Steina Vasulka Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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 the...

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

electro / opto / mechanical / environment

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

Against a field of swaying and halting yellow vegetation, another processed field: the image of the eponymous subject (performed by painter Doris...

A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

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

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

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

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

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

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

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