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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.
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 ...
In the 1980s, the museum grew significantly, extending its sphere of influence with exhibitions that presented and toured surveys of installations for performance art; contemporary still-life painting; a group exhibition of work by Texas artists; and single-artist shows of artists like Ida Applebroog, Robert Morris, Pat Steir, Bill Viola and ...
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.
A stitched photo of all 50 states in the artwork. Alaska and Hawaii hang on the left wall next to the contiguous U.S. map.. Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii is a video art installation created in 1995 and composed of 575 feet (175 m) multicolored neon tubing, 336 television sets, 50 DVD players (originally VHS players), and 3,750 feet (1,140 m) of cable.
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]
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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 ...