Bill is a contemporary video artist from america, whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. The piece of work i found most useful towards this projects is called tiny deaths.
Tiny Deaths was made in 1993. Barely visible figures are perceived in the darkened space until crescendos of light and sound bring moments of drama. The three projections envelop the viewer in the intense experience of the appearance and sudden disappearance of these presences. ‘The struggle we are witnessing today is not between conflicting moral beliefs’, Viola observed in 1992. ‘It is between our inner and our outer lives, and our bodies are the area where this belief is being played out.’ His works of the 1990s consistently show the body as the site for physical transformations – often through immersion in light or water – that embody these profound concerns with transformation and mortality.
You can see tiny deaths at 2 mins 22 of this video http://youtu.be/TuD4JVFXXq8?t=2m22s
In our video i planned to have barely visible figures walking towards the viewer, they would be like dark black shilloettes of people that i was originally intending to create in after effects. After looking at bills piece i quite like the way he filmed people but over exposed them making them slowly fade into white, representing their deaths. I am thinking now to do something similar to this but make invert the colours so they are black.
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