Artist Research| Bill Viola

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       Bill Viola is a contemporary artist who uses video art, audio and new technology to explore things like birth, death, emotions and aspects of consciousness. He has been creating his works for 40 years. He has created things like videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, flat panel video pieces, and works for television broadcast.
Something that you notice, going through his works is that he tends to explore dualism, the division of something conceptually into two opposed or contrasted aspects. For example, a lot of his work has themes such as life and death, light and dark, stressed and calm, or loud and quiet.

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