Steina and Woody Vasulka

Steina Vasulka (born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir in 1940)Steina & Woody Vasulka Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Budapest and Woody Vasulka (born Bohuslav Vasulka on 20 January 1937 – 20 December 2019) are early known figures of video art. They are known for producing work since the early 1960s. 

The couple met in the early 1960s and moved to New York City in 1965, where they began showing video art at the Whitney Museum and founded The Kitchen in 1971. Steina and Woody both became Guggenheim fellows: Steina in 1976, and Woody in 1979.

Woody died on 20 December 2019 in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 82.

References

Other websites
 Vasulkas' web-presence
Steina and Woody Vasulka in the Video Data Bank
 Steina and Woody Vasulka, Mediateca Media Art Space
 Video Out, documentary about VJing's roots in video out and influence of Vasulkas. Features interview with Steina Vasulka.
 Steina and Woody Vasulka portfolio at Imai
 Tools Thomas Dreher: History of Computer Art Chap. IV.1.2 Video Synthesizers.www.listasafn.is 
 Switch! Monitor! Drift! (3:45) (1976) on UbuWeb
 The Kitchen: Steina and Woody Vasulka 

Category:1937 births
Category:2019 deaths
Category:1940 births
Category:Living people
Category:American artists