Perry Hoberman

Perry Hoberman
Born 1954
Known for New Media Art

Perry Hoberman (born 1954),[1] 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.[2]

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 2004 exhibition Open House: Working In Brooklyn.

His work

Perry Hoberman at 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.[3]

Bar Code Hotel

Bar Code Hotel recycles the ubiquitous symbols found on every consumer product to create a 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.[3]

Systems 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.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5]

Hoberman is currently represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York.[1] In 2002 he was both a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellow.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

The following is a list of solo exhibitions by Hoberman:[3]

Group Exhibitions

The following are list of group exhibitions by Hoberman:[3]

Teaching

The following are teaching position held by Hoberman:[3]

Grants

The following are grants awarded to Hoberman:[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Perry Hoberman". People — Artists, researchers, developers, curators, writers and their relations to V2_. V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media. 2011-05-12. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
  2. ↑ "Perry Hoberman, B.A.". Faculty Directory. University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Perry Hoberman - works".
  4. ↑ "Media Arts Fellowships". Retrieved 2008-01-29.
  5. ↑ "The World Technology Network - 2004 World Technology Awards Winners & Finalists".

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