Video artist Bill Viola took part in the Tanner Lecture Series on Human Values at the University of Utah. The series was entitled: "Presence and Absence: Vision and the Invisible in the Media Age" The panel spoke of art and it's effect on the audience. Major themes were the experience of viewing art, the act of seeing and the revelation through these acts.
The panel included: (from left to right) Moderator, Bob Goldberg, Director, Tanner Humanities Center,David Baddley, Westminster College Department of Art, Bill Viola, Sharon Swenson, Brigham Young University Department of Film Studies, Peter Sellars, UCLA Department of Theatre, and Ric Collier, Salt Lake Art Center