Perry Hoberman
2002 Fellow
Brooklyn, NY
Table of Contents
Images projected onto small white boxes and a tabletop shift in response to participants’ manipulation of the boxes, representing and misrepresenting their virtual “labels” and “contents.”
Selected Works
Installation
Workaholic (2000)
Timetable (1999)
Systems Maintenance (1998)
Sorry, We’re Open (1997)
The Sub-division of the Electric Light (1996)
Bar Code Hotel (1994)
Faraday’s Garden (1990)
Accomplishments
Exhibitions: Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, 2002; National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford, England, 2001; Postmasters Gallery, New York, 2000; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, 1998; Otso Gallery, Espoo, Finland, 1997; Boston University, 1995; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, 1994; Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton, OH, 1991

Awards and Grants: Bradford Fellowship, National Museum of Film, Photography & Television, Bradford, England, 2001; Grand Prize, ICC Biennale, Tokyo, 1999; Award of Distinction in Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; First Place, art’s_edge Multimedia Competition, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Mount Lawley, 1998

Teaching: School of Visual Arts, New York, 1996-2002; Adjunct Faculty, Cooper Union, New York, 1992-1994; Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, 1991

Artist-In-Residence, Xerox PARC PAIR Project, 1995

Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum, New York, 1978
Education
1977 BA, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1973 Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia
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News
July - August 2005
Perry Hoberman exhibited two digital prints and an installation at SIGGRAPH 2005 in Los Angeles this summer: My Life in Spam: One Week (November 1-30, 1998) and My Life in Spam: One Day (December 11, 2002), which consist of superimposed images of every spam email message Hoberman received over a given period of time, and Art Under Contract (End User License Agreement), which satirizes the endless attempts to price and profit from what has become known as "intellectual property.
May-June 2003
Perry Hoberman's Timetable, an installation that undergoes constant transformation as it is used, exhibited at the Courtyard Gallery in New York in May.
March 2003
Perry Hoberman's installation Accept, which explores the digital intimacy of spam, intellectual property and the exchange of personal information for goods and services, was at the Postermasters Gallery in New York in January.