Steina Vasulka Steina Vasulka was born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadotir in Roykjavik, Iceland, 1940. She studied violin and music Theory and in 1959 received a scholarship from the Czechoslovakian Ministry of Culture to attend the State Music Conservatory in Prague. Steina married Woody Vasulka in prague in 1964, and shortly thereafter she joined the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. After moving to the United States in 1965 she worked in New York as a freelance musician. The Vasulkas began working with video in 1969. In 1971, with Andres Mannik, they founded The Kitchen, an electronic media theater in New York City. Since 1980 they live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1992 the Vasulkas co-curated Eigenwelt der Apparate Welt: Pioneer of the electronic art, an exhibition of early electronic tools for Ars Electronics , Linz, Austria, and published a interactive laserdisk catalogue.