Steina /
"Accompanying the related exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center and Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Steina brings renewed recognition to Steina (b. 1940, Iceland), tracing her oeuvre from early collaborative works with her partner Woody Vasulka to her independent explorations of optics and a libera...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Buffalo, New York :
The MIT Press ; MIT List Visual Arts Center ; Buffalo AKG Art Museum,
2025.
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| Summary: | "Accompanying the related exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center and Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Steina brings renewed recognition to Steina (b. 1940, Iceland), tracing her oeuvre from early collaborative works with her partner Woody Vasulka to her independent explorations of optics and a liberated, non-anthropocentric subjectivity. It follows her practice from downtown New York to Buffalo to the vast landscapes of New Mexico and Iceland, which appear in her immersive video environments of the 1990s and 2000s. Venturing into nature and combining imaging technologies with reflective orbs, Steina reorientated the human body's relationship to nature and expanded how we access the natural world through media. Scholars including Gloria Sutton, Joey Heinen, and Ina Blom consider how Steina's generative sense of play gave way to methods of processing and computation; contextualize Steina alongside a group of her peers who shared an obsession with the electronic signal; and argue for her interest in video as a proto-virtual space. Steina has never felt more relevant."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 227 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780262551625 0262551624 |