Steina Vasulka Movies

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

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

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

A "remix" of Hollis Frampton's film Artificial Light.

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

The Multikeyer and Scan Processor are used for creating the pulsating abstract composition showing six different cases of audio-video interface with...

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

Description from Portable Channel catalog: "This Program is a unique broadcast presentation of the Vasulka's recent experiments with the electronic...

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

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...

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

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

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

electro / opto / mechanical / environment

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

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

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

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