Funtime at the Vasulkas (2006): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2006, Funtime at the Vasulkas is a documentary film directed by Steina Vasulka, running about 7 minutes.

What it’s about. A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and Schier designed a prototype device, the Vasulka Imaging System, or Digital Image Articulator. It was one of the first digital audiovisual tools to generate image algorithms and convert them to an analog signal. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo became one of these places of, teaching and mediating, in the area of Media Art, developing into what was perhaps to the most influential school for media in the twentieth century. Teaching there under the leadership of the founder Gerald O’Grady were the (meanwhile canonized) structuralist, avantgarde filmmakers Hollis Frampton, Tony Conrad, and Paul Sharits, documentary filmmaker James Blue, video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka, and Peter Weibel.

Who’s in it. Funtime at the Vasulkas stars Tom Busch, Hollis Frampton, Jeff Schier and Paul Sharits, among others.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Funtime at the Vasulkas page.

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