Steina Vasulka

This period compilation of documentaries shot with a Portapak camera from the early era of video experimentation offers an immediate view of the...

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This work shows paradoxical space relations in electonic depths, where the common space coordinates no longer apply and where the images become...

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A broadcast presentation of Steina and Woody Vasulka's experiments with the electronic image. Featuring a 15-minute "jam session" of improvised video...

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Progeny is a collaboration with sculptor Bradford Smith. Smith's organic and sensual sculptural forms are transformed by the merging of one of...

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A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

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The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody through various TV screens. He does the same...

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Real time development of a video feedback, processed and controlled through a video keyer. Sound results from video signals, interfaced with audio...

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A 3-minute study of a wrinkle-faced old woman by one or both of the Vasulkas, produced late-career.

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In Studies cycle, abstract studies are assembled, which document the Vasulka's early work with electronic material. The visual aspect of Tissues is...

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The New Wave is the seminal compendium of independent video work in the early 1970s. Written and narrated by Brian O'Doherty, this overview of the...

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Against a field of swaying and halting yellow vegetation, another processed field: the image of the eponymous subject (performed by painter Doris...

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An Interface not only between two continually switched over images but also between documentary tape, imagery taken from "reality", and its...

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Although the video artwork Evolution cites the well-known image of hominid evolution, it is more interested in the evolution of the media than in the...

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“Selected Treecuts” is a formal examination of the distinction between camera-generated and digital images, and a layered juxtaposition...

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In 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs for broadcast on WNED in Buffalo, New York. In the...

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In this early formal experiment with analog image processing, the Vasulkas investigate multiple camera set-ups and keyers to articulate spatial,...

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Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent...

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B&W Vasulka project with a rotating camera, keyed and alternating directions. This experiment is excerpted in their 1977 work Orbital Obsessions.

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In Warp, Steina makes use of her two favourite features of the Image/ine software, written by Tom Demeyer. The first feature –...

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Soundsize continues the Vasulkas' investigation into the relationship of sound and image. Here a pattern of dots is modulated by sounds generated...

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This is a documentary about video artists Bill & Louise Etra, Woody & Steina Vasulka, and Kit Fitzgerald & John Sanborn.

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A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and...

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STEINA: “My background is in music. For me, it is the sound that leads me into the image. Every image has its own sound and in it I attempt to...

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