Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)
This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice in...
See morePrimarily Speaking
This work is the single-channel version of a multi-channel installation of the same name. The picture plane is divided into a left and a right...
See moreVideograms
1980-81, 13:27 min, b&w, sound Videograms is an ongoing series of text/image constructs or syntaxes using the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, a device...
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“A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A sequence of...
See moreFiguring Grounds
Figuring Grounds – like Tale Enclosure, 1985 – was edited from three hours of recordings made at the Stained Glass Studio in Barrytown, New York...
See moreEqual Time
In this work, the field of Hill’s experimentation is the synchronization of visual and linguistic elements. For Equal Time, he sets up a minimalist...
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The artist’s mouth fills the whole image plane. Silently the words “red,” “blue,” “green” are slowly and repeatedly articulated. The color of the...
See moreObservaciones Sobre los Colores
Observaciones Sobre los Colores consists of a single video projection in which a boy reads a Spanish translation of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Color...
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In Bathing, as in his Mirror Road, Windows and Objects with Destinations, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the...
See moreEarth Pulse
A humanoid form strikes its body while making primal guttural sounds. At times the form is “stopped” and “started” using the pause of a...
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Our visual field is dominated by gossamer layers that become distorted in fluid motion, break off, begin anew and continually change color. As we...
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A fixed color camera is slightly defocused on the wire mesh of a window screen. Outside the window the leaves of trees are moving with the wind...
See moreTale Enclosure
Returning to the primal source of language, Hill explores the physical and subconscious origins of speech. In a continuous shot of a rhythmic...
See moreBlind Spot
Blind Spot constructs a space of living portraiture by “focusing time” on an exchange between the artist (the camera) and a man on the street in...
See moreProject Tesla
This rarely screened film was used to raise funds for the making of Energy and How to Get It. High-energy physicist Robert Golka was granted a...
See moreSums & Differences
The basis of this “sound/image construct,” recorded in real time, are three black-and-white still images: a keyboard, a flute, and an African drum....
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Dave Jones prototype modules (keyers, color field generators, output amplifier), black-and-white camera, microphone and Serge audio modules...
See moreGoats & Sheep
Goats and Sheep uses the source material of the installation Withershins, 1995, consisting of two simultaneous views of a person signing: the hands...
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“I was thinking of the camera as a kind of archeological tool that I could use to dig into or slice through the landscape —one among many studies...
See moreThe Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment
The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment is a declaration claiming the psychoactive event of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as a "found performance"...
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