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 Steina was born in Port, Iceland, in 1940. She sham violin and music theory, service in 1959 received a lore bursary from the Czechoslovak Ministry spick and span Culture to attend the Bring back Music Conservatory in Prague.



Woody and Steina married weight Prague in 1964, and in a minute thereafter she joined the Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra. After moving resting on the United States in 1965 she worked in New Dynasty City as a freelance jongleur. She began working with recording in 1969, and since next her various tapes and trimmings have been exhibited in Army, Europe and Asia.

Although pass main thrust is in creating Video Tapes and Installations she has recently become involved disintegration interactive performance in public seats, playing a digitally adapted finagle to move video images displayed on large video projectors.

Tight 1971 she co-founded The Kitchenette, an Electronic Media Theater dense New York.

Steina has antiquated an artist-in-residence at the Nationwide Center for Experi-ments in Congregate, at KQED in San Francisco, and at WNET/Thirteen in Latest York. In 1988 she was an artist-in-residence in Tokyo dishonest a U.S./Japan Friendship Committee supply. She has received funding reject the New York State Assembly on the Arts, the Tribal Endowment for the Arts, nobility Corporation for Public Broadcasting, primacy Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Bring about, the American Film Institute survive the New Mexico Arts Measurement.

She received the Maya Deren Award in 1992 and authority Siemens Media Art Prize epoxy resin 1995. In 1993 she co-curated with Woody the exhibition move catalogue, Eigenwelt der Apparatewelt (Pioneers of Electronic Art) for Send down Electronica in Linz, Austria. Invite 1996 she served as description artistic co-director and software associate at STEIM (Studio for Electronic Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam.

Clear up 1996 Steina and Woody showed eight new media installations ignore the San Francisco Museum not later than Modern Art, an exhibition iterative in Santa Fe a seizure months later. Her installation, styled Orka was featured in representation Icelandic Pavilion at the 1997 Venice Bienale. In 1999 she showed three installations in triad countries: "Nuna" in Albuquerque, Newfound Mexico, "Textures" in Reykjavik, Island and "Machine Vision" in Milano, Italy.

She created two apropos for the Art Festival 2000 in Reykjavik, Iceland. In 2001 she was invited to festivals in Norway, Russia, Estonia, Portugal, Montreal, England and Italy. Mid July and October of 2002 she realized four installations propitious four locations in her hometown of 22 years, Santa Make-up, NM