Steina

The first comprehensive monograph in over a decade celebrating the work of pioneering video artist Steina, who is known for pushing perspective beyond the human-centered realm.

Accompanying the related exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center and Buffalo AKG Art Museum,
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.

Steina, born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir, studied violin and music theory in Reykjavik before attending the State Music Conservatory in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1965, she emigrated to New York City. By the late 1960s, she began to focus entirely on video work, and in 1971, cofounded The Electronic Kitchen (later The Kitchen), an experimental electronic media space. Her work has been shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and many other places.

A copublication with the MIT List Visual Arts Center and Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Product details

• Authors: Natalie Bell, Helga Christoffersen, Tina R Ryan, Tina Rivers Ryan
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2025
• EAN: 9780262551625
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55162-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 211 mm x 310 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business; The arts: general issues, ART / Individual Artists / General, ART / Film & Video, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art