Iluminace, 2006 (vol. 18), issue 2
Editorial
Editorial
Lenka Dolanová, Woody Vasulka
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):5-8 
The introduction to the monothematic issue of Illuminace, dedicated to the work of Steina and Woody Vasulka, presents some of the contributions. In the second part, a letter from Woody Vasulka to the author of the introduction is published.
Articles
Woody Vasulka's Spherical Knowledge. From Pinhole Camera to Pinball Machine
Gerald O'Grady
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):9-30
The study extends the detailed technical analysis of Woody Vasulka's work into a broader cultural context and is full of references to various fields of knowledge. The author believes that a general education, coupled with the ability to micro-analyze the physical or electronic engineering aspects of image and sound, is necessary to understand the work of Steina and Woody Vasulka.
Some Notice of Vasulka Video 1973-1974
John Minkowski
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):31-39
The text is based on the program notes for the 1978 traveling exhibition of videotapes The Moving Image State-Wide: 13 Tapes by 8 Videomakers. Among the filmmakers were Stein and Woody Vasulka. The notes were intended to describe for the audience some of the custom electronic tools, procedures, and effects that the Vasulkas used in their early works. Among the technical equipment that the article discusses in detail are: video synthesizer, colorizer, keyer, horizontal traveling, etc.
Masters of Codes
Peter Weibel
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):41-47
The text attempts to define the specificity of the language of video, emphasizing that Woody and Steina Vasulka are the discoverers of the medium of video and the first to give video its own language. The task of the artist, according to the author, is to discover and develop the language of each medium in which he creates, working on all its levels, formal and syntactic, moving between language and perception.
Reading Tools, Writing the Image
Maureen Cheryn Turim
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):49-70
The text was originally intended for the catalogue of an exhibition of works by Steina and Woody Vasulka in San Francisco in 1996. The authors acknowledge the Vasulkas' preeminence in video production and discuss their work.
Video and Computer. The Aestetics of Steina and Woody Vasulka
Yvonne Spielmann
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):71-86
Excerpt from a study of the work of Steina and Woody Vasulka.
And We Were Modernists. The Moravian and Czech Beginnings of Woody Vasulka
Vít Janeček
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):87-102
The study analyses an almost unknown area of Woody Vasulka's work, his documentary films made during his studies at FAMU.
What Were They Cooking There? Cooks, Thei Kitchen and the Appetite for Fresh Video
Lenka Dolanová
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):103-132
The essay focuses on Woody Vasulka's work after his arrival in the USA after 1965, especially on the early history of The Kitchen Theatre, which was founded by Woody and Steina Vasulka in 1971 and run until 1973.
Beginnings of Czech Video Art
Bohdana Kerbachová
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):133-158
The author focuses on the work of the only official group that was dedicated to video art in the Czech Republic between 1985 and 1992, the Video Branch, which was established within the Union of Czechoslovak Visual Artists. The article presents the social situation in the then Czechoslovakia, where video art developed in a very specific way, in a limiting technological and informational vacuum. It thus expands the idea of what video art could mean in different contexts.
Edition
Technocentric Determinism
Woody Vasulka
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):199-203
This theoretical essay by video art pioneer Woody Vasulka explores the ethics and aesthetics of contemporary technology-based art.
Theater of Hybrid Automata
Woody Vasulka
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):205-208
A theoretical essay by video art pioneer Woody Vasulka is devoted to the artistic intention and description of the so-called theatre of hybrid automata, an attempt to define and expand the set of syntactic tools operating in dramatic space.
The Commission
Woody Vasulka
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):209-216
Script by Woody Vasulka for the video film Commission.
Interviews
Syntax of Binary Images
Charles Hagen
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):159-178
Interview of photographer, critic and video maker Charles Hagen with Woody Vasulka about computer art.
Interview with Woody Vasulka at His Santa Fe, NM Studio, 2 March 1998
Erkki Huhtamo
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):179-187
The interview was conducted on the occasion of Woody Vasulka's exhibition in Tokyo and discusses, from the perspective of media theory, Vasulka's efforts to disrupt classical theatrical installation in a set of works using discarded wartime technologies.
First Meetings elated a Dreamery. An Interview with Petr Skala
Bohdana Kerbachová
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):189-198
Petr Skala, documentary film director and one of the pioneers of Czech video art, talks about the activities of the Video Association, intermedia and experimental work and Woody Vasulka.
Appendix
Aspects of Elektronic Avant-Garde: Steina and Woody Vasulka
Lenka Dolanová
Iluminace 2006, 18(2):217-218
An outline of the main ideas and research directions of the author's future work, which is to deal with the complex work of Steina and Woody Vasulka. Through their work, the author tries to demonstrate the transformations that the art of video has undergone since its inception.