Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Benjamin Hall
Senior Lecturer
Ben is an animator, illustrator and interactive designer with over 15 years industry experience. He has taught undergraduate students at Leeds Beckett University since 2008.
Ben has worked as an animator on a number of broadcast animation productions including the BAFTA award-winning series Charlie And Lola and Little Howard’s Big Question for the BBC. He has also worked on a number of interactive projects for children including online games for Children’s ITV and an eSafety platform for primary schools.
Ben runs Inkco a studio where he directs and creates animated and interactive content for broadcast clients.
Current Teaching
Ben currently teaches on the second year of BA (Hons) Graphic Arts and Design. He also teaches traditional animation workshops to first years and offers subject-specific support to third years working in moving image.
Research Interests
Ben is currently studying for an MPhil which explores authorship, ownership and storytelling via diverse methods of chance: digital random, analogue tombola-pick or the influence of a wayward toddler. He is interested in creating opportunities for new narratives using uncertainty, surprise and the unknown acting as instigator, collaborator and subject. This work spans animation, coding, creative writing, performance, assemblage and documentary.
Project Something is a collaboration between Benjamin Hall and Jonathan Briggs which explores data, chance and storytelling within a post-digital landscape. This ongoing enquiry of practice and research aims to present the narrative and narrative-less-ness of this data as new compositions and opportunities. Outputs include Instagramophone and Another Engine which have featured at Sheffield Design Week and Leeds Digital Festival.
Selected Outputs
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Hall B (2021) Slow Code: a convention at the digital divide.
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Hall B (2020) Trust the Process. In: Experiential Design – Rethinking relations between people, objects and environments, 16 January 2020 - 17 January 2020, Florida State University.
http://architecturemps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AMPS-Proceedings-18-1-Experiential-Design.pdf
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Hall B; Hall R (2018) Dum Dum (De De Bom).
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Hall BD (2017) Permission to Play (Playful Learning Conference). In: Playful Learning Conference, 13 July 2017, Manchester Metropolitan University.
http://conference.playthinklearn.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Full-abstracts-PL17.pdf
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Hall BD (2017) Wordhouse. In: Playful Learning Conference, 13 July 2017, Manchester Metropolitan University..
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Hall BD (2017) Permission to Play (Practice as Research - A Symposium). In: Practice as Research - A Symposium, 5 May 2017, Leeds Beckett University.
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Hall BD (2016) Code of Play. In: Work and Play: An Interdisciplinary Conference 2016, 6 July 2016, Manchester.
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Hall BD (2015) Power of Play. In: Symplaysium, 26 September 2015, The Tetley, Leeds.
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Hall BD (2016) Crash Landing: Design, Website Content & Software
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Hall BD (2016) Instagramophone.
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Hall BD (2016) Instagramophone.
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Hall BD (2016) Another Engine.
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Hall BD (In press) Project Something.
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Hall BD (In press) Tumblrweed.
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Hall BD (2016) Exploding The University.
