Steina Vasulka Movies

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

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

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

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

A short documentary on the life and art of Steina and Woody Vasulka, produced in 1996. The Vasulkas speak candidly about their work and worldviews,...

This symbolic journey evokes the personal creative wandering of the Vasulkas. The landscape, shot from a car window while driving in the Santa Fe...

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

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

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

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

Documentation and experimentation in real time, "Orbital Obsessions" is an example of early video self-portraiture, eerie and calm in its radical...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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