March 10, 1998
CONTACT: Shirley Hulett, 594-5204
SDSU Presents ‘Conversation with Bill Viola,’
Video Art Pioneer and Getty Scholar
San Diego State University’s School of Art, Design and Art History presents"Conversation with Bill Viola," at 7 p.m., Friday, March 20, in Nasatir Hall, room 100.
Viola, one of the pioneers of video art, is a resident scholar at The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities. His work is currently featured in a major solo survey exhibition organized by theWhitney Museum of Art and traveling throughout the United States and to Germany.
The event is part of the University’s Visiting Artists, Lecturers and Exhibitions series. It is free and open to the public. Parking isavailable without permits in Lots 160, 105, 400 or parking structure 4. Viola was born in 1951 in New York City. In 1973 he received a bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Violabegan experimenting with the medium of video art in 1970. As technology has become more sophisticated, so have his videotapes and video/sound installations.
He has traveled to Java, Bali, the Solomon Islands, the Himalayas, and theSahara Desert to produce his art, and he has been artist-in-residence at the San Diego Zoo, WNET Thirteen Television Laboratory in New York, and Sony Corporation's Atsugi Laboratories in Japan.
Viola, who moved to California in 1981, has received numerous awards and honors, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award.
For information, call (619) 594-4941 or 594-5171 (recorded message).
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Shirley J. Hulett
University Communications
Phone: (619) 594-2585 FAX: (619) 594-5956
http://tns.sdsu.edu/~unicom/