In 1969, the New York based Steina and Woody Vasulka, of Icelandic and Czechoslovak origin respectively, began their first explorations of video, fully aware of the new space-time relationships the electronic image produced. From black and white to colour, initial studies of video feed-back to the generation of images through sound and vice versa, from analogue synthesis to digital treatment in real time, they maintained a rigour of approach, with each successive tape revealing a creative force that was commensurate with the conditions facing artists of the 20th century in the technological visual arts.
Producing new forms and effects specific to the electronic image, and achieving exceptional visual results, the Vasulkas thus developed the tools they needed for their productions and the apparatus for their presentation.
" In short, a dazzling use of the medium" (M. La Bardonnie –
Le Monde).
Indispensable for anyone who, regardless of current fashion, wants to understand and appreciate the electronic image, from its very foundations up until "The West", a truly electronic "Western" on the process of vision.