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Hugh was influenced by American experimental sound artist, Alvin Lucier, whose work I am sitting in a room 1970 brought out the resonance of a room in his sound recordings by continually re-recording his initial text. I created this work using high definition video footage that was played from one camera connected to an LCD TV while being filmed in high definition video on another camera. Sound was recorded from speakers and an amplifier using a shotgun microphone and a flash-card recording device. Then the cameras were switched and the recorded footage was played through the television and filmed again. This was repeated up to 20 times until the video looked similar to a fingerprint or a zebra pattern.
NYSPP 2010
At the end of 2007 the National Portrait Gallery launched the inaugural National Youth Self Portrait Prize and artists aged between eighteen and twenty-five were invited to submit self portraits using a variety of media including drawing, painting, printmaking and traditional or digital photography.
An annual event, the National Youth Self Portrait Prize seeks to encourage young people to embrace self portraiture and its expressive possibilities.
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