Perry Hoberman

Infobox Artist
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name = Perry Hoberman


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birthdate = 1954
field = New Media Art
Years_active = 1983 to present

Biography

Perry Hoberman (born 1954), cite web |url= http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/actor/.xslt/nodenr-65933|title= V2_Archive - biography |author= |date= |work= |publisher=] is an installation artist who has worked extensively with machines and media. His career has included stints with Laurie Anderson and the USC Interactive Media Division.He has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the graduate Computer Art Department in the school of Visual Arts in New York. He is currently an Associate Research Professor in the Interactive Media Division at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, as well as a visiting artist at the California Institute of the Arts. His work is included in the exhibition "Open House: Working In Brooklyn", currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum. cite web |url= http://cinema.usc.edu/faculty/hoberman-perry.htm|title= USC School of Cinematic Arts |author= |date= |work= |publisher=]

His work

Hoberman work focuses on the interactive nature of people and technology. 'Bar Code Hotel' and 'Systems Maintenance' are two exhibitions that demonstrate this aspect. cite web |url= http://www.perryhoberman.com|title= Perry Hoberman - works |author= |date= |work= |publisher=]

Bar Code Hotel

Bar Code Hotel recycles the ubiquitous symbols found on every consumer product to create an multi-user interface to an unruly virtual environment. The installation makes use of a number of strategies to create a casual, social, multi-person interface. The public simultaneously influences and interacts with computer-generated objects in an oversized three-dimensional projection, scanning and transmitting printed bar code information instantaneously into the computer system. The objects, each corresponding to a different user, exist as semi-autonomous agents that are only partially under the control of their human collaborators.

ystems Maintenance

Systems Maintenance consists of three versions of a furnished room. An ensemble of life-sized furniture occupies a large circular platform on the floor, a virtual room is displayed on a computer monitor, and a 1/8 size physical scale model of the room is presented on a small pedestal. Each version is imaged by a camera (either video or virtual), and the three resulting images are combined into a single large-scale video projection. The camera position, height, angle and field of view are matched between the three cameras. By moving the furniture and camera viewpoints for each of the three rooms, visitors can match or mismatch the components of each of the rooms as they appear in the projected image.

Education

Hoberman started at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia in 1972, and earned his Bachelor's degree from Bennington College in Bennington, VT (1974-77). In 1978, he participated in an independent study program at Whitney Museum in New York. cite web |url= http://mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist&sub=detail&artist_id=624|title= Media Arts Fellowships|accessdate=2008-01-29 |author= |date= |work= |publisher=]

Awards

His installation "Timetable" was awarded the Grand Prix at the ICC Biennale '99 in Tokyo, and "Systems Maintenance" won a 1999 Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction. "Unexpected Obstacles", a retrospective survey of his work, was exhibited during summer 1998 at the ZKM Mediamuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany, and before that at Gallery Otso in Espoo, Finland. cite web |url= http://www.wtn.net/2004/bio318.html|title= The World Technology Network - 2004 World Technology Awards Winners & Finalists |author= |date= |work= |publisher=]

Hoberman is currently represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York. In 2002 he was both a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellow.

Exhibitions

olo Exhibitions

The following are list of solo exhibitions by Hoberman:

*"Cathartic User Interface" - 2000 - Postmasters Gallery, New York
*"Timetable" - 2000 - Postmasters Gallery, New York
*"Faraday’s Garden" - 1999 - Kingston-Upon-Hull, New York
*"Systems Maintenance and "Faraday's Garden" - 1998 - Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, New York
*"Lightpools or El Bal del Fanalet" - 1998 - Fundació Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
*"Unexpected Obstacles" - 1998 - Karlsruhe, Germany
*"Sorry We're Open" - 1998 - Postmasters Gallery, New York
*"Faraday's Islands" - 1995 - Boston University, Massachusetts
*"Bar Code Hotel" - 1994 - Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
*"Zombies, Has-Beens & Excess Baggage" - 1992 - Postmasters Gallery, New York
*"Faraday's Garden" - 1991 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton, Ohio
*"Corporate Entities" - 1998 - Postmasters Gallery, New York
*"Lightleakers" - 1986 - Postmasters Gallery, New York
*"Dead Space/Living Rooms" - 1985 Capp Street Project, San Francisco
*"Works in 3D (Stereoshadows)" - 1985 Postmasters Gallery, New York
*"Inside Out" - 1984 - Galerie Pon, Zurich, Switzerland
*"Out of the Picture" - 1983 - Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York

Group Exhibitions

The following are list of group exhibitions by Hoberman:

