“Arnold Dreyblatt: In regards to Steina's Violin Power, if you apply the terminology ‘archive’ to this work then one might say that the archive discussion is really about access. The archive is sleeping and dusty and hidden, and she's in fact playing or performing the archive. So it's a kind of performative regurgitation of historical material of hers. And also a bonding of her own technical facility from childhood [as a violinist] in connection with live accessing of the electronic and digital medium. There is always something very playful about her work. Both optical and optically playful, and certainly less didactic than in Woody's approach.”

Chris Hill & Arnold Dreyblatt, “Interview with Arnold Dreyblatt regarding Steina and Woody Vašulka and their archiving commitments and practices,” (2024)

link: https://vkba.vasulkakitchen.org/cs/interview-with-arnold-dreyblatt