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Bill Viola, in full William Viola (born January 25, 1951, New York, New York, U.S.), American video, digital, and sound artist who was one of the pioneering figures of a generation of artists in the 1970s employing video art and sound technologies. Known for his room-sized environments (installations) that envelop viewers with sound and feature multiple screens of moving images, Viola created sublimely romantic imagery in the tradition of painting but with radically new digital media.From 1969 to 1973 Viola attended Syracuse University in New York (B.F.A., 1973), where he first began to work with video. In the early 1970s he was a video preparator at Syracuse?s Everson Museum of Art and in that capacity worked with such figures as Nam June Paik and Peter Campus. From 1974 to 1976 he was in Florence, working at an independent art video production facility, Art/Tapes/22. The Renaissance art that he was exposed to while living there became a major source of visual material for some of his later video productions. Another significant early influence on his work was the experimental musician David Tudor. Viola went to Japan in 1976, and thereafter he traveled widely. His study of non-Western art and cultures, particularly Eastern cultures, informs much of his aesthetic sensibility, and many of his works reflect on the role of art in prayer, meditation, and healing.
Source :https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bill-Viola