Steina Vasulka (born
Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir in 1940) and
Woody Vasulka (born
Bohuslav Vasulka in 1937) are early pioneers of
video art, and have been producing work since the early 1960s. The couple met in the early 1960s and moved to
New York City in 1965, where they began showing video art at the
Whitney Museum and founded
The Kitchen in 1971. Steina and Woody both became Guggenheim fellows: Steina in 1976, and Woody in 1979.