UNEXPECTED OBSTACLES
The Work of Perry Hoberman

Gallery OTSO
19.9-26.10.1997

http://www.hoberman.com/perry/otso/

On September 18th, UNEXPECTED OBSTACLES, a major retrospective of the
work of New York-based artist PERRY HOBERMAN opens at the OTSO Gallery
in Tapiola, Finland. A full color catalog, with essays on the artist's
work, will accompany the exhibition.

For nearly two decades, Perry Hoberman has been working with a wide
variety of technologies, ranging from utterly obsolete to seasonably
state-of-the-art. His retrospective at the OTSO Gallery (the artist's
first) includes more than fifty sculptures and installations, including
"Faraday's Garden," a viewer-activated symphonic appliance installation;
"The Empty Orchestra Cafe," a radical post-performance neo-karaoke bar;
"Cathartic User Interface," a therapeutic multi-participant input
system; and "Bar Code Hotel," winner of the top prize at the 1995
Interactive Media Festival.

Hoberman has exhibited his work throughout the United States and Europe,
and teaches and lectures widely on art, media, interactivity and virtual
reality. His work is represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York.

The exhibition is curated by Erkki Huhtamo, media researcher, and P