Not on view
Date
2000
Classification
Installations
Medium
Six-channel video installation, color, sound, 21:19 min. looped
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Accession number
2003.307
Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Director's Discretionary Fund and the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee in memory of M. Anthony Fisher and Anne Fisher
Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate
Audio
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Steina, Mynd, 2000
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Steina: Todas mis obras están inspiradas en herramientas, de hecho.
Narrador: El artista, Steina.
Steina: Así que, esa también está inspirada en una herramienta. Se llama Imagen/Ine.
Narrador: Imagen/Ine es un software de procesamiento de video codesarrollado por Steina.
Steina: Imagen/Ine tiene muchos aspectos interesantes que se integraron a Mynd, pero fue, sobre todo, el descubrimiento de que, si distorsionaba la imagen en el plano horizontal, era totalmente diferente que si la distorsionaba en el vertical. Así que decidí hacerlo de ambas maneras para comparar. Luego, con el tiempo, se extendió a seis canales, todos con el mismo material visual, pero procesado de manera ligeramente distinta.
La obra tiene cuatro capítulos o cuatro divisiones diferentes. Dos de ellas utilizan unas imágenes de océanos preparadas, que se han realizado de manera idéntica pero que proporcionan un resultado muy distinto. Entre ellas, dispersé caballos, porque en Islandia los caballos son animales muy extraordinarios y, una vez que los has distorsionado o puesto en el paisaje de manera rígida, son aún mejores. Se quedan allí en la lluvia, soportando el frío y el clima, y pasa a ser algo muy espiritual si tú también te expones a la lluvia con la cámara y te empapas igual que ellos. Así que eso es, digamos, el primer, segundo, tercer o cuarto capítulo. El último capítulo sería, entonces, uno en el que yo tomara fotografías de fenómenos tales como vapores, cielos, agua que fluye y cosas por el estilo.
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Steina, Mynd, 2000
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Steina: All my works are actually inspired by tools.
Narrator: The artist, Steina.
Steina: So, this is also inspired by a tool. It is called Image/Ine.
Narrator: Image/Ine is video processing software that Steina co-developed.
Steina: Image/Ine has many interesting things that are integrated into Mynd, but mostly, it was my discovery that if I distorted the image on the horizontal, it was totally different than if I distorted it on the vertical. So I decided to do both by comparison. Then it eventually grew into six channels that all had the same image material but are processed slightly differently.
The work is in four chapters, or four different divisions. Two of them use these prepared ocean pictures that are identically made, but give a very different result. In between them, I dispersed horses, because in Iceland, horses are very kind of remarkable creatures, and once you have warped them or stiffened them up in the landscape, they are even better. They stand there in the rain and the cold, stand into the weather, and it becomes very kind of spiritual, if you stand out with them in the rain with your camera and get totally wet like they are. So, that is, let's say, either [the] first, second, third, or fourth chapter. The last chapter, then, would be, I take kind of phenomenal pictures, like vapors and skies and water running and things like that.
Exhibitions
Installation photography
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Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). Steina, Mynd, 2000. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
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Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). Steina, Mynd, 2000. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
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Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). Steina, Mynd, 2000. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
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Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). Steina, Mynd, 2000. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018
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Installation view of Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28, 2018–April 14, 2019). Steina, Mynd, 2000. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
From the exhibition Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018