Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1981
Bill Viola, Hatsu-Yume (First Dream)
This work by Viola, a pioneer of video art, now stands in the collection of MoMA. Viola himself wrote of the work: “[It] fuses a personal observation of Japanese culture with a metaphysical contemplation of life, death and nature, achieved through a symbolic exploration of video’s relation to light and reflection.”
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
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People
Movements
Immersive Art, Installation Art, New Media Art, video art
Filed under
- Ideas
- death, Immersive Art, Installation Art, light, nature, New Media Art, video art
- People
- Bill Viola
- Works
- Hatsu-Yume (First Dream)
- Organisations
- EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix), MoMA
- Places
- Japan
Echoes across time
- 1953 · Jikken Kōbō’s Fifth Presentation Introduces the Autoslide Works
- 1957 · Voyage II, Frank Malina
- 1963 · Exposition of Music—Electronic Television Exhibition by Nam June Paik
Le Random editorials
- Barbara London on New Territory, Peter Bauman, February 11, 2025