Bill Viola - The Vieling
Bill Viola (1951) is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading artists. He has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art, and in so doing has helped to greatly expand its scope in terms of technology, content, and historical reach. For 40 years he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, flat panel video pieces, and works for television broadcast. Viola’s video installations—total environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound employ state-of-the-art technologies and are distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity. Viola uses video to explore the phenomena of sense perception as an avenue to self-knowledge. His works focus on universal human experiences—birth, death, the unfolding of consciousness and have roots in both Eastern and Western art as well as spiritual traditions, including Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and Christian mysticism. Using the inner language of subjective thoughts and collective memories, his videos communicate to a wide audience, allowing viewers to experience the work directly, and in their own personal way.
Installation Process & Technique 
I was inspire by how Bill Viola use the technique of light diffusion & parrallel in this piece of work. It is a very useful technique for me that I got from him, how he project am image of a man and woman from both side of the curtain starting from dark area then an image suddenly diffuse in bright area. Also, an image that have been projected on the screen has created some repetition on each layer that it past through.
Example of parrallel technique
M.C. Escher - Relativity
Escher 3 perspective points drawing. I was really amaze from what I saw in his drawing he use the theory of triangle. It was even more interesting when I notice that the drawing didn't meant to make the human figure upside down, but it was for showing the image in another side of perspective by rotating it clockwise we would see the image in another view.
This show how Escher was trying to show the light source & light effect on his drawing and judge where it should be.
Analysis is good although you could have been more through in your research, it remains at a very diagrammatic level yet.
ReplyDeleteThe choices of pieces to do research on were very intentional, which I appreciate.