Mirror Walls at the Commonwealth Exhibition. Tate Modern 2003

Making Bill Viola [1|2]

The first workshop was inspired by the video work of Bill Viola, who’s work is influenced by his preoccupations with Zen philosophy, Renaissance painting, spiritual iconography, art history and the exploration of digital technology. A list of subjects ripe for study.
In this workshop students are encouraged to make sense of the Bill Viola work through small group discussions and the production of five minute documentary videos that summarise their experience and their understandings. The overall aim of the digital workshop is to make a single-screen, ‘Bill Viola’, for showing on the web and on the big screens in the Tate Digital Cafe.

The Tate Digital Cinema was developed in partnership with Apple Computers, Nikon, Canon, Sony and Sharp, to produce, distribute and show digital film and video. The production studio uses Apple iMacs and Apple Final Cut Pro for editing and compositing films, with Nikon and Canon providing the digital cameras, and Sony and Sharp the screens in the Digital Cafe. The studio has been purposefully set up to relate to technology that can be bought in any high street, and has become a showcase for the latest technology and a venue for the launch of new products from these and other manufactures.
Over the last year Tate Digital Cinema have linked up with the LUX and are showing avant-garde and experimental video and film in the Digital Cafe and using the works as a basis for digital workshops in theory and practice.
“That coffee and cake was definitely worth a tenner” says Pat. Sam nods, and they agree to come back next weekend.
Tony Hall

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