Bill Viola Quotes

Bill Viola Quotes

Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness. Wikipedia

✵ 25. January 1951

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“When I started in video I was one of two or three dozen video artists in 1970. And now, to paraphrase Andy Warhol, everyone's a video artist. Video, through your cellphone and camcorder, has become a form of speech, and speech is not James Joyce. It's great, and to be celebrated, but it has to find its own level.”

Bill Viola

Bill Viola, in: Leo Benedictus. " Tomorrow's world http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/jul/12/art1," in; The Guardian, Wednesday 12 July 2006.