Steina and Woody Vasulka

Calligrams, 1970

In the rescanned image of Calligrams (1970), the horizontal drift is "deliberately maladjusted" (Steina) causing the image to repeat vertically. While the horizontal visual "violation" of stretching the image is reflected in the audio noises, the rescanning camera, set at a 90-degree angle to the screen, reinforces the electronic structure in its verticality, where the instability of the "frame" appears in transition to spatiality.