Manipulated Surface and Time: Digital Video and the "Film-Video Hybrid" in Bill Viola's 21st Century Work
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2013, v. 30, pp. 140-158
Since the end of the 20th century and the dominance of digitization, video is not a stable substance defined by its physical, technical and functional boundaries: a video camera is no longer necessary to produce "video art." The recent work of Bill Viola has created moving image that comes closer to cinema than it perhaps it with video, and this work may testify to the reigning impact of the digital convergence.
The author uses Viola's recent work as a case study to argue that video's material and technical specificities do not disappear in this convergent form of the moving image.
ITEM 2013.079 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The Passions – Bill Viola
The Greeting – Bill Viola
Going Forth by Day – Bill Viola
Love/Death: The Tristan Project – Bill Viola
Oceans Without a Shore – Bill Viola
Transfiguration – Bill Viola