- Gary Hill
Gary Hill (born in 1951,
Santa Monica, California , U.S.) is an American artist who lives and works inSeattle, Washington .One of the pioneers of
video art , Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide (Artfacts 2007). He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by
Robert C. Morgan was published byJohns Hopkins University Press in 1999.Gary Hill's work is especially significant due to his incorporation of text into video art, evident in works such as "Incidence of Catastrophe" 1977-78. 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. His reading of the writings of
Maurice Blanchot , in particular, provided him with ideas relating to the way in which language impinges on phenomenological experience, and a notion of 'the other' stemming from the philosophy ofEmmanuel Lévinas . Such reading informs Hill's visual-poetic explorations of the interrelationships between language, image, identity, and the body. For example in "Cabin Fever" he uses the binary opposition of light and darkness to convey the notion of an interaction between a self and an ‘other’. [Donald Young Gallery: [http://www.donaldyoung.com/hill/hill_pr.html New Installation Works at the Donald Young Gallery in Chicago] , January 2007] Hill's work thoroughly exploits the capacity of video to offer complex nonlinear narratives that encourage active engagement on the part of the viewer. InRoland Barthes ' terms, Hill’s video narratives can be understood as ‘writerly’ texts.External links
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/8257/gary-hill.html Gary Hill on artnet]
* [http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?HILLG Gary Hill] in the [http://www.vdb.org/ Video Data Bank]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2220/is_1_45/ai_105967793 An intelligent review of Hill's "Between Cinema and a Hard Place"] by S. Brent Plate, originally published in "Criticism", Winter 2003.
* [http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=204 'Image, Body, Text' exhibition at the SF MOMA]Notes
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