“Allvision [in Mindframes exhibition, ZKM, 2006] was a new realization of a piece she has been reworking since 1976, each time fashioning it in a site-specific manner, reconfiguring its space in which the piece is staged. The recurrent feature is a mirrored ball around which pivots a mechanical armature with a video camera mounted at each end, and with closed circuit monitors displaying these camera images just beyond. At all times the cameras, by means of the reflective sphere, capture the entire 360 degree surround (hence the title) including the presence of the observer, who can see his or her image both in the mirrored surface and on the television screen; Allvision is thereby a subtly interactive work.”

Steina: “I get an alternate viewpoint that’s not a human viewpoint. Because most of the pictures, 99.9% of pictures we see are always from this human point of view … So it is a kind of way for me to break out of that too, the hegemony of the human eye.”

Steina: “The machines I used in the Machine Vision [which includes Allvision] came out of Woody’s background, he was the machine maker and he constructed them mostly for his work in film. I play them my own way as I used to play my music. I also engage my violin for image control.”