Bill Viola

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  Bill Viola (born 1951, Flushing, New York) is a video artist who since the 1970s has used broadcast-quality electronic technology to produce videotapes and video-and-sound installations exploring layers of human consciousness; he trained at Syracuse University (College of Visual and Performing Arts, 1973) and worked at Synapse and WNET/Thirteen's Artists' Television Laboratory. He has collaborated with Kira Perov and engineers such as John Godfrey, lived and worked in Japan (including Sony's Atsugi facility), settled in southern California in 1981, and created works including Four Songs (1976), Chott el-Djerid (1979), Ancient of Days (1979–81), Hatsu Yume (1981), Reasons for Knocking (1982), Room for St. John of the Cross (1983), I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986), and Passage (1987).