Three related series of electronic images
are represented in the Lock Haven University
September 2001 art exhibition, Scott F.
Hall: Virtual Figure, Synthetic Landscape.
Hall’s 48 digital prints reveal his
interest in extending the historical traditions
of portrait and landscape into the 21st
century through the fairly new mediums of
2-D and 3-D computer graphics. Through use
of intense color and exotic forms that echo
science fiction and film industry special
effects, Hall’s works exude a quiet
and introspective enthusiasm for futurism
and new technologies. In his show, we obtain
a glimpse of a population of virtual human
beings presented as transcendent, electronically-evolved
lifeforms inhabiting synthetic, digital
worlds within the machine.
Scott F. Hall, an artist and art professor
at the University of Central Florida, Orlando,
has exhibited in twelve U.S. states and
in 3DROM II, an international CDROM publication
by Syndesis Corporation. Before joining
U.C.F. in August 2000, Hall founded studies
in computer animation at S.U.N.Y., Alfred,
New York, and developed computer animation
studies at Cogswell College, Sunnyvale,
California. He worked formerly as artist,
musician, and TV commercial animator, and
has served as co-advisor to the Santa Clara
County Arts Council on Future Developments
in Art and Technology in California's Silicon
Valley. He has been nominated for the S.U.N.Y.
Chancellor's Award For Excellence in Teaching
and for three honorary doctorates. Hall
studied art at the University of Hawaii,
the University of Florida (BFA), at Edinburgh
College of Art (Scotland), and at Washington
University in St. Louis (MFA).
Hall’s students have worked as digital
artists and technicians in the films: Shrek,
The Mummy Returns, Space Cowboys, Mission
to Mars, Antz, and The Postman; in the digital
opera: Monsters of Grace by Philip Glass;
and in the exhibition venues: SIGGRAPH,
Tortured Artists Film Festival (Tacoma),
Independent Exposure (Prague), Cabbagetown
Film Festival (Toronto), and the International
Film Association (San Francisco). |