Response--Chapter 2

After reading the Rush’s article, I ‘m pretty interested in the form of art that some artists use language in their videotapes and found out that the artist Gary Hill, who was introduced in the book, had so many interesting artwork and presentation.
 Gary Hill is an important contemporary artist investigating relationships between languages and electronic images and he made videotapes of these kinds of art. And he has worked since the 80s with the idea of video installation as a whole that involves the viewer both mentally and physically. A famous exhibition from Gary Hill is the Writing Corpora, which is amazing. A studio even developed two softwares for this exhibition: one is fluid dynamic “touch floor” and another one is for tracking body skeleton’s movement to trace the artist’s body movement.

 This piece is about translation from spoken language to physical language and also from English to Spanish, and represents the human’s body part in a more literal way. I can’t find out exactly how the system work simply from the video and introduction online, but from the video I can see the relation between body movement and the big “soup” of letters on the floor.

 Below is the video of Gary Hill’s Writing Corpora exhibited in Spain.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkGBN6k4ylo