NEW YORK, NY.- Bill Viola Studio and the USC Game Innovation Lab have launched The Night Journey on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system. This award-winning art game is available today via the PlayStation®Store for $19.99.

Winner of the “Most Sublime Experience” at the 2007 IndieCade Festival, The Night Journey is one of the earliest experimental art games made. It uses both game and video technologies to tell the universal story of an individual’s journey towards enlightenment.

For the past decade, The Night Journey has been exhibited around the world as a work in progress, in venues including: The Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, New York; Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea; ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Museum of Design, Atlanta, Georgia. This launch marks its first time home players have been able to experience the game.

Visual inspiration for the game is derived from the works of Bill Viola, which provide reference for the vast, open world of the game, while source material for in-game “reflections” is drawn from the extensive archive of Viola’s video footage. Artist Viola worked in collaboration with a team at the USC Game Innovation Lab including award-winning game designers Tracy Fullerton and Todd Furmanski.

The Night Journey will also be made available soon on Windows PC and Mac. The title is rated T (Teen) by the ESRB. The Night Journey was developed with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Intel, Zero1 Art & Technology Network, and the Annenberg Center at the University of Southern California.

Bill Viola (b. 1951, United States) is internationally recognized as one of the leading artists of our time, an acknowledged pioneer in the medium of video art. For over 40 years he has been making work that explores a series of humanistic and spiritual issues. His works include room-size video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances and flat panel video pieces, as well as works for television broadcast, concerts, opera, and sacred spaces. In 2017 alone he was the subject of several major museum retrospectives including Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou.