His experimental work used electronic, sound and image technology in new media to explore fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness.
FILE — The artist Bill Viola in Los Angeles on Nov. 7, 1997. Viola, an artist who brought a timeless-seeming sense of beauty and age-old spirituality to the newfangled genre of video art, becoming one of the medium’s most influential and popular artists, died on Friday, July 12, 2024, at his home in Long Beach, Calif. He was 73. Pioneering video artist Bill Viola has died at his home in Long Beach at the age of 73 due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, his studio announced on Sunday.
Viola was born in Queens, New York and graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 1973. For the next several years he studied with composer David Tudor in the new music group “Rainforest,” and also served as technical director at Art/tapes/22, a pioneering video studio in Florence, Italy.
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