Steina Vasulka Movies

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

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

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Cast: Robert Ashley

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

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Cast: Woody Vasulka

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steina Vasulka

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

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Busch

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Busch

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steina Vasulka

In 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...

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electro / opto / mechanical / environment

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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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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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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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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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Cast: Steina Vasulka

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jimi Hendrix

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

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

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The work is inspired by the surrealist René Magritte's unsettling painting La Legende doree, depicting French baguettes flitting in a window...

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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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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...

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

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

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

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A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steina Vasulka

Using one half of a convex mirror mounted within a glass cylinder, Steina trains the video camera eye dead center as she records the space...

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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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Cast: Doris Cross

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steina Vasulka

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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Cast: Woody Vasulka

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

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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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