David Hall (video artist)

David Hall
From TV Interruptions broadcast unannounced by Scottish Television, 1971
Born	1937 Leicester, England
Died	October , 2014(2014-10-00)
Nationality	British
Education	Leicester College of Art Royal College of Art, London
Notable work	Video 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) 1001 TV Sets (End Piece) (1972-2012)
Movement	Sculpture, Conceptual art, Experimental film, Video art
Awards	Samsung Art+ Lifetime Achievement Award 2012

David Hall (born 1937 in Leicester, died October 2014) was an English artist, whose pioneering work contributed much to establishing video as an art form.

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.

In 1971 he made ten "Interruptions" broadcast intentionally unannounced and uncredited on Scottish Television. Seven of these works were later distributed on video as TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces), and are acknowledged as the first artist interventions on British television and as an equally formative moment in British video art. The first multi-channel video installation shown in the UK was his 60 TV Sets at the exhibition A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, Gallery House, London 1972, which was expanded as 101 TV Sets at The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, London 1975 (both made in collaboration with the film artist Tony Sinden). 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. Other works by artists had been broadcast by now, but Hall set out to turn the domestic television set into a form of video sculpture through the intervention of his transmitted images.