Steina vasulka biography
Steina Vasulka was born in Reykjavík, Iceland and trained as a classical musician and violinist and was a member of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.!
Steina & Woody Vasulka
Steina was born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1940.
She studied violin and music theory, and in 1959 she received a scholarship from the Czechoslovak Ministry of Culture to attend the music conservatory in Prague.
Biography.
In 1964 she joined the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra.
Woody Vasulka was born Bohuslav Peter Vasulka in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1937. He studied metal technology and hydraulic mechanics at the School of Industrial Engineering, Brno, where he received a baccalaureate degree in 1956.
Later he attended the Academy of Performing Arts, Faculty of Film and Television, in Prague, where he directed and produced several short films.
The Vasulkas met in Prague in the early 1960's, married, and moved to New York City in 1965.
There, Steina worked as a freelance musician and Woody as a multiscreen film editor, experimenting with electronic sounds, stroboscopic lights, and, by 1969, with video. In 1971, with Andreas Mannik, they founded