Steina Vasulka Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

This work shows paradoxical space relations in electonic depths, where the common space coordinates no longer apply and where the images become...

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

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

electro / opto / mechanical / environment

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...

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

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