Jacques Louis Nyst was born in Liège, Belgium in 1942 and died in 1995. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid and in Liège. In addition to his work in video, he was also a filmmaker, writer and visual artist. He was Professor of Drawing and Video at the Academy of Fine Arts, Liège. Danièle Nyst was born in Liège in 1942 and died in 1998. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. She was Music Programmer at RTBF (Radio Television Belge-Francaise), Liège. For two decades, Belgian artists Danièle and Jacques Louis Nyst collaborated on a body of video works that were at once philosophical, theoretical, and whimsical.