Steina Vasulka is a pioneering video artist who has been producing work since the 1960s. In 1971, she co-founded The Kitchen in New York with her partner, Woody Vasulka, an experimental institution for video, performance, and cross-disciplinary art that continues to shape video art history and inspire subsequent generations of artists. Her work has been exhibited in major museums and festivals worldwide, including the Whitney Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Berlin Film Festival, and the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavík. Steina became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1976 and represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 1997. In 2014, the Vasulka Chamber, a center dedicated to electronic and digital art, was established at the National Gallery of Iceland. Her work is part of significant collections, including the Tate Modern, Smithsonian American Art Museum, SFMOMA, and many others.

Woody Vasulka was a pioneer in electronic and digital image production. Throughout his lifelong exploration of machines—from cathode-ray televisions to digital computer systems—he, along with his wife Steina, was one of the first to view the electronic signal as an artistic medium. Woody Vasulka became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979 and received numerous honors and awards throughout his career, including honorary doctorates from The San Francisco Art Institute, Brno University of Technology, and the Prague Academy of the Arts. His work has been exhibited in major museums worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, The Whitney Museum, and others. His work is part of prestigious museum collections such as The Broad Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco, and The Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others.

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