James Hoff is an artist living and working in New York. His work encompasses a variety of media, including sound, video, painting, and publishing. Hoff’s multidisciplinary approach is situated within the user space: the social and political space created through our interaction with consumer technologies, media, and data. Within this fraught arena, a site that manufactures and conditions political, economic, and social subjects, Hoff seeks to create new potentials for the tools, devices, and media we have inherited for the navigation of said space. He has worked with computer viruses, inaudible data signals, earworms, culture bound illnesses, dead zones, and hacked google maps as tools and framing devices for visual, audio, and multimedia works. Hoff’s most recent record, Shadows Lifted from Invisible Hands, was released by Shelter Press in May 2024. He has exhibited and performed at Artists Space, Bergen Kunsthall, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard, Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), The Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva), Hessel Museum of Art, ICA London, The Kitchen, Kunsthall Oslo, The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie, MassMOCA, MoMA/PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver), and the Onassis Cultural Center, among many others.