Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

Homemade TV: The Electronic Image

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

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Violin Power

Violin Power

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

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Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video

Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video

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

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Video: The New Wave

Video: The New Wave

The New Wave is the seminal compendium of independent video work in the early 1970s. Written and narrated by Brian O'Doherty, this overview of the...

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The Vasulka Effect

The Vasulka Effect

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody through various TV screens. He does the same and...

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Somersault

Somersault

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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Music in the Afternoon

Music in the Afternoon

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

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Orbital Obsessions

Orbital Obsessions

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

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Binary Lives

Binary Lives

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,...

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Funtime at the Vasulkas

Funtime at the Vasulkas

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...

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Switch! Monitor! Drift!

Switch! Monitor! Drift!

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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Vasulka Video

Vasulka Video

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

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Homemade TV: Vasulkas II

Homemade TV: Vasulkas II

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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