Steina Vasulka Movies

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...

A film by Steina and Woody 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...

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

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

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

Soundsize continues the Vasulkas' investigation into the relationship of sound and image. Here a pattern of dots is modulated by sounds generated...

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

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...

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...

An Interface not only between two continually switched over images but also between documentary tape, imagery taken from "reality", and its...

B&W Vasulka project with a rotating camera, keyed and alternating directions. This experiment is excerpted in their 1977 work Orbital Obsessions.

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

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

electro / opto / mechanical / environment

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