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Gary Hill Gary Hill (born in 1951, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.

One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide (Artfacts 2007).
 denies that he's a video artist: According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 him, he's just "surfing the medium." Fine, but how many surfers work the territory between image and text? And translation into Japanese doesn't present a problem. Watari-Um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo This article is about Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. For other Museums named Museum of Contemporary Art, see Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (
, will present five large video installations, and a live performance by Hill and Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson (Sept. 1, 2000--Jan. 14, 2001). Also navigating textual and visual cross-currents are Eran Schaerf's mixed-media installations, "docufictions" that employ fragments of narrative and explore nonverbal non·ver·bal  
adj.
1. Being other than verbal; not involving words: nonverbal communication.

2. Involving little use of language: a nonverbal intelligence test.
 languages. Schaerf's "As If Said" runs from November 19, 2000, to January 14, 2001, at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Meanwhile, at the Malmo Konsthall, artist and film director Peter Greenaway will be "flying over water." Exploring the myth of doomed aviator Icarus, Greenaway's multimedia installation will transform the entire Konsthall, examining topics as diverse as ambition and aerodynamics aerodynamics, study of gases in motion. As the principal application of aerodynamics is the design of aircraft, air is the gas with which the science is most concerned. , feathers and failure (Sept. 16, 20 00-Jan 14. 2001)
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Author:Withers, Rachel
Publication:Artforum International
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Date:Sep 1, 2000
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