Bill Viola - Ascension Tristan
Bill Viola -USA - a pioneer of video arts - ephemeral, transcendent, the use of the elements water and light...sound also adding to the overall impact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQfJXRj9yrk
Bill Viola - The tone of being
Interview on the importance of sound in his work - he places equal emphasis on the use of sound as on the video image. Sourced fromhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uenrts2YHdI
Bill Viola - Cameras are soul keepers
Interview about his near death experience in the lake when he was a child and how he realised that 'Theres more than just the surface of life - the real things are under the surface'. He discovered video in 1969 and the blue light from the camera enthralled him and reminded him of the water from that NDE. He also says how we exist in the 'space between the physical things. We see them but we exist in the space between'. Viola also talks about the loss of his mother and his experience of being in the room with her when she died and coming to terms with someone being there and then all of a sudden not being there. He adds that for him thats why video and camera technology to him is a keeper of souls as he sees them as having a life and holding a life as they hold the feelings and memories.
Sourced from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uenrts2YHdI
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