Steina Vasulka Trailers

Participation Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

This period compilation of documentaries shot with a Portapak camera from the early era of video experimentation offers an immediate view of the independent New York art scene (concerts and theater perfomances on the streets and in the clubs of downtown).

C-Trend Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

Artificial Light x20 Trailer (1969)

01 January 1969

A "remix" of Hollis Frampton's film Artificial Light.

The Commission Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative strategies: In each of the eleven segments of this "electronic opera", different effects are used.

Homemade TV: Vasulkas II Trailer (1975)

01 September 1975

Description from Portable Channel catalog: "This Program is a unique broadcast presentation of the Vasulka's recent experiments with the electronic image.

Binary Lives Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

A short documentary on the life and art of Steina and Woody Vasulka, produced in 1996. The Vasulkas speak candidly about their work and worldviews, and the piece features excerpts from their early works and a glimpse into their '90s output.

Distant Activities Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

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

Music in the Afternoon Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

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

Lilith Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

Against a field of swaying and halting yellow vegetation, another processed field: the image of the eponymous subject (performed by painter Doris Cross) riles and emits unintelligibly to the viewer.

Orka Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

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 capture something flowing and living.

Somersault Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

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 immediately around her.

Vasulka Video: Steina Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

In 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs for broadcast on WNED in Buffalo, New York.

Switch! Monitor! Drift! Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

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

Discs Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

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

Homemade TV: The Electronic Image Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

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

Sexmachine Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

Vasulka Video Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

In 1977 the Vasulkas were commissioned by public television to create six half-hour programs (Steina, Objects, Digital Images, Transformations, Vocabulary, Matrix) for broadcast on WNED in Buffalo, New York.

Warp Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

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

Voice Windows Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

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

Orbital Obsessions Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

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

Group Portrait: Six Artists in Video Trailer (1978)

11 April 1978

This is a documentary about video artists Bill & Louise Etra, Woody & Steina Vasulka, and Kit Fitzgerald & John Sanborn.

Tissues Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

In Studies cycle, abstract studies are assembled, which document the Vasulka's early work with electronic material.

In Search of the Castle Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

This symbolic journey evokes the personal creative wandering of the Vasulkas. The landscape, shot from a car window while driving in the Santa Fe area, is gradually transformed with more and more complicated imagery techniques.

Soundsize Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

Soundsize continues the Vasulkas' investigation into the relationship of sound and image. Here a pattern of dots is modulated by sounds generated from a synthesizer, changing size and shape in a visual manifestation of electronic sound.

Floor to Walls to Ceiling Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

electro / opto / mechanical / environment

Golden Voyage Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

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

Calligrams Trailer (1970)

06 June 1970

A film by Steina and Woody Vasulka

Video: The New Wave Trailer (1975)

24 December 1975

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 emerging video field includes examples of guerrilla television and "street" documentaries, early explorations with image-processing and synthesis, and performance video.

Solo for 3 Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

In this early formal experiment with analog image processing, the Vasulkas investigate multiple camera set-ups and keyers to articulate spatial, temporal and sound/image manipulation.

Funtime at the Vasulkas Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool.

Interface Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

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

Soundgated Images Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

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

Progeny Trailer (1981)

01 January 1981

Progeny is a collaboration with sculptor Bradford Smith. Smith's organic and sensual sculptural forms are transformed by the merging of one of Steina's Machine Vision devices — a rotating, mirrored sphere with pre-programmed camera movements and optical transpositions — with Woody's digital processing.

Flux Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

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 planet turning in space.

Thierry Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

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

Telc Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

Minnesota Landscapes Trailer (1980)

08 October 1980

Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent video artists, all commissioned to the state of Minnesota.

Evolution Trailer (1969)

01 October 1969

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 evolution of the human species.

Vocabulary Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

Double Lunar Dogs Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

Based on Robert Heinlein’s 1941 story “Universe,” Double Lunar Dogs presents a vision of post-apocalyptic survival aboard a “spacecraft,” travelling aimlessly through the universe, whose passengers have forgotten the purpose of their mission.

Noisefields Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

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 hypnotically and change colors to the accompanying rumbling of modulated sound.

Selected Treecuts Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

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

Vermin of the Vortex Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

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

1-2-3-4 Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

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

In the Land of the Elevator Girls Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

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

Matrix II Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

Matrix II explores the properties of images and sounds in the medium of video. Geometric shapes travel across a ‘matrix’ (grid) of cathode ray tube (CRT) screens.

Violin Power Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

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

Cantaloup Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

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