Woody Vasulka talks about process, phenomena within media, and the veil of secrecy that is lifted through the practice with the medium.

Woody speaks about his personal experience growing up during WWII in Czechoslovakia, topics discussed : the theater of the battlefield, communism, ideologies, youth culture, and the post war experience.

Woody Vasulka talks about the post-war climate, ideology, immigrating to the United States, 'art strategy', the American avant-garde, mainstream culture, Steina's transformation from concert musician to working with electronic media, and their pioneering the exhibiting of electronic media.

Woody Vasulka talks about process, ethically immune systems (machines), revolution and subversion of the establishment through media, communism, populism, democracy, and finding strategies to subvert the delivery of the message.

Woody Vasulka talks about Nam June Paik, and the 60s and 70s in New York.

Woody Vasulka talks about moving to New York in the 1960s, Steina's musical practice, his early work and education in cinema, Nam June Paik, the post war avant-garde, poetry, literature, transformation of values and popular culture.

Woody talks about cinematic space, 2D and 3D space, perception and experience and why he has avoided practicing within virtual space.

Woody Vasulka discusses his rejection of materiality and initial distaste for objects in a gallery, war machines as concentrated knowledge, constructing installations as a way to practice his philosophy, 'Theater of Hybrid Automata' and cinematic vectors, the celestial navigator and Jeffrey Shaw's 'Golden Calf', 'Table I' and 'Table III', complexity in installations, the saturation of a system and his desire to operate as an amateur rather than a "true artist".

This video documents a few moments during the making of Woody Vasulka's series 'The Brotherhood'. The footage includes early tests of surveillance systems that were implemented to monitor and diagnose the installations remotely. Featuring Russ Gritzo and Bruce Hamilton who were the chief programmers and engineers of 'The Brotherhood' team.

Woody Vasulka presents his newest finds- a Celestial Navigator, a Gyroscope, and several controllers - to Russ Gritzo, an engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and one of the programmers and engineers on his team. These elements would later be integrated into 'The Brotherhood' series.

Woody describes the effects of living through WWII as a child in Czechoslovakia, the increased power of film as a medium after WW2 and the effects it had on his generation growing up under socialism.

Woody Vasulka describes his interest in machines as an environment to practice ideas, 'Theater of Hybrid Automata' as exoskeleton that carries media and his interest in the uselessness of the ritual.

Woody discusses his ideas surrounding the New Epistemic Space, looking for other works, anti-anthropocentric viewpoints, and the influence of Jazz on the 20th century.

Woody questions the new possibilities with the gathering of vast data sets, and what the future possibilities may be for using such data, and the drive to restructure the human condition.

Woody Vasulka describes his approach to interactivity and the problems he associates with interactivity in art as he explores the New Epistemic Space.Woody Vasulka describes his interest in feedback loops, the "new knowledge" of his generation, organizing time and energy into artistic/aesthetic units and the painful conclusion of electronic music in pop culture.

Woody Vasulka describes his interest in feedback loops, the "new knowledge" of his generation, organizing time and energy into artistic/aesthetic units and the painful conclusion of electronic music in pop culture.

Woody Vasulka discusses the deconstruction of the image, working with analog signals of audio and video as materials, and binary digital codes. Woody discusses his works 'Didactic Video: Organizational Models of the Electronic Image' (1975) and 'Syntax of Binary Images' (1978) both published in Afterimage.

Woody Vasulka and Gene Youngblood in the Vasulkas home studio discussing the exhibitions 'Machine Media' and Woody's series 'The Brotherhood.'

Woody Vasulka gives a talk to museum trustees during a tour of the Machine Media exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe New Mexico. Works featured in the video are 'The West', Theater of Hybrid Automata', 'Table I', and 'Table III' from 'The Brotherhood' series.

Steina performs 'The Maiden' from Woody's series 'The Brotherhood' at the NTT InterCommunications Center, Tokyo, Japan 1998.

Steina performs 'The Maiden' during Woody Vasulka's exhibition of 'The Brotherhood' series at the NTT InterCommunications Center in Tokyo, Japan (1998).

After the performance Steina gives a short demonstration, which is translated in Japanese, on how she uses the violin to perform and control video and sound, and 'The Maiden'.