Steina Vasulka Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...

STEINA: “My background is in music. For me, it is the sound that leads me into the image. Every image has its own sound and in it I attempt to...

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

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

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

In the Land of the Elevator Girls uses the elevator as a metaphorical vehicle to reveal an outsider's gaze into contemporary Japanese culture. The...

A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

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

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...

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

electro / opto / mechanical / environment