Nam-June Paik has been a central figure in avant-garde art throughout his career, and his innovative work in the fields of video art, performance art, installation art, satellite transmission, painting and music composition has had a profound influence on contemporary art.

He studied philosophy, history and music in Tokyo, moving to Germany to study music theory at the University in Munich and the Freiburg conservatory, where he discovered electronic music and met the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who became one of his major teachers.

Paik's first solo exhibition, in Wuppertal, Germany in 1963, introduced his "adapted" television sets and launched a new era in 20th century art. His work incorporating art and technology soon made him a major international artist. 

Steina and Woody Vasulka are major figures in video history, technical pioneers who have contributed enormously to the evolution of the medium and who continue to be major practitioners of video as art. The Vasulkas' technological investigations into analog and digital processes and their development of electronic imaging tools, which began in the early 1970s, place them among the primary architects of an expressive electronic vocabulary of image-making. 

Woody Vasulka is a renowned video and electronic media artist who has participated in major video festivals worldwide, given lectures, published articles, composed music, built instruments of electronic visualization and made numerous videotapes.For over three decades he has maintained his presence on the international media art scene, formulating and articulating esthetic strategies of the new media.

Before the end of the millenium, with a collective of well-known media artists of Santa Fe, Vasulka initiated and conducted a workshop titled Techne&Eros through the Santa Fe Art Institute, which led to the formation of the Art and Science Laboratory, a research group dedicated to the practices common to art and sciences.

Presently, he is organizing the Vasulka Archive, a large collection of papers, publications, tapes and instruments related to the history of electronic art.

Steina Vasulka was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1940 and emigrated to the United States in 1965. She has won numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Art Fellowship, an American Film Institute Maya Deren Award and the Siemens Media Art Prize, Germany. Her work has been screened, installed or performed at festivals and arts institutions in the U.S. and abroad, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Kitchen in New York, the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Media Festival S'Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands and the L'immagine Electronica Festival in Italy. She and husband Woody Vasulka founded The Kitchen in 1971.

Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden formed the artist collaboration MTAA in 1996. MTAA has presented artworks and performances at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York city; The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; The Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine, CA,The Getty Center in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. International exhibitions include the Seoul Net; Film Festival in Korea and Videozone2 - The 2nd International Video Art Biennialin Israel. The collaboration has earned grants and awards from theCreative Capital Foundation, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam and New Radio; Performing Arts, Inc..

Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden formed the artist collaboration MTAA in 1996. MTAA has presented artworks and performances at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York city; The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; The Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine, CA,The Getty Center in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

International exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and Videozone2 - The 2nd International Video Art Biennialin Israel. The collaboration has earned grants and awards from theCreative Capital Foundation, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam and New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc..