James Hoff (Career Path, Art & Music Practices, NYC in 2000's, Primary Information)

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James Hoff is an artist living and working in New York. His work encompasses a variety of media, including sound, video, painting, and publishing.

Hoff’s multidisciplinary approach begins at the user level—the level at which we interact with consumer technologies, media, and data. He has worked with computer viruses, inaudible data signals, ear worms, culture bound illnesses, dead zones, and hacked google maps as tools and framing devices for works that reimagine and expand the creative potential of digital and cultural networks beyond their economic and corporate-engineered use value.

By exploiting and manufacturing technological and cognitive glitches, Hoff illuminates the social, political, and historical context of the software and media that we interact with on a daily basis.

Hoff co-founded Primary Information in 2006 to publish historical and contemporary artists’ books. The organization has published hundreds of titles, including facsimile editions of Art-Rite, Broken Music, Black Art Notes, Cornelius Cardew’s Stockhausen Serves Imperialism, Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog, and Womens Work as well as new works by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, DeForrest Brown Jr, Tony Conrad, Dara Birnbaum, Constance DeJong, Alexandro Segade, Martine Syms, and Flora Yin-Wong, among many others.

Website: https://www.james-hoff.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jameshoff/

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/_james_hoff

Primary Information: https://primaryinformation.org

Music releases mentioned:

Blaster: https://jameshoff.bandcamp.com/album/blaster

James Hoff — HOBO UFO (v. Chernobyl) (PAN 109): https://vimeo.com/366489963

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