Aurora will present the 7th annual Aurora Award to Steina and Woody Vasulka. The award is given each year to an artist or artists who have exhibited extraordinary originality in the fields of media and multimedia art. Past Aurora honorees are Isaac Julien, Ant Farm, Laurie Anderson, William Wegman, Tony Oursler and Miranda July. Award will be presented by author and media theorist Gene Youngblood.

Steina and Woody Vasulka are canonized as pioneers of electronic art, having begun experimenting with sound and image in 1969, shortly thereafter founding the legendary interdisciplinary art center, The Kitchen (1971), and later working among other avant-garde innovators (Hollis Frampton, Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, James Blue, and Peter Weibel) at the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo. For nearly four decades, the Vasulkas have continued to work, exhibit and teach about electronic art, as well as maintain The Vasulka Archive, an extensive repository of documents from the pioneering days of electronic, computer and video art (recently acquired by the Daniel Langlois Foundation). The Vasulkas have paved the way for today's artists to work in video installation, electronic music, live cinema performance, circuit bending, and other genres which merge art, engineering, and technology.

Tables start at $1000; tickets start at $150. Please contact Kia Neill at Aurora Picture Show (713-868-2101) for more information.