Hugo Heyrman (born 20 December 1942), known by his

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Dr. Hugo Heyrman, is a leading

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painter, filmmaker, internet pioneer, synesthesia and

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researcher.

Early life and education

Dr. Hugo Heyrman was born in Zwijndrecht, he lives and works in Antwerp. Originally, Heyrman opted for a musical education, but transferred to the visual arts. He graduated from the Royal Academy and became a laureate of the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp. In addition, he studied nuclear physics during one year at the State Higher Institute for Nuclear Energy in Mol. He received a Ph.D. in art sciences, magna cum laude, from the

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, in

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with a thesis on ''Art & Computers: an exploratory investigation on the

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of art''.

Career

From his earliest work, Heyrman developed a specific vision on the nature of

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. "Most of my work has to do with contemporary fragility. The works are 'ways of seeing', forms of

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, they make the virtual and mental space of an image real", he declares in his website. His art practice includes

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

drawing Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syste ...

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

and

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. In his website 'Museums of the Mind' he continues to publish his research, theory and experiments on the

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future of art, the

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and

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. During the sixties, Heyrman profiled himself as an avant-garde artist with

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- and

experiments. Online since 1995, Heyrman became one of the pioneers in Net.art. He also participated in 1988 at the 'First International Symposium on Electronic Art' (FISEA) in Utrecht. In 1995, Heyrman coined the terms "tele-synaesthesia" and "post-ego". Since 1993 he is a working member of the

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, Brussels. As of 2006 he was a professor at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Antwerp.

Projects

*''Continental Video & Film Tour'' with his 'Mobile Museum of Modern Media' through Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands. (1970–73) *'Street-life'

paintings Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. Elected laureate of the 'Jeune Peinture Belge' at the Palais des Beaux-arts, Brussels (1974). *Monumental painting series on 'Water', 'Light', 'Time', 'A Vision is Finer than a View' and 'New Models of Reality', which Heyrman describes as painting the existential tension between ideas and images; an appeal to several senses at once, and * Fuzzy Dreamz series, a work in progress since 1996, which Heyrman describes as the transformation of his painting experiences into digital media and vice versa. *Various

Internet art upright=1.3, "Simple Net Art Diagram", a 1997 work by Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden Internet art (also known as net art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance of the phys ...

projects, including the online exhibitions, Digital Studies: Being In Cyberspace 'ALT-X-site' (1997) New York and 'Revelation' ISEA 2000, Paris. * His works have been presented in major international exhibitions ranging from Antwerp, Brussels, Basel, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Chicago to the

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References

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Early life and education

Career

Projects

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