[-empyre-] introducing GH Hovagimyan on "Bare Life"

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

dear -empyreans-

Introducing a third guest, GH Hovagimyan (US)


G. H. Hovagimyan is an experimental cross media, new media and  
performance artist who lives and works in New York City. Born in  
1950, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, he is one of the first artists in  
New York to start working in Internet Art, beginning in 1993, with  
such artist's online groups as the thing, ArtNetWeb, and Rhizome.  
From 1973 to 1986 GH was involved in the SoHo and Lower East Side  
underground art scene, showing conceptual works at  112 Workshop in  
1973.  He worked with Gordon Matta-Clark on several projects,  
including.  Days’ End, Conical Intersect, Walking Man’s Arch, and  
Underground Explorations. In 1974 during the video-performance series  
at 112 Greene Street, he performed opposite Spaulding Gray in Richard  
Serra's video, A Prisoner's Dilemma.

Much of his early work is ephemeral in nature. Active in performance  
art, written and language works, GH used text conceptually in  
installation.  HIs word piece, Tactics for Survival in the New  
Culture, was exhibited in "The Manifesto Show" (1979) organized by  
the artist collective colab. This particular piece was to become the  
basis for one of his first online hypertext works in 1993. He showed  
in several group exhibitions organized by Jean Dupuy, a French Fluxus  
artist living in New York.  In 1980 he did a series of punk  
performance pieces for Artist's Space series called Open Mic. One  
piece, Rich Sucker Rap was recorded by Davidson Gigliotti for a video  
tape called Chant A capella (now in the Electronic Arts Intermix  
catalog) . He also performed in several No Wave Cinema films among  
them, The Offenders(1980) by Scott B & Beth B and The Deadly Art of  
Survival by Charles Ahearn.  In May, 1994 he created  twenty  
billboard project for Creative Time, Hey Bozo… Use Mass Transit,   
widely publicized on television and in print media.  His early  
internet based works, such as  BKPC, Art Direct and, Faux Conceptual  
Art, converged conceptual practice with punk aesthetics on the net.   
His pioneering internet radio/TV talk show ,  Art Dirt, is part of  
the Walker Art Center's Digital Studies Archives collection. Of his  
collaborative works with Peter Sinclair, the most well known are a  
Soapopera for Laptops/ iMacs, Shooter and Rant/ Rant Back/ Back Rant.  
Shooter, an immersive sound and laser installation was developed at  
Eyebeam Atelier as part of its’ Artist in Residence program.

His new work involves mash-ups online with new art dirt redux at  
http://nujus.net/gh/ and http://post.thing.net/gh/  He is also active  
making HD video installations and curating, most recently for SCOPE   
Hamptons art fair  http://www.scope-art.com/main.php July 13-16,  
2006. He'll be presenting excerpts from an HDV database http:// 
nujus.net/gh_04/gallery10.html.



-c