htm) at ARTEC 91, an
international art and technology competition and exhibition in Nagoya, Japan.
Box 12, Folder 90
"Kwang-Ju Biennale" Kwang-Ju, Korea
1995
Scope and Contents
Stephen Beck was an invited artist at the Info Arts Exhibition, Kwang-Ju Biennale in 1995 in Kwang-Ju, Lorea. Beck exhibited
"Video Weaver Reincarnated" his interactive video sculpture.
Box 12, Folder 91
Festival of Contemporary Music for All – CoMA
1997
Box 12, Folder 92
Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art
1996
Scope and Contents
A one man show and lecture on video and media work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia. Beck also premiered
his "Paper Television" series (https://www.stevebeck.tv/paper.htm).
Box 12, Folder 93
Hightech Art Planning (HARP) symposium
2005
Scope and Contents
A presentation by Stephen Beck, "Virtual Light and Cybervideo: Visual Sensology for the 1990's and Beyond" in Tokyo, Japan.
Box 12, Folder 94
Smithsonian Institute's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
2005, undated
Scope and Contents
"Illuminated Music 2" (https://www.stevebeck.tv/ill.htm) was presented at the "Visual Music: 1905-2005" exhibition at the
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Smithsonian Institute's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2005.
Box 12, Folder 95
Exhibitions, film festivals, and conferences
1969-1978
Separated Materials
Oversized poster removed and moved to Box 14.
Scope and Contents
Materials related to public programs in which Beck participated.
Box 12, Folder 96
Exhibitions, film festivals, and conferences
1980-1997
Scope and Contents
Materials related to public programs in which Beck participated.
Box 12, folder 97
Exhibitions, film festivals, and conferences
2000-2011, undated
Scope and Contents
Materials related to public programs in which Beck participated.
Series 7: Articles
Physical Description: 8 Folder
Arrangement
The series is arranged chronologically. Undated documents or materials are filed alphabetically at the end the series.
Scope and Contents
This series includes published articles and reviews of Stephen Beck's video artworks and inventions in a variety of magazines,
newspapers, journals, and newsletters.
Box 13, Folder 98
Articles and reviews about Beck and his work
1972-1979, approximately 1970-1975
Box 13, Folder 99
Articles and reviews about Beck and his work
1980-1981
Box 13, Folder 100
Articles and reviews about Beck and his work
1981-1986
Box 11, Folder 101
Articles and reviews about Beck and his work
1985-1989
Box 11, Folder 102
Articles and reviews about Beck and his work
1992-1999
Box 11, Folder 103
Articles and reviews about Beck and his work
2000-2009
Box 11, Folder 104
Research clippings
1971-2000
Scope and Contents
Articles with an unknown reference to Stephen Beck, clipped for reference and research.
Box 11, Folder 105
Articles and reviews about Beck and his work, undated
