Poem Field

{{Short description|Computer-generated animations by Stan Vanderbeek and Ken Knowlton}}

Poem Field is a series of 8 computer-generated animations by Stan Vanderbeek and Ken Knowlton in 1964-1967.{{cite news |last=Mizota |first=Sharon |url= https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-stan-vanderbeek-at-the-box-20140922-story.html |title=Review: Remembering the early computer-generated art of Stan VanDerBeek |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 25, 2014 |accessdate=June 7, 2020}} The animations were programmed in a language called Beflix (short for "Bell Flicks"), which was developed by Knowlton.{{cite book |last=Higgins |first=Hannah; Kahn, Douglas |title=Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts |publisher=University of California Press p. 329 |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-5202-6838-8}}

It is notable as a feature of one of the earlier SIGGRAPH conferences.