One of the pioneers of audio-visual art, Bohuslav "Woody"
Vašulka, died on Friday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Czech
News Agency reports. A student of Prague's renowned film school FAMU,
Mr. Vašulka moved to the United States during the 1960s, later co-founding
New York's The Kitchen theatre which explored the potential of
audio-visual media and human interaction with technologies.
Professor Tomáš Ruller, who heads the Vašulka Kitchen Brno new media
research and education facility, said that the death of Mr Vašulka is a
major loss and that Mr Vašulka was one of the few international arts
personalities to come from the Czech Republic.