These canvases developed out of Hurtado’s exploration of how to paint light itself. She has described them as “moth lights,” explaining, “I always painted those squares of light hoping that an insect would come and try to get to it."

Audio Transcript

[Narrator]

Bill Viola was one of the first artists to use video art and sound technologies in his work, starting in the early ʼ70s. Here is Bill Viola talking about his work in 2010, recorded at ACMI in Melbourne

[Bill Viola]