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...

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

Cantaloup is an informal documentary on the Vasulkas' Digital Image Articulator, an imaging device they designed with Jeffrey Schier. Using a...

Alienation in academia beneath the chandeliered opulence of a political correctional facility that caters to clashing cultures with chicken fajitas...

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

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

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

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

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

A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

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

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...

electro / opto / mechanical / environment

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

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