Biography

Perry Hoberman is an installation and performance artist who works with a variety of technologies, ranging from utterly obsolete to seasonably state-of-the-art. His installation "Bar Code Hotel" was awarded the top prize at the 1995 Interactive Media Festival in Los Angeles, and has also been shown at Ars Electronica. "Faraday's Garden", a viewer-activated appliance installation, has also been exhibited widely. Other ongoing projects include a variety of stereo 3D installations and performances, and "The Empty Orchestra Cafe", a radical Neo-Karaoke Bar. His paper "Mistakes and Misbehavior in Cyberspace" was presented at 5CYBERCONF in Madrid this year. Hoberman currently teaches in the graduate Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is the Art Director at Telepresence Research, a company specializing in virtual reality and telepresence installations for arts and industry. His work is represented by Postmaters Gallery.

http://www.portola.com/PEOPLE/PERRY/perry.html

Quotes

Perry Hoberman
Meme and Variations

"On the eve of a new millenium, we rush to find ourselves a new position, a new subject, a subject outside the realm of the human - we want the posthuman, and we want it now. (...) Now I’m performing another experiment. I want to fashion myself into the perfect vessel for the reception of memes. If I conceive of my own mind as a space to be filled by memes, that conception in itself should make my mind more receptive to these selfsame memes. Therefore, to receive the memes, my mind has to first ingest the meme: ‘My mind is a meme space’. I want to speed up the pace of may personal cultural evolution to approximately the level of the Indy 500. I want to do my part. My memes are ready and waiting for yours. All of us are anxious for progeny."