Steina and Woody Vasulka are widely acknowledged to be leading exponents in the field of media art. Their body of work is unique; spanning the entire range of formats and configurations of electronic media; single and multiple screen video, live performance, real time processing, installation and interactive technology. From an historical view point (insofar as we can consider the short history of media art) their contribution is evolutionary.

The Vasulkas' contemporary Nam June Paik first exhibited electronic media as a ‘gallery object’, whereas the Vasulkas’ were concerned with articulating and defining formal vocabulary which is specific to the electronic image. They established pioneering collaborations with engineers, leading to the development of new machines as opposed to the modification of existing media.

Through a process of fresh engagement and reconfiguration of key works from the Vasulka archive, this exhibition sets out to articulate critical points in the history of media art. These points include the notion that video art defined itself through the new instruments used to generate electronic images.

Vasulka Lab 1969-2005

at VIVID

Part 1 Video Work

2 - 18 March 2006

12 - 5.30pm, Weds-Sat

Featuring Participation, Artifacts, Machine Vision and The Art of Memory

Part 2 Installations

13 April - 6 May 2006

12 - 5.30pm, Weds-Sat

Featuring Theatre of Hybrid Automata and Machine Vision

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Publication Details

A publication was launched in April 2006 to coincide with Vasulka Lab part 2.

Fully illustrated Vasulka Lab is an essential document of the Vasulkas' extensive and varied practice. Featuring the Vasulkas in conversation with Don Foresta, essays by Chris Meigh-Andrews and Yasmeen Baig-Clifford, Curator of Vasulka Lab and director of VIVID.

ISBN 0-9552483-0-2

RRP £14.95 + p&p 

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