Visiting Assistant Professor • sahovend@syr.edu

Education
BS, Broadcast Production, Eastern New Mexico University, 1995
MFA, Computer Art, Syracuse University, 2006

Biography
Sean has been creatively invested with media and technology for as long as he's been in existence and the adventure continues... He has worked as a darkroom printer, DJ, video editor, computer animator, web designer and art director. In 1998, Sean founded a media design firm which specializes in digital presentations, interactive media and visual communication services for small businesses, independent artists and nonprofit organizations.

His interactive, procedural and time-based works explore the hidden forces of power, identity and social order within the mediated psyche. His work has been exhibited at the NYC Scope Art Fair, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, George Mason University and the Everson Museum of Art. Most recently, Sean's work has been included in exhibitions of sound art at FutureSonic in Manchester, UK; interactive installation for Experiencing the War in Iraq in Providence, RI; experimental video at the Alternative Space for Contemporary Art in Laredo, TX and digital illustration at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. His work can be viewed online at www.studiofusion.com.

Research Interests
Television, mass media, pop-culture, learned behavior, activism, gender-roles, social norms, consumerism, gray space, algorithms, systems, environmentalism, interactive media, installation, HCI (human-computer interaction), procedural composition, experimental video, generative art, physical computing, photography, net.art, 3-dimensional images, sound art, corporations, memory, interpersonal communication and natural occurring phenomena.

Current Projects
Sean is also exhibiting work as part of the two-person, art collaborative area with John Wesley Mannion. Hovendick and Mannion have exhibited at the 61st Annual Exhibition of Central New York Artists in Utica, NY; the Made in New York 2008 exhibition at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, NY and will have a solo show at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Gallery in Cazenovia, NY in the summer of 2009. The documentary/performance based project known as undetermined measurements reflects interventions on sites determined as "soft targets" according to the Department of Homeland Security that until recently, were of no great concern.

Sean is also working on a physical computing video installation which includes a collection of behavioral studies, a vintage television and long periods of banal voyeurism, a "father-figure" avatar and self-portaits as well as continuing research in 3-dimensional photography, DJ/VJ performance and code-based, procedural animation.

Selected Exhibitions
2008
DNC Slideshow, Group urban projection exhibition, Service for Artists', Denver CO
[PAM] Perpetual Art Machine, Traveling video art exhibition, SCOPE Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
The Bedford Windows Project, Group new media and video art exhibition, Spikehill, Brooklyn, NY
Networked, Group digital art exhibition curated by Donna Kessinger, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
Peepshow '08, Group media art exhibition, Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
61st Exhibition of Central New York Artists, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY

2007
SEFF07: Sound Experimental Film Festival, Sound Art Space for Contemporary Art, Laredo, TX
PLUG-IN: Computer Art BFA student exhibition (Curator), The Redhouse Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
At the Intersection: A Conversation Between Art and Science on Data Visualization, SUNY Oswego, NY
Tech Art III: National juried digital art exhibition, Bancroft Gallery, Cohasset, MA
Construction Destruction: experimental video art, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

2006
Made in NY 2006, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
Everson Biennial: Beauty is in the Eye of the Artist, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Side Show: Recent work by Ben Entner & Sean Hovendick, Delavan Art Center, Syracuse, NY
[PAM] Perpetual Art Machine, Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
Video Now! 2006, Video art exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
It Moves/It Moves Me!, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2005
La 7th Bienal De Video Y Nuevos Medios De Santiago, Video art group exhibition, Santiago, Chile
The Future of Digital Art (Co-curator), SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY
Super fun_d, Collaborative multimedia installation, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
Tech Art II - National juried digital art exhibition, Bancroft Gallery, Cohasset, MA
Lower West Side Film Festival, National juried film festival, Collective: Unconscious, New York, NY
Digital Art Extravaganza, 2D digital art group exhibition, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, NY