gcraighobbs /210 /Bio

Narrative Biography

Short version

G. Craig Hobbs’ work addresses themes at the intersection of nature, culture, and technology in the mediums of photography, digital film/ video, interactive programming, music, and performance. Hobbs specializes in large-scale projection design, content development, and live performance utilizing generative video applications for music, theater, dance, and site-specific installations.

Hobbs holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from California Institute of the Arts, and is currently an MFA candidate in the Digital Arts and New Media at University of California, Santa Cruz. As a projection designer and VJ he has worked alongside artists including Thomas Dolby, Sound Tribe Sector 9, LTJ Bukem, Ahleuchatistas, the North Carolina Stage Company, and Terpsicorps Theater of Dance.

Medium version

G. Craig Hobbs’ work addresses themes at the intersection of nature, culture, and technology in the mediums of photography, digital film/ video, interactive programming, music, and performance. Hobbs specializes in large-scale projection design, content development, and live performance utilizing generative video applications for music, theater, dance, and site-specific installations.

Hobbs’ creative process is rooted in collaboration, and is interdisciplinary by nature. As an audiovisualist he works from an extensive collection of found, archival, and self-produced material including photography, digital video, and real-time data. Digital sources are synthesized into site-specific video performances utilizing generative software applications, hardware mixers, and video projectors. Hobbs has experimented with projection surfaces including domes, tetrahedrons, fog banks, textiles and buildings.

As a media activist and technician, Hobbs has forged creative alliances with poets, musicians, artists, and community activists to further a progressive agenda based on community building and collaborative exploration. He is a long time contributor to an award winning news weekly published in print, online, and via public access television - the Asheville Global Report, and long time collaborator with haiku poet Marlene Mountain. Hobbs has traveled throughout India, Indonesia, Europe, and America. In Germany he studied the work of Joseph Beuys and anti-fascist trance collectives, in India Hindustani art and music, and in Indonesia Balinese Gamelan and temple rituals.

Hobbs holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from California Institute of the Arts, and is currently an MFA candidate in the Digital Arts and New Media at University of California, Santa Cruz. As a projection designer and VJ he has worked alongside artists including Thomas Dolby, Sound Tribe Sector 9, LTJ Bukem, Ahleuchatistas, the North Carolina Stage Company, and Terpsicorps Theater of Dance.

Long version

G. Craig Hobbs’ work addresses themes at the intersection of nature, culture, and technology in the mediums of photography, digital film/ video, interactive programming, music, and performance. Hobbs specializes in large-scale projection design, content development, and live performance utilizing generative video applications for music, theater, dance, and site-specific installations.

Hobbs’ creative process is rooted in collaboration, and is interdisciplinary by nature. As an audiovisualist he works from an extensive collection of found, archival, and self-produced material including photography, digital video, and real-time data. Digital sources are synthesized into site-specific video performances utilizing generative software applications, hardware mixers, and video projectors. Hobbs has experimented with projection surfaces including domes, tetrahedrons, fog banks, textiles and buildings.

As a media activist and technician, Hobbs has forged creative alliances with poets, musicians, artists, and community activists to further a progressive agenda based on community building and collaborative exploration. He is a long time contributor to an award winning news weekly published in print, online, and via public access television - the Asheville Global Report, and long time collaborator with haiku poet Marlene Mountain. Hobbs has traveled throughout India, Indonesia, Europe, and America. In Germany he studied the work of Joseph Beuys and anti-fascist trance collectives, in India Hindustani art and music, and in Indonesia Balinese Gamelan and temple rituals.

Hobbs holds a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from California Institute of the Arts, and is currently an MFA candidate in the Digital Arts and New Media at University of California, Santa Cruz. As a projection designer and VJ he has worked alongside artists including Thomas Dolby, Sound Tribe Sector 9, LTJ Bukem, Ahleuchatistas, the North Carolina Stage Company, and Terpsicorps Theater of Dance.

Hobbs’ graduate research is currently focused on narrative synthesis. Informed by both progressive and recursive form in film and music, he is focused on narrative themes as conveyed through mise-en-scène, milieu, ambience, and space, as much as traditional plot and compositional structure. Hobbs is developing a content-typing schema for digital video and audio files to be used in both live performance and autonomously generated installations, moving toward performance and programming methodologies for scene and event driven narratives influenced by architectural space, viewer presence/ input, the passage of time, and situational conditions using object oriented programming environments such as Processing and MAX/MSP.