COLLECTION NAME:
Don Yannacito Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Don Yannacito Collection
Title:
Steina and Woody Vasulka, First Person Cinema
Name:
Vasulka, Steina, 1940-
Name Role Term Text:
speaker
Name:
Vasulka, Woody, 1937-2019
Name Role Term Text:
speaker
Resource Type:
Audio
Genre:
presentations (communicative events)
Place Created:
Boulder (Colo.)
Date Created:
1979-10-08
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 audiocassette (45 min., 2 sec.)
Form:
audiocassettes
Abstract:
As an event in the First Person Cinema series at the University of Colorado Boulder, video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka give a public talk about their work in analog and digital video image and sound. The presentation is seperated into three seperate segments: an unidentified piece serving as an introduction to analog video; the short "Steina" (1976), serving as a summary of their analog video work; and samples from their more recent work with digital video and computer processing. They discuss their creative and technical processes, explaining elements of analog and digital video production.
Note:
00:00:00 Woody Vasulka begins by referencing the emergence of video art and their interest in the medium. He introduces the three segments of their screening. He describes their home studio. 00:03:36 Audio cuts to after the first segment of the program. 00:03:55 Question from audience, difficult to discern. Woody discusses their creative process, often the exploration of a new piece of equipment or technological system, including chroma key feedback and scan processing, which he explains at length. 00:08:30 Audio cuts briefly. Steina Vasulka compares expense and requirements of film and video production, mentioning custom-designed video equipment. 00:10:05 Steina briefly discusses her and Woody’s division of labor and compares their work. She introduces a piece called “Steina” from the series “Six Programs for Television" (1976). 00:12:36 Sound from video begins. 00:13:44 Steina’s voice in video is heard, discusses playing violin. 00:14:30 The Beatles’ “Let it Be” is heard, with people chatting over. 00:16:00 Steina’s voice in video continues. She discusses wiring a violin to control a video image. Sound of violin is heard. 00:18:49 Steina’s voice in video continues. She discusses images of river in Iceland. 00:19:45 Unidentified sound from video. 00:24:30 Steina’s voice in video continues, describes video image and effect on screen and explains the technical process that creates it. 00:26:47 Video continues to play, with little audio. 00:27:28 Recording audio cuts out briefly. 00:27:53 Steina’s voice in video continues. She discusses camera set-up and effect of image on screen. 00:29:30 Recording audio cuts out briefly. Steina’s voice in video continues on same topic. 00:32:34 Recording audio cuts to after video has played. Steina introduces a break in the program. 00:33:00 Audio cuts to after break. Woody introduces third segment of the program, explains the use of computers to compose and process images and sound. 00:36:47 Audio cuts to sound of video work playing. 00:37:13 Audio cuts ahead. Woody describes process used to create the work, explaining video buffers. 00:38:45 Woody comments on image continuing to play on screen. Little audio while video continues to play. 00:39:22 Woody discusses their current unstructured work, exploring a new “language” in their process. 00:41:40 Question from audience, about video grid system. Audio is difficult to discern. 00:42:29 Sound from video clip is heard. 00:42:40 Woody continues to discuss video grid system. Audio is difficult to discern. 00:44:33 Sound from video clip is heard, while Woody continues to speak. 00:44:57 Audio cuts to electronic sound. 00:45:02 End of recording
Note Type:
Timecode description
Subject Topic:
Video art
Subject Topic:
Digital video
Subject Topic:
Video recording
Identifier:
narv_yannacitoDon_034_1979-10-08_vasulkas_a.mp3
Physical Location:
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Shelf Locator:
COU: 5045 | Tape 034
Date Captured:
2024
Internet Media Type:
audio/mp3
Digital Origin:
born digital
Access Condition:
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