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David Hall studied at Leicester College of Art and the Royal College of Art. During the 1960s he worked as a sculptor and showed his work internationally. He won first prize at the Biennale de Paris in 1965 and took part in other key shows including the seminal Primary Structures exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York in 1966 which marked the beginning of Minimalist art.
In 1966 he was a founder of the pioneering artists' organisation Artist Placement Group, APG, along with Barbara Steveni, John Latham, Barry Flanagan, Anna Ridley, and Jeffrey Shaw among others. APG was a milestone in Conceptual Art in Britain, reinventing the means of making and disseminating art.
It was during this time he began working with film and at the beginning of the 1970s turned to video as an art medium.
His work in video and his writings in Studio International and elsewhere contributed to the establishment of this as a genre in the visual arts, and it was here he introduced the term "time based media". He was curator of early shows, and influenced emerging artists as a teacher... (Wikipedia)
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David Hall - TV Interruptions: Tap piece (full version) 1971
..an early TV intervention by David Hall. This is one of ten 'TV Interruptions' by Hall broadcast on Scottish Television unannounced and without credit in 1971. (Later seven of the ten were issued as '7 TV Pieces'). "David Hall's work set the stage for an era in which artists took up the camera to challenge television's established formulations and its power as a medium of social control... his interventions almost established a genre, with subsequent works by [for example] Stan Douglas, Bill Viola and Chris Burden following the form of unannounced disturbances.." Eye magazine, no.60, 2006. "These have come to be regarded as the first example of British artists' television and as an equally formative moment in British video art" Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art, 1996. "The transmissions were a surprise, a mystery. No explanations, no excuses. Reactions were various. I viewed one piece in an old gents' club. The TV was permanently on but the occupants were oblivious to it, reading newspapers or dozing. When the TV began to fill with water newspapers dropped, the dozing stopped. When the piece finished normal activity was resumed. When announcing to shop assistants and engineers in a local TV shop that another was about to appear they welcomed me in. When it finished I was obliged to leave by the back door. I took these as positive reactions..." DH, 19:4:90 Television Interventions catalogue, 1990. For more info go to: http://www.davidhallart.com
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