![]() His work generates resonant philosophical and poetic insight as he explores the formal interplay of electronic visual and audio elements, often in conjunction with the physical body and with exploration of many aspects of “physicality.” With experimental rigor, conceptual precision, and imaginative leaps of discovery, Hill’s work in video is about, and itself comprises, a new form of writing. His early forays into the interconnections between language and electronic imaging and the discovery of a principle of “electronic linguistics” opened new territory in art, with implications for language art, consciousness, thinking, and extended possibilities in electronic composition. Gary Hill (Santa Monica, 1951), one of the most accomplished artists of his generation, is regarded as a major contributor to new media art from the 1970s into the present. Published in 2009 by Ediciones Polígrafa with a foreword by Lynne Cooke, 640 pages and nearly 1000 illustrations, this highly readable monograph is the most comprehensive and in-depth treatment of Gary Hill’s work to date, written in close connection with the artist, and offers an essential theoretical and scholarly frame for continuing study. ![]()
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