Perry Hoberman is an installation artist who has worked extensively with machines and media. His career has included stints with Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...

 and the USC Interactive Media Division

USC Interactive Media Division

The University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts's Interactive Media Division first accepted students in 2002. In addition to coursework in film production, screenwriting, and animation, students in the division study across three disciplines within interactive media: immersive...

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He has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...

, 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

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

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His work is included in the 2004 exhibition Open House: Working In Brooklyn.

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.

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.

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.

Education

Hoberman started at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia in 1972, and earned his Bachelor's degree from Bennington College

Bennington College

Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont, USA. The college was founded in 1932 as a women's college and became co-educational in 1969.-History:-Early years:...

 in Bennington, VT (1974–77). In 1978, he participated in an independent study program at Whitney Museum in New York.

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.

Hoberman is currently represented by Postmasters Gallery

Postmasters (art gallery)

Postmasters is a contemporary art gallery located on 19th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan owned and directed by Magda Sawon and Tamas Banovich...

 in New York. In 2002 he was both a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellow.

Solo Exhibitions

The following is a list of solo exhibitions by Hoberman:

• Symptomatic - 2001 - National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford
• 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 Miró, 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 - John Michael Kohler Arts 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 - São Paulo Biennial, 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 - 2001 (National Museum of Photography, Film & Television / Bradford College / University of Bradford)
• 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

External links

• Perry Hoberman: audio excerpt from: "Smaller Than Life" published at Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine
  Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine
  Launched from the Lower East Side, Manhattan, in 1983 as a subscription only bimonthly publication, the Tellus cassette series took full advantage of the popular cassette medium to promote cutting-edge downtown music, documenting the New York scene and advancing experimental composers of the time...