PETER HORVATH
oxygen at 6168 dot org






TENDERLY YOURS (2005)
WEB BASED AUDIO/VIDEO. RUNNING TIME 10 MINUTES

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Tenderly Yours resituates the personal, casual and ambiguous approach of French new wave cinema in a net art narrative that explores love, loss and memory. The story is recited by a striking and illustrious persona, who moves through the city with her lover. Her willful independence is intoxicating, though her sense of self is ambiguous...





INTERVALS (2004)
COMMISSIONED FOR TURBULENCE.ORG
WEB BASED AUDIO/VIDEO. RUNNING TIME 8 MINUTES

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Intervals explores a series of characters whose investigation of self and identity unfold and elide through a sequence of cinematic interludes. At once seductive and illusive, these portraits successively expose their most intimate selves through accounts of lost innocence, fear of the unknown, masculine ritual and the mystery of love...





ALBUM (2004)
FROM THE NET.BASED EXHIBITION ENTITLED "PAUSE".
WEB BASED AUDIO/VIDEO. RUNNING TIME 7 MINUTES

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Unfolding as consciousness itself, ALBUM is a work of collected imagery and sound. This memory piece, which may be considered a condensed historical tracing, reveals a fictional biography that reflects upon the history of an individual recalling experiences of a life in the turbulence of the 20th century.





THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE (2003)
COMMISSIONED FOR THE WHITNEY MUSEUM'S ARTPORT.
WEB BASED AUDIO/VIDEO. RUNNING TIME 6 MINUTES

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In Peter Horvath's films for the web a multi screened, quasi-narrative unfolds with the participation of the viewer. Many of his pieces examine family histories, the city as organism, matters of the heart and the complexities of connection or disconnection with others. His audiovisual reveries share some of the open-ended qualities ...





UNEXPECTED LAUNCHING OF HEAVY OBJECTS (2003)
A PROJECT CONTRIBUTION TO "WARTIME" A PLANET WIDE COLLECTIVE
EXHIBITION BY DIGITAL ARTISTS REFLECTING ON WAR.
WEB BASED AUDIO/VIDEO. RUNNING TIME 2 MINUTES

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In the WARTIME project, over fifty artists, individuals or groups, organizing through the internet, contribute pieces meditating and reflecting on war, past, present and future. A further fifty or so artists are registered to contribute to the project in the future.





EITHER SIDE OF AN EMPTY ROOM (2002)
COMMISSIONED BY THE MUSÉE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS
DU QUÉBEC FOR THE PROJECTED INSTALLATION "ELLIPSE".
WEB BASED AUDIO/VIDEO. RUNNING TIME 14 MINUTES

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The multi-windowed environment of the web browser is employed to mimic random patterns of the thought process where disjointed associations are played out in a sometime distinguishable often undistinguishable looping of images and sounds.





LIFE IS LIKE WATER (2002)
FROM THE MOBILEGAZE.ORG EXHIBIT "MATTER AND MEMORY".
WEB BASED AUDIO/VIDEO. RUNNING TIME 12 MINUTES

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LIFE IS LIKE WATER begins with questions that trigger a state of doubt. Then a series of videos contribute to deepen this impression of spatial and temporal confusion. It becomes difficult to properly identify the situation. It makes us think of a dream, of memories coming back, or of near-death experience stories.





STATEMENT

Formally, I see myself as a participant and investigator in the realm of new media art as it exists on the web. The Web in its binary aspect mirrors the process of choice-making by which we navigate our environments, making it an ideal medium to discuss issues relating to the realm of subjective experience. Conceptually my work derives from and revolves around my unchanging curiosity about the nature of identity and consciousness. To me, identity is related to and generated by what belongs to the spectrum of one‘s history: subjective or objective, microscopic or macroscopic, private, familial, and socio-political. Through my work I attempt to address the difference between conscious and subconscious identity and drives.

In the frontier world of web technology I have found a medium that encompasses and expands the lush, pluralistic and multi-layered qualities of my previous dada-inspired photomontage work. Freed from the restricting two-dimensional context by technological advances, I engage in fragmented narratives and sub-narratives that form and reform as multiple windows open and close. I orchestrate layers of history, including journal entries, sketches, written records, video, photographs, music, voice and general sound loops, resulting in a atmospheric investigation into states of being.



BIOGRAPHY

Peter Horvath works in video, sound, photo and new media. Camera in hand since age 6, he inhaled darkroom fumes until his late 20‘s, then began exploring time based art processes. He immersed himself in digital technologies at the birth of the Web, co-founded 6168.org, a site for net art, and adopted techniques of photomontage which he uses in his net and print based works. Exhibitions include the Whitney Museum Of American Art‘s Artport, the 18th Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany), FILE Electronic Language International Festival (Sâo Paulo, Brazil), Video Zone International Video Art Biennial (Tel Aviv, Israel), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec City, Canada), as well as venues in New York, Tokyo, London, and numerous net.art showings. He is the recipient of commissions from Rhizome.org at The New Museum, NYC (2005) and Turbulence.org New Radio and Performing Arts, Boston (2004). A founding member of the net.art collective Hell.com, he likes to consider a future when high bandwidth will be free.


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