The first comprehensive monograph in over a decade celebrating pioneering video artist Steina.
Published for the exhibitions at MIT List Visual Arts Center and Buffalo AKG Art Museum, this book brings renewed recognition to Steina (b. 1940, Iceland), tracing her work from early collaborations with partner Woody Vasulka to independent explorations of optics and non-anthropocentric subjectivity. It follows her practice from downtown New York to Buffalo to New Mexico and Iceland's landscapes, featured in her immersive video environments of the 1990s and 2000s. Combining imaging technologies with reflective orbs, Steina reoriented humanity's relationship to nature and expanded media access to the natural world.
With contributions by scholars Gloria Sutton, Joey Heinen, and Ina Blom.
Born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir, she studied violin in Reykjavik and at Prague's State Music Conservatory before emigrating to New York in 1965. By the late 1960s, she focused entirely on video, cofounding The Kitchen in 1971. Her work has been exhibited at Centre Georges Pompidou, Whitney Museum, and internationally.
A co-publication with MIT List Visual Arts Center and Buffalo AKG Art Museum.