Steina Vasulka és una artista pionera del videoart, activa des de la dècada de 1960. El 1971, va cofundar The Kitchen a Nova York amb la seva parella, Woody Vasulka, una institució experimental dedicada al vídeo, la performance i l’art interdisciplinari, que continua influint en la història del videoart i inspirant noves generacions d’artistes. La seva obra s’ha exposat en importants museus i festivals a nivell mundial, incloent-hi el Whitney Museum, el Centre Georges Pompidou de París, el Festival de Cinema de Berlín i la Galeria Nacional d’Islàndia a Reykjavík. Steina va ser nomenada Guggenheim Fellow el 1976 i va representar Islàndia a la Biennal de Venècia el 1997. El 2014, es va establir la Cambra Vasulka, un centre dedicat a l’art electrònic i digital, a la Galeria Nacional d’Islàndia. La seva obra forma part de prestigioses col·leccions com les del Tate Modern, el Smithsonian American Art Museum, el SFMOMA, entre moltes altres.

Woody Vasulka va ser un pioner en la producció d’imatges electròniques i digitals. Al llarg de la seva vida, va explorar el diàleg amb les màquines, des de televisors de raigs catòdics fins a sistemes informàtics digitals. Juntament amb la seva esposa Steina, va ser un dels primers a considerar el senyal electrònic com un mitjà artístic. Woody Vasulka es va convertir en becari de la Guggenheim Foundation el 1979 i va rebre nombrosos honors i premis al llarg de la seva carrera, inclosos doctorats honoris causa de l’Institut d’Art de San Francisco, la Universitat Tecnològica de Brno i l’Acadèmia de les Arts de Praga. La seva obra ha estat exposada en importants museus d’arreu del món, com el Centre Georges Pompidou, el Whitney Museum i molts altres. Les seves obres formen part de prestigioses col·leccions de museus com The Broad Museum, el Museu d’Art Modern de Nova York i San Francisco, i el Smithsonian American Art Museum, entre d’altres.

Kristín Scheving (Reykjavik, 1973) is a visual artist, curator and the founder and director of 700IS Reindeerland Experimental Film and Video Festival in Iceland from 2005 – 2015. She is the founder and director of Vasulka Chamber, center of Electronic and digital Art, at the National Gallery of Iceland: a collaborative project with pioneers of video art Steina and Woody Vasulka. Scheving has curated, directed and produced many art events and exhibitions, including Independent People for Reykjavík Arts Festival in 2012 and other visual art projects for the Nordic House in Reykjavík. She studied fine arts in the École  Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in France, and went on to study at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where she completed a BA(Hons) in Visual Art followed by an MA in Media Arts in 2003. Kristin has worked internationally as a curator and a visual artist for over a decade. She currently lives and works in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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Don Foresta (Buffalo, NY, 1938) is a research artist and theoretician, using new technologies as creative tools.  He is a specialist in art and science whose principal work in the field, “Mondes Multiples”, will soon be published in a second edition in English and French.  He is formerly a professor at the Ecole Nationale Supèrieure d’Arts Décoratifs – Paris, Ecole Nationale Supèrieure d’Arts – Paris/Cergy and a research fellow at the London School of Economics.  He has been working for over 35 years in developing the network as an artistic tool and is presently building a permanent high band-width network, MARCEL, for artistic, educational and cultural experimentation which now has 350 confirmed members. His first on-line exchange in 1981 was between the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT where he was a fellow and the American Center in Paris where he was director of the Media Art program.  He was a commissioner to the 42nd Venice Biennial in 1986 where he built one of the first computer networks between artists.  Foresta holds a doctorate degree from the Sorbonne in Information Science. He currently lives and works in Paris, France. He currently lives and works in Paris, France.

Last update: April 20th, 2017