Presenter Announcement – Tom Hall
Tom Hall is a media artist based in Brisbane, Australia.
Hall's eclectic works flourish by utilising a variety of mediums, each that reflect on his varied background and interests. With a strong focus on elements of the 'everyday' Hall's practice involves considered explorations into place, space and time. Drawing inspiration from countless spaces, Hall focuses on using multiple approaches to engage and recontextualise them to the public. Hall’s interest and focus on the ‘everyday’ stems from time growing up as a child in rural isolation in Tasmania, a place Hall still feels very attached. It would seem that this isolation gave Hall an enhanced ability to see and isolate viscerally appealing qualities within nature and man-made environment that others often pass by without acknowledgement.In a live performance context Hall projects multi-channel video pieces drawing from a data base of found footage, composing and layering in real-time. The outcome of this is a large, immersive performance that is viscerally enticing, engaging and results in the creation of hyper environment that represents the vast areas, places and music that Hall finds inspiring. In the studio Hall takes his interest in a variety of music qualities and uses these to combine, process and manipulate sound through a combination of processes including computer and analog based manipulation; creating Reverb Chambers from old water tanks and polycarbonate bottles; replaying composition in environments they originated from and; tape manipulation.Hall has presented live performances, exhibitions and installations extensively both in Australia and abroad in the past 5 years throughout Japan, UK, Europe and America. Hall has worked, collaborated and played along side artists such as Steinbruchel, Tim Hecker, Jason Khan, Lawrence English, Takashi Kojima, Haco, Samm Bennet, Skist, Oren Ambarchi, Christoper Willits and Scott Arford.
