Bill Viola interviewed by Steve Beck for Mondo 2000 Magazine, 1999
Created Date
1999
Description
Mondo 2000 Magazine: Bill Viola Interview by Stephen Beck with video artist Bill Viola. The interview was a four-part series on video artists and technology artists.
Stephen Beck was a leading figure of the 1960s-1970s California electronic art scene and collaborated with other notable filmmakers and musicians in California and beyond, including Jordan Belson, Warner Jepson, Harry Smith, and many others. Trained in composition, Beck’s musical works include audio synthesizers and music for his own and others’ films. His achievements as a pioneering video artist in the early 1970s included designing and building custom video synthesizers, and he was a core member of the National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET), a video art lab based out of KQED in San Francisco between 1967-1975. In the late 1970s and 1980s he started a company that designed and licensed electronic toys and video games
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