Gary Hill

Gary Hill (born in 1951, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C. Morgan was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999. One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide (Artfacts 2007). Gary Hill's work is especially significant due to his incorporation of text in 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...