Erik Hobijn
Erik Hobijn (NL) is an artist.
Has Dutch nationality and lives in Berlin. Is the founder of the Techno-Parasites and member of the the art group Netband. He made several extreme installations in which fire is an important part of the work. The installation Dante Organ consists of 12 flame throwers controlled by a computer and Delusions of Self-Immolation is a machine of controlled self arson.
Erik Hobijn is creator of the interactive installation Olfactoric Nervous System and the interactive installation Delusions of self-immolation. He participated in the V2_ book Book for the Electronic Arts. He is a participant of the program Wiretap 5.07 (1999), Tekkie Therapy at the opening, program Performances on "The Matter of Media" (1996), the program Wiretap 1.02 (1995), Lessons in Modesty in the exhibition The Body in Ruins (1993). He is the author of the lecture Techno-Parasites, Bringing the Machinic Unconscious to Life.
He belongs to the collective Netband (NL).

