Benjamin Hall
Artist Bio
I am an artist, gamemaker, animator, filmmaker and writer based in Glasgow. My work often studies confusion in contemporary digitised societies, interrogating conflations of chaos and entropic predictability under late capitalism. As a productive thesis extending from this, I have looked to othered forms of knowledge as rational systems fail me - the mythic, extrarational, extraterrestrial and supernatural. In the last year, I have been creating games and virtual spaces in which to present artwork in innovative ways; sometimes in large-scale group projects I lead, sometimes alone - using 3D exploration, hypertext and branching narratives to immerse and activate players. I believe the interactive, immersive medium has huge potential to facilitate agential experiences of art, and as worldbuilding becomes core to my practice it seems ever more essential.