Vasulka, Woody, 1937-....

Woody Vasulka was born Bohuslav Peter Vasulka in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1937. He studied film at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 1965 he and his wife, Steina, moved to New York where worked as a freelance editor for various large format screen projects. In 1969 he began working with the half-inch video "portapak" and soon left film to pursue working with electronic media. He and his wife collaboratively produced a pioneering body of work in the 1970's, earning them prestigious awards and international recognition. In 1971 they co-founded The Kitchen, a major alternative exhibition and media arts center in New York.

From the description of The commission [videorecording] / Woody Vasulka. [1983] (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 560677213