Gary Hill is a video artist who has exhibited his video installations worldwide. Electronic Linguistic, created in 1977, is one of his early pieces. In this work he shows the relationship between linguistic and electronic “phenomena.” He does this by using white pixel images, which appear and move on a black screen, which correlated to high-frequency sounds. As the video progresses, the pixels become larger and start to pulsate more intensely.
The way that Hill was able to correlate the images and the high frequency sounds really fascinated me. He made the frequencies change as the pixel images changed. As the video goes on the pixels turn into a circular shape accompanied by high tones. The work ends with a silent image, which lasts for several seconds. This early work was a precursor to his later more complex art pieces.
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