Video As Art

Garry Hill “Around & About” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnuHVAlpY2I
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES http://www.yhchang.com/



Garry Hill’s video art “Around and About” is an experiment in making a video piece that substitutes texts in our language within his own images. Breaking apart every word and reassembling them within his symbolic visual system, the video makes a rhythmical relay of images, which can be seen or read in a new way. Within his steady narration, the viewers hear what Hill thinks but one feels it is coming from Hill’s half conscious mind.


Young Hae Chang’s works use texts as images and rhythmical beats. Texts appear and swap to other text with a strong rhythmical beat. What the viewer reads becomes the image of what he or she saw and heard. Due to the strong beats coming towards the viewer, one is forced to read and get what Chang is saying.


To wrap up, both of the videos awaken the viewer by switching the way images and texts are used usually. They break words and texts, then recompose them into their own rhythm and language. Hill makes language out of images, and Chang makes languages into images. Hill is talking about his own aesthetic and world in his mind, and Chang is talking about her propaganda. They are both awakening my way of reading and seeing texts and images.