2.  Bill Viola
 Birth, death and consciousness
 Trademarks
 Extreme Slow Motion / lo-fi
 “Total environment”
 Theory of “dualism”
 You can‟t understand what you‟re looking at unless
you know its opposite
 Structure
 Branching, matrix and schizo

4.  Condominium, n*
 Joint rule or sovereignty
 An apartment house in which the units are owned
individually, not by a company or cooperative; an
apartment in such a building
 Data Space**
 Common use: the (physical) space made accessible for or
occupied by data.
 “Back in my day, we used to call it „memory‟.” – Dave
Voorhis
 A data management metaphor to describe the linking of
disparate databases. – Alon Halevy
* Oxford English Dictionary
** c2.com

6.  Bill Viola thinks so
 “It has already begun with cable TV”
 “Today, development of self must precede
development of the technology or we will go
nowhere”
 “Applications of tools are only reflections of
the users”
 New Media Reader, p. 469

7.  “Every year I have new
possibilities, technically and creatively. so I
think the most important thing is to keep up in
yourself, to make sure that you're always
growing. you can have the best technology in
the world, but if you don't have an idea, if you
don't have a feeling of moving forward in
life, of trying to do something you don't
know... because we always want to do things
we know, we feel very comfortable, but you
have to always make sure there's a place for
something you don't know. you have to push
yourself…”
 Interview with designboom.com, 2007