Steina Vasulka Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

This is a documentary about video artists Bill & Louise Etra, Woody & Steina Vasulka, and Kit Fitzgerald & John Sanborn.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...