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High (def) art

Bill Viola makes the kind of video that is the exact opposite of — and often the antidote to — the current conventions of video fashion. While the video language fills up with a lexicon of fast cuts and cheeky, aggressive graphics, Viola has always sought the mesmerizing tone and epic form. Viola's video installations are modern in the way that oil painting and architecture can be modern; they tweak the classic conventions while adhering to the basics of what moves people — scale, grandeur, mystery, and contradiction. They are “interactive” and “immersive” in ways that have nothing ...

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