David Hall  (b. 1937)

Nationality:

British

Hall has taken part in key shows including Primary Structures, New York in 1966 which marked the beginning of Minimalist art. Soon he was using photography, film and video to make single screen and installation work and exhibiting it internationally. His first television interventions appeared on Scottish TV in 1971. He participated in forming the Artists' Placement Group with John Latham and others in 1966; and was co-organiser of The Video Show (first major international show of of artists' video in the UK) at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1975; and was co-curator of the first video installations exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London in 1976. In the same year he initiated and was a founder of the artists' organisation London Video Arts (now part of the Lux, London). Appointed Honorary Professor at Dundee University in 2003, he has taught at the Royal College of Art, St Martin's School of Art, Chelsea College of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, Nova Scotia College of Art and many others. He introduced the term 'time-based media' through his writings, and created the first time-based art degree option with emphasis on video at Maidstone College of Art, Kent in 1972. He has made work for broadcast by BBC TV, Channel 4 TV, Scottish TV, Canal+ TV and MTV.

Education

Architecture, Leicester College of Art 1954-56
Fine Art, Leicester College of Art 1956-60
Sculpture, Royal College of Art 1960-64
Taught at the the Royal College of Art, St Martin's School of Art, Chelsea College of Art, San Fransisco Art Institute, Nova Scotia College of Art (amongst others).
Appointed Honorary Professor at Dundee University in 2003

Awards

1965: Awarded first prize for sculpture at the Biennale de Paris

Biographical Notes

Selected Bibliography:
Primary Structures, exhibition catalogue, Jewish Museum, New York, 1966.
British Sculpture: The Developing Scene, Gene Baro, Studio International, London, October 1966.
Halls of Perception, Eddie Wolfram, Art and Artists, London, January 1968.
David Hall interviewed, Evan Thomas, Art and Artists, London, March 1971.
David Hall - The Sculptor as Filmmaker, Paul Overy, The Times, May 14 1974.
Movements in Art Since 1945, Edward Lucie-Smith, Thames and Hudson, 1975.
The Video Show catalogue, Serpentine Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1975.
The Video Show, David Hall, Art and Artists, London, May 1975.
Video Report, David Hall, regular column in Studio International, mid-1970s.
British Video Art: Towards an Autonomous Practice, David Hall, Studio International, May/June 1976.
Here's Looking at Yourself, Richard Cork, Evening Standard, June 3 1976.
Film en Video Manifestatie exhibition cat. intro., David Hall, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 1977.
Perspectives of British Avant-Garde Film, Hayward Gallery exhibition cat., Arts Council, 1977.
Artists Video exhibition cat. intro., David Hall, Biddick Farm Arts Centre, Washington, Tyne and Wear, 1977.
Documenta 6 exhibition cat., Paul Dierichs KG and Co, Kassel, Germany, 1977.
Video Art 78 cat. intro., David Hall, Arts Council/Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, 1978.
London Video Arts cat., London Video Arts, London, 1978.
Using Video and Video Art, David Hall, Aspects magazine, Winter 1978.
Videotapes by British Artists exhibition cat., The Kitchen, New York, 1979.
Video in Europe, David Hall, International Video Symposium paper, pub Queens University, Ontario, 1979.
Video 79: The First Decade, Kane, Rome, 1979.
Video Art: A History, documentation exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1983.
Kunst und Video, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, 1983.
..The Early Chronology of Video Art (1959-1976).., Mick Hartney, and Video Installations in Britain, Tamara Krikorian, London Video Arts cat., 1984.
Artists' Television, Tamara Krikorian, Art Monthly, Feb 1984.
Video Art Education: 20 Years On, David Hall, Luminous Image cat., Stediljk Museum, Amsterdam, 1984.
Deconstruction, Mark Wilcox, Subverting Television programme cat., Arts Council, 1985.
British Film and Video; The New Pluralism cat. intro., Michael O'Pray, Tate Gallery 1985.
Channel 6 exhibition cat., London Video Arts 1986.
The Elusive Sign, Tate Gallery and international tour cat., Arts Council and British Council, 1988.
Shows, Schisms and Modernisms, and TV Fighter (Cam Era Plane), Michael O'Pray, Monthly Film Bulletin magazine, British Film Institute, February, 1988.
Video Positive '89 cat., Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Merseyside Moviola, 1989.
Video-Skulptur, Retrospectiv und Aktuell 1963-1989, DuMont, Cologne, 1989.
19:4:90 Television Interventions cat., Channel 4 TV and touring, Fields and Frames, Scotland, 1990.
Structures, Paraphernalia and Television, David Hall, and other articles, Signs of the Times cat., ed. Chrissie Iles, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1990.
Television as a Creative Medium, Syn Guerin, and David Hall on David Hall, in the Video Art Plastique cat., Herouville-St Clair, Caen, France, 1991.
Before the Concrete Sets, David Hall, And magazine No 26 1991, and London Video Arts cat., 1991.
David Hall, Michael O'Pray, Variant magazine No 11, 1992.
David Hall interview, Alan McCluskey, Scope magazine No 1, Geneva, 1992.
Le temps, l'espace des signes, Anne-Marie Duguet, Signes des Temps exhibition cat., Centre d'Art Contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, Paris, 1993.
Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture, Sean Cubitt, MacMillan 1993.
Arts TV: A History of Arts Television in Britain, John A Walker, Arts Council/John Libbey, 1993.
A Directory of British Film and Video Artists, ed. David Curtis, Arts Council/John Libbey, 1996.
InT/Ventions, Mick Hartney; Early Video Art: A Look at a Controversial History, David Hall, and other essays in Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art, ed. Julia Knight, Arts Council/John Libbey, 1996.
A History of Experimental Film and Video, A L Rees, British Film Institute, 1999.
David Hall interview, Stephen Partridge, Transcript mag., vol 3 no 3, University of Dundee/Morris Julien, 1999
Film Video TV, Nicky Hamlyn, Coil magazine, issue 9/10, 2000.
Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain, 1965-75 cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2000.
A Situation Revisited - David Hall: A Situation Envisaged: The Rite II (Cultural Eclipse), Chrissie Iles, Factor 1989, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, 2001.
Video: un art contemporain, Françoise Parfait, Editions du Regard, Paris 2001.

Works by David Hall 

Stooky Bill TV David Hall 1990

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