Vasulkas Come to Manipulated Image

Video icons, and long time Santa Feans, Steina and Woody Vasulka will present their work at the next Manipulated Image, at the Santa Fe Complex, including live interactive video by Steina. Get a glimpse of history from the people that made it, as they give their insights and reflections on the significant moments in the chronicles of video art, and point the way to the future. (Visit the Vasulka archives for more information on Woody and Steina.)

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Steina studied violin and music theory at the State Music Conservatory in Prague, and played with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. Woody studied at the School of Industrial Engineering in Brno, and the Academy of Performing Arts Faculty of Film and Television in Prague. In 1964 they married in Prague; shortly after, they moved to New York City.

Steina began working with video in 1969 and since then her various tapes and installations have been exhibited in the USA, Europe and Asia. Although her main thrust is in creating Video Tapes and Installations, she has also been involved in interactive performance in public places, playing a digitally adapted violin to move video images displayed on large video projectors.

Since 1969, after producing a pioneering body of tapes in collaboration with Steina, Woody Vasulka has investigated the narrative, syntactical, and metaphorical potential of electronic imaging. His development of an expressive image-language began as a rigorous deconstruction of the materiality of the electronic signal, and has evolved to the application of imaging codes and digital manipulation, to narrative strategies, and a series of interactive installations in the 1990s.

For more information, visit the Manipulated Image main page.