Steina and Woody Vasulka

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Steina Vasulka (born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir in 1940)[1] and Woody Vasulka (born 1937) are pioneers of video art, having practiced in the genre since its early days in the late 1960s.[2]

Steina was born in Reykjavík, Iceland and trained as a classical musician before receiving a scholarship at the Prague Conservatory in 1959. Woody was born in Brno, now in the Czech Republic and trained as an engineer before studying television and film production at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The couple met in the early 1960s and moved to New York City in 1965, where they pioneered the showing of video art at the Whitney Museum and founded The Kitchen in 1971. Since 1980 they have been based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[3]

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  1. ^ Steina & Woody Vasulka Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Budapest
  2. ^ Audible Imagery: Sound and Photography Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
  3. ^ Steina and Woody Vasulka Video Data Bank, Chicago

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