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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The Commission
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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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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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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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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This period compilation of documentaries shot with a Portapak camera from the early era of video experimentation offers an immediate view of the...
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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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The work is inspired by the surrealist René Magritte's unsettling painting La Legende doree, depicting French baguettes flitting in a window frame....
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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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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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Noisefields
This is an attempt to process abstract images without the use of camera. The central circle divides the creen into two parts that continually...
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With Voice Windows (1986), Steina renews her efforts to generate a complex sound-image interface
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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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The Multikeyer and Scan Processor are used for creating the pulsating abstract composition showing six different cases of audio-video interface...
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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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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...
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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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