Woody Vasulka Trailers
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Most Popular Woody Vasulka Trailers
Total trailers found: 44
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).
Mars: An Optic Aspic Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Set to Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War, Bill Etra's original performance on 9 B&W monitors was shot in real-time on 16mm color film by Woody Vasulka.
The Vasulka Effect Trailer (2020)
01 October 2020
The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody through various TV screens.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Matter Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
The image and sound are being simultaneously generated from a single source, which at the same time shapes the visual pattern as well as electronic sound of the resulting signal.
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.
Voice Windows Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
With Voice Windows (1986), Steina renews her efforts to generate a complex sound-image interface
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reminiscence Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
This tape was created when Woody visited his native Moravia with a Portapak camera. In the course of signal modulation an alteration in the field of raster lines is taking place, in which the lines are being vertically deformed and gain the contours of objects (with the use of a Rutt/Etra synthesizer).
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.
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.
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.
Art of Memory Trailer (1987)
22 October 1987
Manipulating a variety of sources, Vasulka uses creative imaging tools to situate historical images against Southwestern landscapes of incredible beauty.
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.
The Whaling Station Trailer (1964)
01 January 1964
short documentary film on an Icelandic whaling station
Scan Processor Studies Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
The SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES are a collection of works by Woody Vasulka & Brian O'Reilly. The full work is of total approximate duration of 45 minutes, with sections of various lengths, textures, and dynamic qualities.
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.
