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Bill Viola (born 1951) is a contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media.〔Ross,David A. Forward. "A Feeling For the Things Themselves". ''Bill Viola'' Paris, Flammarion with Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.〕 His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness.〔http://www.billviola.com/biograph.htm〕 == Background == Viola grew up in Queens, New York, and Westbury, New York. He attended P.S. 20, in Flushing, where he was captain of the TV Squad. On vacation in the mountains with his family, he nearly drowned in a lake, an experience he describes as “… the most beautiful world I’ve ever seen in my life” and “without fear,” and “peaceful”〔Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart. Dir. Mark Kidal. DVD. Film for the Humanities & Sciences, 2005.〕 In 1973, Viola graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. He studied in the Experimental Studios of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, including the Synapse experimental program, which evolved into CitrusTV. His first job on graduation was as a video technician at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. From 1973 to 1980, he studied and performed with composer David Tudor in the new music group "Rainforest" (later called "(Composers Inside Electronics )"). From 1974 to 1976, Viola worked as technical director at , a pioneering video studio led by Maria Gloria Conti Bicocchi, in Florence, Italy where he encountered video artists Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, and Vito Acconci. From 1976 to 1983, he was artist-in-residence at WNET Thirteen Television Laboratory in New York. In 1976 and 1977, he traveled to the Solomon Islands, Java, and Indonesia to record traditional performing arts. Viola was invited to show work at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) in 1977, by cultural arts director Kira Perov. Viola and Perov later married, beginning an important lifelong collaboration in working and traveling together. In 1980, they lived in Japan for a year and a half on a Japan/U.S. cultural exchange fellowship where they studied Buddhism with Zen Master Daien Tanaka. During this time, Viola was also an artist-in-residence at Sony Corporation's Atsugi Laboratories. In 1983, he became an instructor in Advanced Video, California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, California. He represented the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, in 1995, for which he produced a series of works called ''Buried Secrets'', including one of his best known works ''The Greeting'', a contemporary interpretation of Pontormo's ''The Visitation''. The Whitney Museum of American Art organized and toured internationally, in 1997, a major 25-year retrospective of Viola's work. Viola was the 1998, Getty, Scholar-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (). Later, in 2000, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2002, he completed ''Going Forth By Day'', a digital “fresco” cycle in High-Definition video, commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 2003,''The Passions'' was exhibited in Los Angeles, London, Madrid, and Canberra. This was a major collection of Viola's emotionally charged, slow-motion works inspired by traditions within Renaissance devotional painting. In 2004, Viola began work on a new production of Richard Wagner's opera ''Tristan und Isolde'', a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and executive producer Kira Perov. The opera was premiered at the Opéra National de Paris in 2005 and Viola's video work was subsequently shown as ''LOVE/DEATH The Tristan Project'' at the Haunch of Venison Gallery and St Olave's School, London, in 2006. During 2007, the (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo ) in Sevilla, organized an exhibition at the Palace of Charles V in la Alhambra- Granada- in which Viola's work dialogues with the Fine Arts Collection of the museum. In 2009, Viola was awarded the 2009 Catalonia International Prize, known as the XXI Premi Internacional Catalunya 2009 by the Catalonian government of Spain. The award honors an individual "whose creative work has made a significant contribution to the development of cultural, scientific or human values anywhere in the world". The first biography of Viola, entitled "Viola on Vídeo", was written by Federico Utrera (King Juan Carlos University) and published in Spain in 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Viola」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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