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Title:	Steina: Playback
Date:	3/14/2025 - 6/30/2025
Address:	Buffalo AKG Art Museum, 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222
Location:	Buffalo, NY
Hours:	Thursday - Monday: 10am - 5pm, Friday: 10am - 8pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $22
Web Page:	https://buffaloakg.org/art/exhibitions/steina-playback
Contact Info:	716 882 8700

Details:

Steina: Playback presents the first solo exhibition in over a decade of Steina, the pathbreaking media artist whose work traverses video, performance, and installation. Since cofounding The Kitchen in New York City in 1971, Steina has created works shaped by her experimental approach to electronic processing tools, persistent explorations of what she called “machine vision,” and an enduring ethos of play. A classically trained violinist, Steina took up video in 1970, bringing to her new instrument—initially a Sony Portapak—a musician’s attention to the “majestic flow of time.” Unlike many of her peers working in video in its early decades, the Icelandic-born artist did not consider US television culture a central force against which her video activity was defined. Instead, human perception was a key site of confrontation as she sought the exuberant and even utopian possibilities of an “intelligent, yet not human vision.”