Hugo Heyrman
Hugo Heyrman | |
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 Dr. Hugo Heyrman playing at the Florian, Venice 1997 | |
| Born | 20 December 1942 |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Known for | Painting. drawing, photography, film, digital media |
Hugo Heyrman (born 20 December 1942), known by his
artist name Dr. Hugo Heyrman, is a leading Belgian painter, filmmaker, internet pioneer, synesthesia and new media researcher.[1]
Early life and education
Dr. Hugo Heyrman was born in
Universidad de La Laguna, in Tenerife with a thesis on Art & Computers: an exploratory investigation on the digital transformation of art.[2]
Career
From his earliest work, Heyrman developed a specific vision on the nature of
senses and synaesthesia
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During the sixties, Heyrman profiled himself as an avant-garde artist with happenings, film- and video experiments.[3] Online since 1995, Heyrman became one of the pioneers in Net.art.[4] He also participated in 1988 at the 'First International Symposium on Electronic Art' (FISEA) in Utrecht.
In 1995, Heyrman coined the terms "tele-synaesthesia"[5] and "post-ego".[6] Since 1993 he is a working member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels. As of 2006 he was a professor at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Antwerp.
Projects
- Continental Video & Film Tour with his 'Mobile Museum of Modern Media' through Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands. (1970–73)[7]
- 'Street-life' paintings. Elected laureate of the 'Jeune Peinture Belge' at the Palais des Beaux-arts, Brussels (1974).[8]
- Monumental painting series on 'Water', 'Light', 'Time', 'A Vision is Finer than a View' and 'New Models of Reality', which Heyrman describes as painting the existential tension between ideas and images; an appeal to several senses at once,[9] and [10]
- Fuzzy Dreamz series, a work in progress since 1996, which Heyrman describes as the transformation of his painting experiences into digital media and vice versa.[11]
- Various Internet art projects, including the online exhibitions, Digital Studies: Being In Cyberspace 'ALT-X-site' (1997) New York and 'Revelation' ISEA 2000, Paris.[12]
- His works have been presented in major international exhibitions ranging from Antwerp, Brussels, Basel, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Chicago to the Venice Biennale.[13][14]
See also
References
- ^ [1]. Bio: Dr. Hugo Heyrman, M HKA, museum for contemporary art, Antwerp, Belgium.
- ^ Art & Computers: an exploratory investigation on the digital transformation of art. PH.D. thesis, published in Cyber Flux News, July 1997, and in the Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist, London and New York, Routledge, 2001.
- ISBN 3-8325-0600-4.
- ^ In 1997, Heyrman participated at "Digital Studies: Being In Cyberspace". A landmark exhibition of new media art and theory, the first-ever online net art exhibition was organized by Mark Amerika and Alex Galloway, http://altx.com/ds/index2.html See also: Histories of Internet Art: Fictions and Factions - Curation Sites, https://art.colorado.edu/hiaff/curationSites.html
- ISBN 90-420-0606-4
- ^ Becoming Post-ego., published in the Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist, London and New York, Routledge, 2001.
- ^ The 'Continental Video & Filmtour' project started in front of the International Cultural Centrum ICC, Royal Palace, Meir, Antwerp, on March 31st 1973. http://www.doctorhugo.org/cinemabus/modernmedia.html
- ^ Historique, La Jeune Peinture Belge, Lauréats 1950-1992, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. https://web.archive.org/web/20050208204047/http://www.bozar.be/jpbjbs/fr/terugblik_1950.htm
- ^ Buyck, F. Jean, Hugo Heyrman's "Pictural Option", August 1986. http://www.doctorhugo.org/paintings/bibliography/picturaloption.html.
- ^ Buyck, F. Jean, Hugo Heyrman ‘Pictor Ecologicus’. Originally published as introduction to the retrospective exhibition of Hugo Heyrman’s paintings in the Antwerp Royal Museum of Fine Arts (1984, October 13 - December 9). Translated from Dutch by Joris Duytschaever. http://www.doctorhugo.org/paintings/bibliography/pictorecologicus.html
- ISBN 0-262-16230-X
- ^ ISEA 2000 International Symposium on Electronic Art, http://www.isea2000.com/an/pop_symp_village.htm Archived 2012-07-22 at the Wayback Machine Paris, December 2000.
- ISBN 88-435-6152-9
- ^ "The CyberBull of Venice". InEnArt. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
Further reading
- Késenne, Joannes, Dr. Hugo Heyrman / Monography, 2008, [BE] Snoeck Publishers & De Zwarte Panter, Bilingual edition Dutch and English, ISBN 978-90-5349-685-5
External links
- Official website Dr. Hugo Heyrman
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