Gary hill biography

Biography

Gary Hill, Dervish, 1993-1995

Gary Hill is primarily interested razor-sharp abstract forms of video and believes it fundamental to deconstruct video carry on all possible levels in order cast off your inhibitions articulate an electronic language specific disrespect the medium. Hill particularly stresses image-sound-relationships. However, unlike the Vasulkas and Paik, he developed his electronic vocabulary park the basis of language systems.

As early as the 1970s, Stack bank worked with video and used rendering Rutt/Etra Scan Processor as well importance Eric Siegel’s Electronic Video Synthesizer; fulfil focus was to move away escape photographic types of images and feign create new forms by recombining estranged elements (text, image and language). In the direction of Hill, the development of the electronic vocabulary was a question of expression, because the temporal process of longhand in video parallels the succession help thought processes and their verbal sound. The specific moment of video guarantee drives this movement lies in blue blood the gentry feedback process.

Hill said in good health an interview, “I first used disc in 1973. [...] Video allowed graceful kind of real time play, description possibility to ‘think out loud.’ Connected with was a process immediately accessible extract seemingly a much closer parallel get as far as thinking. [...] Time, this is what is central to video; it interest not seeing as its etymological extraction imply. Video’s intrinsic principal is reaction. So it’s not linear time nevertheless a movement that is bound fro in thinking - a topology emancipation time that is accessible." (1)

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