#vasulkas

[yhancik]

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/woody-vasulka-dead-1202673647

[supervisionnow-blog]

“ALLVISION incorporates and transforms physical space through video. In this installation, Steina transfigures the viewer’s orientation: a constructed physical space is engaged in conversation with the perceptual systems of the human eye and the camera lens. ALLVISION poses questions about the process of transcribing all-encompassing space and the ways in which perception can be altered or exaggerated by a mechanical interface.The machine allows a view of what would otherwise be impossible to perceive; it privileges vision to experience the implausible and fantastic.” — MARITA STURKEN

Via: http://www.vasulka.org/Steina/Steina_AllVision/AllVision.html

[toddjurgess]

“Cantaloup” (1980, STEINA) is my favorite kind of movie, showing the development and implementation of new, vital artistic technique (in this case, we see the building of the Digital Image Articulator, which Steina built with Woody Vasulka and Jeffrey Schier). A time capsule from a time when digital and electronic images were new and exciting.

[bearmod]

[videofeedback]

Electrons are the material of video art, and the monitor is the medium. Feedback is the process by which the electrons can be seen. It is created in a closed circuit between the TV camera and the monitor. When the camera  is pointed at the monitor, the result is images of monitor upon monitor upon monitor. When the lens is zoomed out, it leaves only the light which illuminates the movement of the electrons... The result is a beautiful and unpredictable environment of electronic organisms, live, very real, very enchanting and always fascinating... Each image had its own rhythm and pattern which develops according to the inner charging and discharging of the circuits. Once one knows how to find the image, its behavior can be watched and shaped. The most succesful images are those that are least manipulated... Woody says "It's like an organism, our own private pet. For us it is very organic."

extract from Who's Who in Video, The Vasulkas by Hollis Melton