David Hall (video artist)

David Hall
Born	1937 Leicester, England
Nationality	British
Training	Leicester College of Art Royal College of Art, London
Movement	Sculpture, Conceptual art, Experimental film, Video art
Works	Include: TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces) (1971) This is a Video Monitor (1973) Progressive Recession (1974) 101 TV Sets (1972-1975) A Situation Envisaged: The Rite II (Cultural Eclipse) (1988) Stooky Bill TV (1990)

David Hall (born 1937) is a British video artist, whose pioneering work did much to establish video as an art form.^[1]

Life and work

David Hall attended Leicester College of Art and the Royal College of Art.^[1] During the 1960s he worked as a sculptor and showed his work internationally.^[1] He won first prize at the Biennale de Paris in 1965 and took part in other key shows including Primary Structures, at the Jewish Museum in New York in 1966 which marked the beginning of Minimalist art. Soon he began working with film and at the beginning of the 1970s turned to video as an art medium.^[1]

His work in this field and his writings in Studio International contributed significantly to the establishment of this as a genre in the visual arts.^[1] He was curator of early important shows, and influenced several generations of emerging artists as a teacher.^[1]

In 1971 he made ten "Interruptions" broadcast unannounced and uncredited on Scottish Television. Seven of these works were later distributed on video as TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces), and are widely acknowledged as the first artist interventions on British television, and as an equally formative moment in British video art. His first multi-channel video installation was shown in London in 1972.

In 1976 he made This is a Television Receiver, transmitted by BBC television. Here David Hall revisited the theme of his classic This is a Video Monitor made in 1973. The new context of its transmission by BBC Television was important. Other works by artists had been broadcast earlier, but Hall uniquely set out to turn the domestic television set into a form of video sculpture through the intervention of his transmitted images". ^[1]

Also In 1976 he established London Video Arts in collaboration with Stuart Marshall, Stephen Partridge, Tamara Krikorian and others.^[1] This acted as a promotional agency, an artist-led workshop and a distribution service.^[1]

He has exhibited single screen and installation work internationally over the last forty years at many venues including Documenta Kassel, Tate Gallery London, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, National Museum Reina Sofia Madrid, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, and Museum of Modern Art Vienna.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} "A Century of Artists' Film in Great Britain ", Tate. Retrieved 21 January 2009.

^ Hartney, Mick. "Video art", MoMA [1] accessed January 31, 2011

^ Kunst und Video, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, 1983

^ Video-Skulptur, Retrospectiv und Aktuell 1963-1989, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, 1989

^ Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art [2] edited by Julia Knight, University of Luton/Arts Council England, 1996

^ A History of Experimental Film and Video [3], A L Rees, British Film Institute, 1999 & 2011

^ Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain, 1965-75 [4] catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2000

^ A Situation Revisited - David Hall: A Situation Envisaged: The Rite II (Cultural Eclipse) [5], Chrissie Iles, Factor 1989, FACT, Liverpool, 2001

^ Video: un art contemporain [6], Françoise Parfait, Editions du Regard, Paris 2001

^ Video Art: A Guided Tour [7], Catherine Elwes, IB Taurus, 2005

^ Greyscale Video and the Shift to Colour [8]], Sean Cubitt, Art Journal magazine, Vol.65, No.3, Fall 2006

^ A History of Video Art [9], Chris Meigh-Andrews, Berg, 2006

^ First Generation: Art and the Moving Image 1963-1986 [10], exhibition catalogue, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2006

^ 100 Video Artists [11], edited by Rosa Olivares, EXIT Publications in collaboration with the Fundación ICO, 2010

External links

• Official web site
• REWIND Artists' video in the 70s and 80s: Interview with David Hall
• REWIND interview transcribed (PDF)
• Video Art: the early years

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Date of birth	1937
Place of birth	Leicester, England
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