Stephen Beck is an American artist, writer, toy designer and inventor who pioneered video synthesis and interactive video art. Examples of his work have appeared in collections including the

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, the

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, New York and the

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. He holds several patents in

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based video display technology and energy management. His writings have appeared in

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and the

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and he was artist in residence at KQED – NCET for the National Center for Experiments in Television.

References

Stephen Beck at UC Berkeley's Center for New Media

Wired Magazine – May 1998
Direct Video Synthesizer (Analog), 1970 Beck Video Weaver (Digital), 1974

External links

Official Site
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Video Weavings (excerpt) 1976
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