Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Gary Hill


Gary Hill's work is especially significant due to his incorporation of text in video art. Hill began working with video, text and sound in 1973. He was influenced by the intellectual orientation of conceptual art which dominated art of the 1970s.


                                                                    Black White Text
This work by Gary Hill was done in 1980. I can see most people not being able to make it through the whole video, but I find it quite intriguing. The blending of simple words that describe the shapes on the screen makes out to be a wonderfully hypnotizing effect, especially when watching the visuals he has come up with on screen. As difficult as it seems to have made, im sure it wasn't. He just merely had an idea and ran with it!

                                                                   Electronic Linguistic
This work was done in 1978. I find this video even more exciting than Black White Text. I don't know if the music affected what was seen on screen or vice versa, but I find this to be completely facinating. To see what visual pops up to the electronic blips and bleeps is for lack of a better word, amazing!

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