Scott F. Hall

About me:

Scott F. Hall, b. 1963, California, U.S.A.

Scott F. Hall is an intermedia artist who in 1985 developed an original form and practice he calls both "scultura sana" (sound sculpture) and "sonus animatio" (moving pictures in sound). He has invented many original instruments including the Optivideotone, electric bass harmonitar, sawtüth minima analog synth, and box serpent. Within his diverse creative paradigm which ranges from sound art to music to instrument design to sculpture to still images and video, Hall produces work for exhibition in contemporary international galleries, museums, festivals, and alternative venues. His work is collected by private individuals worldwide and is included in these and other institutional collections: Kentucky School for the Deaf, Danville; John Sloan Fine Arts Center Gallery, Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania; Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Orquestra del Caos/Sonoscop, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; and Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Casoria, Naples, Italy.

Select exhibitions of Hall's work since the fin de siècle include:

* On an Industrial Estate in Southall, West London (working title for a forthcoming project) by Louise Ashcroft and collaborators including Scott F. Hall, Departure Gallery, 8 Trident Way, The International Trading Estate, Southall, London, England;

* (contestant in) The International Pixelstorm-Award 2009 Digital Competition, (curated by Friends of Pixelstorm, alumni of the Basel School of Design, Switzerland);

* Virtual Mercury Poetry Shuttle Landing on Second Life by Caterina Davinio and collaborators including Scott F. Hall, 9 October 2009, Mercury House One_Save the Poetry, Collateral Events, 53rd Annual International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia (The Venice Biennale), Venice, Italy;

* Riders on the Train Project Exhibition, 6 November - 12 December 2009, Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, 141 Green Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts;

* Zeppelin 2009 Sound Art Festival, 10 – 12 December, Orquestra del Caos/Sonoscop, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;

* Sound of Ebb, an open source sound series within The End of Something critical archive, August 2009, Volume Projects, 114 Amersham Vale, New Cross, London, England;

* Creative currencies vs. False gods, preText section of Itch: Creative Writing and Visual Art edition 03, edited by Mehita Iqani, 2009 Bell-Roberts Gallery & Publishing, Woodstock & Vlaeberg, South Africa;

* DEEP NORTH, transmediale 09 festival for art and digital culture, Club Transmediale, January - February 2009 at Hause der Kulturen der Welt and affiliated venues, Berlin, Germany;

* Typos in the Writing on the Wall Edition #1, 2009, Sarai Media Lab, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, India;

* SoundLab Edition 6: soundPOOL, 2009, SoundLab, Cologne, Germany (also presented at the FILE Electronic Language Festival July - August 2009, Sesi Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil);

* sound:space Sound Art Symposium, November 2008, MediaLAB, South Hill Park, Bracknell, Berks, England;

* Entry into Asterisk Land, preText section of Itch: Creative Writing and Visual Art edition 02, edited by Mehita Iqani, 2008 Bell-Roberts Gallery & Publishing, Woodstock & Vlaeberg, South Africa;

* Minutopia: New Actualities for a New World within Silver Sun: Illuminating the Splendor of the Silent Screen at The Presidio, September 2008, COCA Center for Outdoor Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California;

* The Comfort of Strangers, SoundNetwork's Autonomous Village at Futuresonic, May 2008, Contact Theatre, Manchester, England (courtesy of the SoundNetwork organization of northwestern England and the Arts Council of England);

* Zeppelin 2008 Sound Art Festival, 13 – 15 March, Orquestra del Caos/Sonoscop, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;

* Eco Echo!, live radio broadcast of verbal interview and sound art (White's Mill Pond, SC), 18 September 2007, CKDU 88.1 FM, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (archived and distributed for airplay on radio stations throughout Canada);

* SoundLab Edition 5: soundSTORY, 2007, SoundLab, Cologne, Germany (also presented at the 3rd Digital Art Festival Rosario, Argentina, November 2007, and Valencia, Spain, April 2008, and at the FILE Electronic Language Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 2008);

* ART IS NOT MUTE, 2007, Ersta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (also presented in 2007 at ICA-Dunaújváros, Dunaújváros, Hungary, and the Uppsala Museum of Art, Uppsala, Sweden);

* The Fourth Annual DIGit Media Exposition, September 2007, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance and the New York State Council on the Arts, Narrowsburg, New York;

* Ars Combinatoria: the Art of Combination, March 2007, School of Film and Digital Media, University of Central Florida, Orlando;

* Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost Sound Art and Historical Environment Project, 15 - 19 November 2006, the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology and free103point9, New York, New York;

* Something Else, live radio broadcast of sound art (Singing Tree), 30 July 2006, WLUW 88.7 FM, Chicago, Illinois;

* SoundLab Edition 4: memoryscapes, 2006, SoundLAB, Cologne, Germany (also presented in 2006 at the FILE Electronic Language Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and at the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Casoria, Naples, Italy);

* Wild Information Network, 2006, Department of Art, Ecology, and Technology, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York;

* GLOBALArtLOOK 2003, MatrixArts Space, Sacramento, California;

* Immedia 2003, Ann Arbor Electronic Artist Coalition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;

* AnaDigiTronicA: An Electronic Intermedia Installation by Scott F. Hall, June – July 2003, University Gallery, University of Central Florida, Orlando;

* 6th International All Media Exhibition, 2002, Eklektikos Gallery, Washington DC (juror: Stephen Bennett Phillips, Associate Curator, The Phillips Collection);

* Scott F. Hall: Virtual Figure, Synthetic Landscape, September 2001, John Sloan Fine Arts Center Gallery, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, Pennyslvania.

Hall's education includes undergraduate liberal arts and sciences study at the University of Hawaii and studio art and art history study at the University of Florida (Honors B.F.A., Sculpture) and at Washington University in St. Louis (M.F.A., Sculpture). Hall was formerly Assistant Professor of Computer & Video Imaging at Cogswell Polytechnical College, Sunnyvale, California (1995-1997), and Assistant Professor of Computer Art & Design at S.U.N.Y. Alfred, New York (1997-2000). He is currently tenured Associate Professor of Art in the School of Visual Arts and Design at the University of Central Florida (2000-2009).