Resonant Memory: Works by Steina and Woody Vasulka

Robyn Farrell is Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Kitchen in New York where she oversees the exhibition, performance, and publication program. Her research interests include conceptual art and the moving image, emerging disciplines of time-based art, artist networks, and the history of exhibition and distribution of film and video. Prior to The Kitchen, Farrell was Associate Curator in the department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Farrell has contributed to numerous publications and artist monographs, has spoken widely on contemporary and time-based media, and is an internationally recognized scholar on the work of German filmmaker and video art pioneer Gerry Schum, including his landmark art on television broadcasts such as Land Art (1969). Farrell holds an MA in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has served as a visiting lecturer and moderator for the Gene Siskel Film Center.

Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir is an artist, curator, and the founder and director of BERG Contemporary, an international art gallery based in Reykjavík. She also serves as director of the Silfurberg Art Fund and is a member of the Arts & Culture Global Solidarity Network at the World Economic Forum. In addition, she sits on the Advisory Board at Bifröst University, Iceland. She studied at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík, the Danish National School of Decorative Arts in Copenhagen, and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Jónsdóttir has also taught at the Iceland University of the Arts and the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts. Her curatorial projects include Synthesis: Seven International Artists (Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, 2014); Wie Raum Wird (Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, 2015); How Space Turns (Western Gallery, Western Washington University, 2015); Vertical/Horizontal: Textile Art by Júlíana Sveinsdóttir and Anni Albers (Reykjavík Art Museum – Kjarvalsstaðir, 2015); and Envoi: Drawing Spatially – Monika Grzmala (Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, 2016). Her works have been exhibited widely, including solo shows at the ASI Art Museum and the Reykjavík Art Museum, and are part of collections such as the Danish Art Foundation and the Reykjavík Art Museum.

Kristín Scheving is a visual artist and curator, currently serving as Director of LÁ Art Museum in Hveragerði, Iceland, and as manager of the Vasulka Foundation. She is the founder of the Vasulka Chamber at the National Gallery of Iceland, established in 2014 in collaboration with Steina and Woody Vasulka and museum director Dr. Halldór Björn Runólfsson. Scheving has curated numerous exhibitions, screenings, and interdisciplinary projects internationally, and is also the founder of 700IS Reindeerland, an experimental art festival in Iceland dedicated to video, sound, and media art. She holds an M.A. in Media Arts and a B.A. in Visual Arts from Manchester Metropolitan University, England, and completed three years of fine art studies at École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, France.

Peter Sit is an artist and curator, currently working as art director at e-flux journal. From 2012 to 2022 he was co-founder and member of the collective and platform APART, through which he realized numerous exhibitions, publications, and discursive projects. Together with APART he exhibited at institutions such as Kunsthalle Bratislava, Karlín Studios (Prague), Easttopics (Budapest), Biennial of Graphic Design (Brno), CCA Chronicle (Bytom), MoMA (New York), Glassbox (Paris), Alserkal Arts Foundation (Dubai), City Gallery Prague, and Kunsthalle TRAFO (Szczecin). His editorial and curatorial practice spans exhibitions, publications, and public programs, including Harun Farocki: Shaping of Our Present (A Promise of Kneropy), 2022; Life, Death, Love and Justice (with Didem Yazici, Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, Istanbul, 2022); and The 9th Futurological Congress: Future of Language (with Julieta Aranda, Slovak Radio Building, Bratislava, 2019). Sit has participated in international residencies including Salzburg Summer Academy and Art in General, New York, and has organized lectures and discussions on conceptual art, art education, and mental health. He is currently developing the research and writing project Art in Times of Anxieties and Depressions, and is curator of the Czech and Slovak Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale.