The Vasulka’s: Steina: Machine Vision; Woody: Description at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Exhibition · Women Artists

Video cameras face a reflective sphere in a gallery installation, with CRT monitors arranged around the room. — Installation view of The VASULKAS / Steina: Machine Vision, Woody: Descriptions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1978. Photography by Kevin Noble. Courtesy of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Digital Assets Collection and Archives, Buffalo, New York. Image source.

Curated by Linda Cathcart, this exhibition featured the work of artists and partners, Steina and Woody Vasulka, pioneers of video art. Along with Nam June Paik and Bruce Nauman, the Vasulkas were some of the first artists to use video as the primary focus of their practice. The exhibition featured their video installation work as well as their experimental photography.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

buffaloakg.org

People

Bruce Nauman, Linda Cathcart, Nam June Paik, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka

Movements

video art

Filed under

Ideas: photography, video art
Technologies: video installation
People: Bruce Nauman, Linda Cathcart, Nam June Paik, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka
Exhibitions: Steina: Machine Vision, Woody: Description
Organisations: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Other subjects: Vasulka

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