In fall 2024, the MIT List Visual Arts Center will present the first solo exhibition in over a decade of Steina, the pathbreaking media artist whose work traverses video, music, and technology through a commitment to spontaneity and play.

Opening on October 26th, 2024, the exhibition is curated by Natalie Bell, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center; Helga Christoffersen Curator-at-Large and Curator, Nordic Art and Culture Initiative, Buffalo AKG Art Museum. It is organized by MIT List Visual Arts Center with Buffalo AKG Art Museum, where it will travel in March 2025.

This exhibition will trace Steina’s creative practice from early collaborative works with Woody Vasulka to her independent explorations of optics, machine vision, and a liberated, non-anthropocentric subjectivity. It follows her practice from downtown New York and Buffalo to the vast landscapes of New Mexico and Iceland, pictured in the immersive, multichannel video installations she created in the 1990s and 2000s. Containing more than a dozen single-channel works, as well as several multi-monitor matrices and large-scale multi-screen installation environments, this focused retrospective will survey the breadth of Steina’s work and vision from 1970 to the present. The show seeks to both bring renewed recognition to the artist’s innovative vision and argue for her influence and relevance today as a younger generation of artists consider modes of art-making that resist easy commodification and question the place of technology and the human in relation to larger ecological and planetary concerns.

Learn more about the exhibition here.