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From 1973 to 1980, Viola studied and performed with composer David Tudor in the new music group "Rainforest" (later named "Composers Inside Electronics" [9]).From 1974 to 1976, Viola worked as technical director at Art/tapes/22 [], a pioneering video studio led by Maria Gloria Conti Bicocchi, in Florence, Italy where he encountered video artists Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, and Vito Acconci.
Reverse Television is a series of 44 video portraits made by American video artist Bill Viola in 1983, originally produced for broadcast television and later documented as a 15-minute video. These portraits depict people throughout Boston sitting in their living rooms, silently staring at the video camera as though it were a TV set. [1]
Artist Bill Viola, whose pioneering work with video since the 1970s opened the door to what would become a major artform internationally, has died. He was 73.
This is a list of notable artists who create video art.Artists in this list have gained recognition or proven their importance because their work has been shown in film and video festivals and contemporary art exhibitions of worldwide importance, such as the documenta or the Venice Biennale, the Sao Paulo Art Biennial or exhibited in major modern or contemporary art museums and institutes.
Bill Viola, a video artist who combined with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde” originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and New York, has died ...
In 2017, Fox made a documentary Bill Viola: The Road to St. Paul's. This film showcases the life and work of Bill Viola, a video artist, and his wife and collaborator Kira Perov, [32] as they navigate a twelve-year journey to create two permanent video installations, Mary and Martyrs, in London's St Paul's Cathedral. [33] [34]
Viola moved to New York and spent from 1976-80 at WNET Thirteen's Television Laboratory as artist-in-residence and in 1976 created “He Weeps for You,” a live camera magnifying an image within a water drop, which traveled to New York's Museum of Modern Art. By the mid-1980s, Viola’s work was seen at the Whitney and the Museum of the Moving ...
Some of Rix's work is oil on canvas, others comprise mixed media on paper. Her influences include Bill Viola, Andrei Tarkovsky, Antoni Tàpies. Some of her themes have included staircases, landings, shifting rooms and spaces. Figures are sometimes present, although often absent, leaving only resonances.