Gary Hill
b. 1951
Gary Hill is one of the most important contemporary artists investigating the relationships between words and electronic images — an inquiry that has dominated the video art of the past decade. Originally trained as a sculptor, Hill began working in video in 1973 and has produced a major body of single-channel videotapes and video installations that includes some of the most significant works in the field of video art. His first tapes explored formal properties of the emerging medium, particularly through integral conjunctions of electronic visual and audio elements. Hill's works are characterized by their experimental rigor, conceptual precision and imaginative leaps of discovery. Writing on the course of the development of his work in the Program Notes for the Whitney Museum of American Art's New American Filmmakers Series #30, Hill states: "The earlier works, e.g Perhaps as much as any artist using image/sound media, Hill's work in video is about, and is, a new form of writing. It is informed by, and at times can even be seen to vindicate, post-structuralist perspectives about changing relationships between speech, writing and language; Hill "writes" masterfully on Maurice Bl…
Films