Anton Perich is an American filmmaker, photographer and video artist,
born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in 1945. He has lived and worked in New
York City since 1970.From 1965 to 1970, Perich lived in Paris, France
and became close to the group of poets and artist working in the
Lettrism group: (Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître), but also with the
French film underground milieu (Piero Heliczer, Michel Auder, Raphaël
Bassan, Slobodan Pajic, Pierre Clémenti). During that period, Perich
changed his first name and became Antoine Perich, because Anton was
not familiar a name in France. He was among the first activists to
present, every week, programs of avant-garde and underground films at
the American Center in Paris.He moved to New York in 1970, became
friends with Andy Warhol and contributed as a photographer to
Warhol’s Interview. He also worked as a busboy at the legendary
Max's Kansas City, where he photographed the scene as an ongoing art
performance every night, along with exhibiting the photos on the
walls.In 1977-78, he designed and built an electric painting machine,
an early predecessor of the inkjet printer. The development of this
machine rendered Perich a pioneer of electric-digital-computer art.
born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in 1945. He has lived and worked in New
York City since 1970.From 1965 to 1970, Perich lived in Paris, France
and became close to the group of poets and artist working in the
Lettrism group: (Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître), but also with the
French film underground milieu (Piero Heliczer, Michel Auder, Raphaël
Bassan, Slobodan Pajic, Pierre Clémenti). During that period, Perich
changed his first name and became Antoine Perich, because Anton was
not familiar a name in France. He was among the first activists to
present, every week, programs of avant-garde and underground films at
the American Center in Paris.He moved to New York in 1970, became
friends with Andy Warhol and contributed as a photographer to
Warhol’s Interview. He also worked as a busboy at the legendary
Max's Kansas City, where he photographed the scene as an ongoing art
performance every night, along with exhibiting the photos on the
walls.In 1977-78, he designed and built an electric painting machine,
an early predecessor of the inkjet printer. The development of this
machine rendered Perich a pioneer of electric-digital-computer art.
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