G.H. Hovagimyan - Biography

Biography

G.H. Hovagimyan is an experimental new-media artist whose work spans network art, performance, video, sound, interactive installation, artificial intelligence, and collaborative systems. Working with the Internet since the early 1990s, his practice explores language, participation, technological identity, and the changing relationship between humans and machines. His current work extends these investigations through artificial intelligence, synthetic voice, digital doubles, archives, and conversational artworks.

In 1996 Hovagimyan began a long-term collaboration with British artist Peter Sinclair. Their collaborative works, including A SoaPOPera for Laptops, Shooter, Rant/Rant Back, and Heartbreak Hotel, have been exhibited internationally in Europe and the United States. In 1998, A SoaPOPera for Laptops received a prize in the Computer Music category at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.

Awards, commissions, and residencies include a Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention (1998), an Eyebeam Artist Residency and Franklin Furnace Artist Fellowship (2002), an Experimental Television Center Fellowship (2003), a Turbulence Commission (2009), a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Governors Island Residency (2010), and a Harvestworks New Works Residency (2016). In 2026, his early Internet artwork Cocktail Party was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art's artport: A History of Internet Art.

Hovagimyan lives and works in Pennsylvania, where his studio practice brings together new work in artificial intelligence and digital media with the restoration and reactivation of earlier networked, interactive, and performance works.

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