Steina: Playback
October 26, 2024 - January 12, 2025
Steina's experimental work with electronic processing tools explores “machine vision,” and often translate musical modes into the visual realm to reveal an electronic sublime. This focused retrospective of the pioneering media and video artist featured single-channel works, multi-monitor arrays, and immersive video environments.
Playback was accompanied by the artist’s first comprehensive monograph in over a decade (MIT Press) and traveled to the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (2025), the National Gallery of Iceland and Reykjavik Art Museum (2025–26), and Haus der Kunst (2026).
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