Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
Bill ViolaI came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.
Bill ViolaThe electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.
Bill Viola