Viewers 2026 ART Work in progress by antonyhall - September 17, 2026September 17, 20260 A series of vintage slide viewers, mounted on individual stands, each modified with an ESP32 microcontroller and a 2-inch LED screen. Instead of revealing a photographic slide, each displays a moving eye that appears to return the viewer’s gaze. Generated text unfolds across the screens, creating fleeting reflections on looking, attention and the encounter between artwork and audience.
Earthly Practices – Field Day Notes and writing Research by antonyhall - July 24, 2026July 25, 20260 Today I am meeting with fellow members of the Earthly Practices Research group (MMU) as part of a “Field Day” organised by Rowanna Lacey Ewings. Our group, broadly speaking, is interested in ‘design thinking and practices rooted in interconnection and reciprocity with natural systems’ (1) so we thought it appropriate to put theory into practice. Departure: After frantically amassing sound recording equipment from my studio, I cycled into town and jumped on a train to Hepden Bridge, a small town north of Manchester. As as someoen relitivly new to full-time academic life, these moments of creative space now seem to occur only rarely, in precious but often hectic pockets of time. I find it hard to give myself space away from
Entangled Light (Helen McGhie+Antony Hall) ART by antonyhall - June 6, 2026September 17, 20260 Entangled Light: Soil, Photography and the Garden as Studio by Helen McGhie and Antony Hall [ Find out more here ... ] Entangled Light is a collaborative project with Helen McGhie, developed at the garden at Islington Mill, Salford. I am working as co-investigator, bringing my ongoing experiments with soil-powered and moss-based microbial fuel cells into the project (more information here). The work asks how a garden might become a more-than-human studio, where soil, microbes, plants, light, energy and people all take part in making an image. My contribution focuses on building small microbial batteries using soil gathered from Islington Mill and Incredible Edible Salford’s community garden, alongside found and low-cost materials. These soil-powered cells generate tiny amounts of electricity through the activity of
Geo-Sounder v1 Research by antonyhall - March 21, 2026March 21, 20260 This p5.js sketch turns live earthquake data into an audio-visual replay. It pulls recent earthquake events from the USGS feed, filters them to a chosen geographic region, and compresses that activity into a short looping timeline on screen. As each quake appears in the replay, it is drawn as a pulsing visual marker and also triggers a bell-like tone, creating a shifting map of seismic activity that can be both seen and heard. The code was created with help of AI. The following is an AI generated description of the code functionality: Main functions fetchQuakes() This is the data-loading function. It connects to the selected USGS GeoJSON feed, reads the earthquake records, and converts them into a simpler internal format containing magnitude, place name,