"Artist Bill Viola has died. The trailblazing creator of monumental video works died Friday (July 12) at his home in Long Beach, Calif., of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. He was 73."
Chloe Veltman, NPR Obituaries
14 NOV 2024
Los Angeles, CA
As a way of paying my last respects, I added a quote by #billviola to this water feature at the @gettymuseum
Los Angeles, CA
As a way of paying my last respects, I added a quote by #billviola to this water feature at the @gettymuseum
MAY 2007
Culver City, CA
A month after we finished the Exhibits-Only version of The Night Journey, and a month before its inaugural exhibition at the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, we gathered at the home of Scott Fisher, the chair of the USC Cinema's, Interactive Media Division. Bill asked for the meeting. He explained that on the Summer solstice he made a drawing for each of us.
A month after we finished the Exhibits-Only version of The Night Journey, and a month before its inaugural exhibition at the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, we gathered at the home of Scott Fisher, the chair of the USC Cinema's, Interactive Media Division. Bill asked for the meeting. He explained that on the Summer solstice he made a drawing for each of us.
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| I added Tracy Fullerton and Scott Fisher to the group picture but carving (with photoshop) their names into the chairs. |
This is his gift to me. Titled The Bird of Vision.
The bird is drawn over the landscape that I built for the videogame. Bill explained that the bird is half over the darkness and half over the light, but that if u look closely its beak it pointing towards the light. In that moment I realized that I was not very good at hiding my dark side, and that his drawing reflected an optimism he saw in and/or had about me. I reflect on that moment whenever I find myself in darkness.
17 SEPT 2013
The bird is drawn over the landscape that I built for the videogame. Bill explained that the bird is half over the darkness and half over the light, but that if u look closely its beak it pointing towards the light. In that moment I realized that I was not very good at hiding my dark side, and that his drawing reflected an optimism he saw in and/or had about me. I reflect on that moment whenever I find myself in darkness.
1995
New York City, NY
Interview with Charlie Rose: "Who are those artists that have influenced you?"
11 AUG 2010
Snowmass Village, CO
I demo The Night Journey video-game as a part of Bill's lecture at Anderson Ranch Arts Center
JULY 2013
JULY 2013
Aspen, CO
Pam Joseph gives the Anderson Ranch National Artist Award to Bill Viola and Kira Perov
31 JULY 2013
Snowmass Village, CO
During a lecture at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Bill gives advice to young people.
17 SEPT 2013
Los Angeles, CA
After a design meeting at the Game Innovation lab, lab director Tracy Fullerton shows Bill, Kira and their son Blake an example of a red-hearing in Walden, a game.
