611 talk: James Hoff

Thursday, October 17, 2019, 1pm
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
611 Alexander Street, Vancouver

James Hoff is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, N.Y. He works in a variety of media, including painting, sound, and performance. In recent years, his work has focused on language and media systems at the intersection of developing technologies and traditional artistic genre forms. He has created paintings and music using computer viruses and developed several bodies of work that examine how the language of network communication has changed our contemporary notions of landscape and nature. Hoff is also a co-founder and editor at Primary Information, a nonprofit arts organization devoted to publishing artists’ books.