James Hoff

Born in United States, 1975

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Hoff is a multidisciplinary artist known for her work in sculpture, 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 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. He has exhibited or performed at Artists Space, Bergen Kunsthall, Bielefelder Kunstverein, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), Hessel Museum of Art, ICA London, The Kitchen, Kunsthall Oslo, La Monnaie/De Munt, MassMOCA, MoMA/PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver), and the Onassis Cultural Center, among others.

Hoff co-founded the nonprofit organization Primary Information in 2006 to publish historical and contemporary artists’ books. He has edited or published hundreds of titles, including recent 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.

Works

4'33
4'33, 2015/2026

USB Cable

Dimensions variable

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