Steina Vasulka

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

1-2-3-4

1974

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

Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

1975

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C-Trend

1974

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

Distant Activities

1972

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

Switch! Monitor! Drift!

1976

MovieDescription from Portable Channel catalog: "This Program is a unique broadcast presentation of the Vasulka's recent experiments with the electronic image. It is not...

Homemade TV: Vasulkas II

1975

MovieThe 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 emerging video...

Video: The New Wave

1975

MovieIn 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs (Steina, Objects, Digital Images, Transformations, Vocabulary, Matrix)...

Vasulka Video

1978

MovieA 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 Schier designed a...

Funtime at the Vasulkas

2006

MovieIn the Land of the Elevator Girls uses the elevator as a metaphorical vehicle to reveal an outsider's gaze into contemporary Japanese culture. The continual opening...

In the Land of the Elevator Girls

1989

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Vocabulary

1973

MovieWith Voice Windows (1986), Steina renews her efforts to generate a complex sound-image interface

Voice Windows

1986

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

Solo for 3

1974

MovieThis work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative strategies: In each...

The Commission

1983

MovieSTEINA: “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 capture something...

Orka

1997

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

Old Lady El Toppo

MovieSteina trained as a classical violinist, pushing her experience as a professional musician into the electronic realm with this seminal work. Originally performed in...

Violin Power

1978

MovieIn Flux, Steina films a river from a wide angle, deforming the image to the point of creating a sort of radiating, aqueous ball - like a liquid planet turning in...

Flux

1977