Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers (1983) Videotape, colour, sound, 15 min Viewers are made to ponder their own relationship to the television screen.
Bill Viola has been instrumental in the development of video art as a significant contemporary art form, expanding its historical, conceptual and technological scope.
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers presents forty-four revealing portraits of people sitting in their homes staring at a video camera as though it were a television set. Originally these one-minute segments were produced for broadcast television as random inserts between the scheduled programs, interrupting not only the regular flow of the program, but also the relationship between viewer and viewed.
