Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir

Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir (b. 1976) graduated from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2000 with a BFA with honors in Fine Arts; she received her MA in New Genres from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004.

Ásdís vj´s together combination of her videos and reads poetry over them. Her works vary from large video installations and performances, to spoken word poetry and photography. Through her video and Internet work such as the Skype Performances (2007), Gunnarsdóttir flirts with the notion that our persistent enchantment with technology finds its roots in religious or transcendental imagination she has on and off used the online medium for performance and video making, where improvising plays a big part of the art.