Bill Viola

Bill Viola ( born January 25, 1951 in New York City ) is an American video and installation artist. It can be viewed as a leading representative of video art.

Bill Viola lives with his wife Kira Perov and their two children in Long Beach, California.

Bill Viola graduated from Syracuse University with Jack Nelson and Franklin Morris. In the 1970s, he lived for 18 months in Florence, where he served as Technical Director of the production of Art/Tapes/22. When traveling, he studied the traditional drama and traditional music in the Solomon Islands, Java, Bali and Japan, and India. 1973 to 1980 he collaborated with the avant-garde composer David Tudor. 1976 to 1980 he worked for the WNET Channel 13 television studio in New York. In 1977 he was invited by Kira Perov at the La Trobe University in Melbourne. Kira Perov followed him to New York in 1978 and married him. 1979 Viola and Perov traveled in the Sahara. 1980/81 both lived in Japan, studying Zen at Daien Tanaka. In 1981, she returned to the U.S. and have since lived in Long Beach.

2004 Viola created in collaboration with Peter Sellars and Esa -Pekka Salonen a new production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde, by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in December 2004, at the Bastille Opera in Paris in 2005 and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York was listed in 2007.

Prizes and awards

  • Price of the MacArthur Foundation
  • Media Arts Award of UKM (1989 )
  • Media Art Award of the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (1993 )
  • Honorary doctorates from Syracuse University (1995), the Art Institute of Chicago ( 1997), the California Institute of the Art (2000), the Royal College of Art, London ( 2004)
  • Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts (2009)
  • Praemium Imperiale / Art ( 2011)

Quotes

  • " I firmly believe that the true power of the people lies in their collective energy. , When we tackle something together, we can move mountains in the truest sense of the word " (2004)
  • "The picture on the computer monitor is only the top layer of a vast network of connections and hidden symbol shapes that represents the actual reality of what we see before us. Both worlds, the inner world of the computer and the inner world in which we live are not visible "(2004).

Works (selection)

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