Orbital Obsessions (2020)

Documentation and experimentation in real time Orbital Obsessions is an example of early video selfportraiture eerie and calm in its radical implications for the medium The Vasulkas were interested in the building of control systems for the manipulation of electronic signals resulting in their collaborations with several designers and engineers One such example was the MultiLevel Keyer a tool designed in 1973 by George Brown at the request of the Vasulkas who were interested in expanding their range of source imagery Steinas manipulation of the image through keying layering and the manual control of luminance is seen here