Curriculum Vitae

PROFILE
G.H. Hovagimyan is an experimental artist and foundational figure in net.art and the digital avant-garde. His work spans conceptual art, performance, video, internet art, interactive installation, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, text, sound, and social practice. Since the early 1990s, he has been recognized as one of the first artists in New York to work with the internet as an artistic medium, participating in early online art communities including The Thing, ArtNetWeb, and Rhizome. His practice investigates communication systems, digital identity, institutional structures, authorship, and the body's relationship to technology.

EDUCATION

BFA – University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1972

SELECTED WORKS

2025 - NO/NU, hybrid performance work using guitar loops and synthesized voice
2025 - DepotMTV
2025 - QR Election/Selection NFTs
2024 - SatHands/NewSat
2024 - QR Election/Selection
2020 - AR Column
2019 - At Home In Space, augmented reality exhibition, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY
2017 - AR/VR
2014 - AR Paintings
2014 - Post Browser
2013 - The Spiral Slide / Resbalin Interactivo
2012 - 3D Karaoke
2003 - Rant/Rant Back, collaboration with Peter Sinclair
2002 - Shooter, collaboration with Peter Sinclair
1995 - Art Direct / Sex, Violence & Politics
1994 - Faux Conceptual Art
1993 - BKPC
1993 - Terrorist Advertising

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:

2021 - Split Festival for New Film, Split, Croatia
2017 - Split Festival for New Film, Split, Croatia
2015 - Totems & Technology, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
2015 - Ensign Sgr A*, Radiator Arts, Long Island City, NY
2014 - Cutlog Art Fair, New York, NY
2014 - Separation Anxiety, Wallplay Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - Project Inc. Revisited, Churner & Churner, New York, NY
2011 - Being and Event, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
2011 - Art, Access & Decay: New York 1975-1985, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2010 - Floating Worlds, LMCC Governors Island, New York, NY
2009 - Turbulence @ Pace Digital Gallery, New York, NY
2008 - Supermodern, Moscow Center for Contemporary Art, Russia
2008 - Films a Emporter, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2007
- NewMediaFest 2007, Cologne, GDR
- Video Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
- Pocket Films, Pompidou Center, Paris, FR
- Furious, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
- CIRCA 07, San Juan, PR
- 1800 Frames take 3 Pioneer Theater, NYC
2006
- 1800 Frames, CWOW, Newark, NJ
- Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
- Art Basel Miami
- IFAC @ Scope Miami
- Computer Fine Arts Collection by Doron Golan, [DAM] Berlin
- Pixel Pops, C2C Gallery, Prague, CZ
- Video-Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
- Cinema-Scope- Scope Hamptons, NY
- Digit Festival – NY
- Scanners – New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York
2005
Burlesque Contemporain, Jeu du Paume, Paris, France
2004
- Theater & Crossover Festival Groningen, NL
- Digit, digital film festival, DVAA, Narrowsburg, NY
2003
- Open Source 3 , La Gaite du Lyrique, Paris, FR
- Split Festival, Film & New Media, Split, Croatia
2002
- Beta-Launch , Eyebeam, NYC
- Split Festival, Film & New Media, Split, Croatia
2001
(re)distributions: PDA, Information Appliance, and Nomadic Arts, <http://www.voyd.com/ia>
- DaisyChain, Chateaux Servieres, Marseille, France
2000
- Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
- Interferences, 2nd International Festival of Urban Multimedia Arts, Belfort, France
- Call & Response (Can I Speak to a Human?) The Kitchen, NYC
- A soaPOPera for iMacs, Avignon Numerique, Avignon, FR
1999 - Sound Artists of North America, Musee Art Contemporain, Lyon, FR
1998 - Les Musiques, Musee Art Contemporain, Marseille,FR
1997- Port-MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Mass. Inst. Tech., Boston, MA

ONLINE PROJECTS/ ONLINE EXHIBITIONS

2007
Expanded Media, Kunstverein, Stuttgart, GDR
2006 - Present
RANTAPOD online video performance blog https://gh.nujus.net/timeline/rantapod
exhibited --
Afllatus Project, London, UK <http://www.afflatusproject.com/>
2005 - Present
Art Dirt Redux https://gh.nujus.net/timeline/art-dirt-redux
exhibited --
To Be Listened To ... MTAA-RR podcast archive

LECTURES/PANELS/TEACHING/HONORARIA

2006
New Media Jury- Split New Film Festival, Split, Croatia
2005
Podcast workshop, Ecole National Superiére D'Art de Nice, France
2004
Creating, Curating and Consuming Digital Art- panelist,
Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, CA
2003
Digital Artist Fellowship Experimental television Center
The Alternative Museum - TAM Digital Media Commissions
2002
Franklin Furnace fellowship-The Future of the Present
Filmwinter Festival, presenter , Stuttgart, Germany
2001-2002
Eyebeam Atelier artist residency (pilot program)
1995-2000
NYCACM siggraph Cybercasting conference, Presenter
14th annual SVA National Conference on Liberal Arts, Presenter
Ars Electronica ‘98 Computer Music (honorary mention)
Pierre Schaefer Center (CICV), Belfort, FR digital artists residency
Professor, School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Arts Dept. NYC
Panelist, Port-MIT, List Center for the Visual Arts, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist (lecturer)-
Ecole D’art D’aix-en-Provence, France
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,TN
Cornell College, Iowa (program for innovative teaching and learning, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
Visiting Artist in Intermedia, University of Iowa

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2007
Popper, Frank, From Technological to Virtual Art, pub. MIT Press, Boston, MA pp.334-340 2006
Wands, Bruce, Art of the Digital Age, pub. Thames & Hudson, New York,2006
2002
Wands. Bruce, Digital Creativity , pub.John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002, pp.207-209
2001
Net Art News; Mediations on Information <http://www.rhizome.org>
Silicon Alley Reporter,May 2001, issue 44, Jane Roh, High (-Finance) Art
Artforum, March 2001, Mark Tribe : Hotlist pp.41
2000
Wired News, Net Art With a Groove <http://www.wired.com/news/culture>
1999
Art in America, Apr. 1999, Robert Atkins, State of the (On-Line) Art pp. 92
1998
Village Voice, Feb. 17 Vol.XLIII No.7, Austin Bunn, Machine Age
1997
NY Times, Sun. Apr. 13, Styles Section
1996
Design News 95/96 “Cutting Edge New York”
1995
Art in America, December, “Art On Line” pp. 63
Creative Time 94/95 catalog pp. 27

Collections:
Digital Archives -
Walker Art Center, Digital Studies Archive
Whitney Museum Art Port
The Alternative Museum <http://www.alternativemuseum.org/exh/gh/gh.html>
The Cornell University Library, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
<http://www.computerfinearts.com>
Perpetual Art Machine