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ID: 500073167
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500073167

 

Record Type: Person
Vasulka, Woody (Czech video artist and filmmaker, 1937-2019, active in the United States)

Note: Vasulka trained as an engineer before studying television and film production at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He initially worked with film, producing documentaries and industrial films until he began experimenting with video in the late 1960s. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1979. He co-founded The Kitchen in 1971 with Steina Vasulka.

Names:
Vasulka, Woody (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
Woody Vasulka (V,display)
Vasulka, Bohuslav (V)
Vasulka, Bohuslav Petr (U)

Nationalities:
Icelandic (preferred)
Scandinavian
American
Czech

Roles:
artist (preferred)
video artist
filmmaker
administrator
sculptor
teacher
cinematographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Brno (Jihomoravský Kraj, Czech Republic) (inhabited place)
Died:  Santa Fe (Santa Fe county, New Mexico, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   United States (North and Central America) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
collaborated with ....  Etra, Bill  
................................  (American video artist and electronic designer, 1947-2016) [500062305]
founder of ....  Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film, and Literature (New York, N.Y.)  
..................  (American repository, New York City, contemporary) [500304362]
partner in ....  Vasulka, Woody and Steina  
..................  (American video artists, contemporary) [500350782]
partner of ....  Vasulka, Steina  
..................  (Icelandic video artist and musician, born 1940) [500104306]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Vasulka, Woody (I)

Biographies:
(Czech video artist and filmmaker, 1937-2019, active in the United States) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Icelandic video artist, filmmaker in USA, b.1937) ..... [BHA]
(American artist, born Czech Republic 1937) ..... [MoMA]
(Czech cinematographer, 1937-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Vasulka, Bohuslav ........ [VP]
....................................  New York Times [online] (2000-) obit.
Vasulka, Bohuslav Petr ........ [RKD]
.............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 268602
Vasulka, Woody ........ [BHA Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP]
..............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 268602
..............................  The Kitchen [online] (2016-)
Woody Vasulka ........ [MoMA, VP]
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Cathcart, Vasulka (1978) pp.29-31
....................  Furlong, Notes toward a history of image-processed video: Steina and Woody Vasulka, Afterimage 11/5 (1983)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n78079969
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  International Directory of Exhibiting Artists (1982-) 1983
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n78079969
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 268602
....................  Video Art (1975) 44
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q18920276
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... The Kitchen [online] (2016-)
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