Steina Vasulka Movies

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

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

Matrix II explores the properties of images and sounds in the medium of video. Geometric shapes travel across a ‘matrix’ (grid) of...

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

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

This is an attempt to process abstract images without the use of camera. The central circle divides the creen into two parts that continually vibrate...

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

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

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

One of the works assembled in the series Sketches. These early sketches, created not without the irony, examine ways of manipulating the video image....

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...

electro / opto / mechanical / environment

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

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

Fellow violinist and artist Tony Conrad, in collaboration with software engineer Tom Demeyer, made for Steina the instrument seen in this title....

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

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

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...

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