*"Vision Ruhr" - 2000 - Dortmund, Germany
*"Alien Intelligence" - 2000 - Helsinki, Finland
*"Microwave Festival 2000" - 2000 - Hong Kong
*"Cyber" - 1999 - Lisbon, Portugal
*"Techne" - 1999 - Milan, Italy
*"Interaction" - 1999 - NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
*"Cyberarts 99" - 1999 - Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
*"Beyond Technology" - 1999 - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
*"European Media Art Festival" - 1999 - Osnabruck, Germany
*"Perspective" - 1999 - C3, Muscarnok, Budapest
*"The Art of the Accident" - 1998 - DEAF98, Rotterdam
*"Interpreting" - 1998 - Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn
*"The Hole" - 1998 - Postmasters Gallery, New York
*"Electra" - 1996 - Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway
*"Le laboratoire" - 1996 - Saint-Denis, France
*"Password: Ferdydurke" - 1996 - Postmasters Gallery, New York
*"Constriction" - 1996 - Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn
*"Can You Digit" - 1996 - Postmasters Gallery, New York
*"The Crest Hardware Show" - 1996 - Brooklyn, New York
*"Neo-Kinetics: Postmodern Techne" - 1996 - Eighth Floor Gallery, New York
*"DEAF 95" - 1995 - Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam
*"Tech Bash" - 1995 - Blasthaus Gallery, San Francisco
*"Arc Gallery" - 1995 - International Media Festival, Los Angeles
*"Cyber Art" - 1994 - Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
*"Simply Made in America" - 1994 - Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati
*"Sound and Motion" - 1994 - Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, North Carolina
*"Resurrections: Objects with New Souls" - 1994 - William Benton Museum, Hartford, Connecticut
*"Benefit Exhibition" - 1994 - Capp Street Project, San Francisco
*"Machine Culture" - 1993 - Anaheim, California
*"Simply Made in America" - 1993 - Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
*"Images du Futur 93" - 1993 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
*"Perspectives, Proximities, Perceptions" - 1993 - Montage 93, Rochester, New York
*"In Praise of Folly" - 1992 - Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
*"Technorama" - 1992 - Barbara Toll Gallery, New York
*"Art Show" - 1992 - Chicago, Illinois
*"The Living Room" - 1991 - San Francisco, California
*"Tweeking the Human" - 1991 - Brand Name Damages, Brooklyn, New York
*"Waterfront Show" - 1991 - Minor Injury, Brooklyn, New York
*"Postmasters Gallery" - 1991 - New York
*"Springworks" - 1989 - New York Hall of Science
*"Signals" - 1989 - Queensborough Community College, Queens, New York
*"Poetic Justice" - 1988 - Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York
*"Art on the Beac2h" - 1987 - Creative Time, Long Island City, New York
*"Art in the Dark" - 1987 - City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey
*"The Fairy Tale" - 1986 - Artists Space, New York
*"CinemaObject" - 1986 - The Kitchen at City Gallery, New York
*"Mythologies" - 1986 - Diane Brown Gallery, New York
*"Brave New World/New Generation" - 1986 - Denmark & Sweden
*"Paintings/Objects" - 1986 - Postmasters Gallery, New York
*"TV Generations" - 1986 - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
*"Between Science & Fiction" - 1985 - Sao Paulo Bienial, Brazil
*"Modern Machines" - 1985 - Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York
*"Biennial Exhibition" - 1985 - Whitney Museum, New York
*"Found Language" - 1984 - Franklin Furnace, New York
*"Science and Prophecy" - 1984 - White Columns, New York
*"Dark Rooms" - 1983 - Artists Space, New York
*"Constructed Color" - 1982 - Hayden Gallery, MIT, Boston, Massachusetts

Teaching

The following are teaching position held by Hoberman:

*Instructor, MFA Photography - (1999-00) School of Visual Arts, New York
*Instructor, MFA Computer Arts - (1996-00) , School of Visual Arts, New York
*Visiting Artist - (1998) - Bard College, New York
*Adjunct Faculty - (1992-94) - Cooper Union, New York
*Instructor - (1994) - School of Visual Arts, New York

Grants

The following are grants awarded to Hoberman:

*Grand Prix - 1999 - ICC Biennale
*Bradford Fellowship
*Award of Distinction in Interactive Art - 1999 - Prix Ars Electronica
*First Place, art's_edge Multimedia Competition - 1999 - Art Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
*Design Distinction - 1997 - I.D. Interactive Media Design Review, New York
*Archetype Award for Overall Excellence - 1995 - Interactive Media Festival
*New York Foundation for the Arts - 1989
*Engelhart Foundation Award - 1985
*New York Foundation for the Arts - 1985
*National Endowment for the Arts - 1984

References

External links

* [http://www.ubu.com/sound/tellus_5-6.html Perry Hoberman: audio excerpt from: "Smaller Than Life"] published at Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine