Bill Viola, a pioneer in the fields of new media, video and installation art, has died at his home in Long Beach, California, aged 73.
Across five decades, his installations found new uses for state-of-the-art audio and visual technology and interrogated the human experience – birth, death, consciousness – in works that drew on eastern and western spiritual and philosophical traditions. He said in a 2007 lecture: “I see that media technology is not at odds with our inner selves, but in fact a reflection of it.”
