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Hugo Heyrman, more commonly Dr. Hugo, (born
December 20, 1942), is a Belgium|Belgian painter,
multimedia artist and a theorist of new media.

Dr. Hugo was born in Antwerp, where he lives and
works. From his earliest work, Dr. Hugo developed
a transformative vision, a pictorial questioning
of perception and visual thinking, bridging real
and virtual space. His art practice includes
painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video,
film and digital media. In his online project
'Museums of the Mind' he continues his research,
theory and experiments on the telematic future of
art, the senses & synaesthesia.

Originally, Dr. Hugo opted for a musical
education, but transferred to the visual arts. He
graduated from the Royal Academy and became a
laureate of the National Higher Institute for Fine
Arts in Antwerp. In addition, he studied nuclear
physics during one year at the State Higher
Institute for Nuclear Energy in Mol. He received a
doctoral degree, PhD in art sciences, magna cum
laude, from the Universidad de La Laguna, Santa
Cruz de Tenerife with a thesis on Art & Computers:
an exploratory investigation on the digital
transformation of art. In 1995 he coined the terms
'tele-synaesthesia' and 'post-ego'. Since 1993 he
is a working member of the Royal Flemish Academy
of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels.
Since 2000, representative of the Belgian
Synaesthesia Association. He is currently
professor at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts,
Antwerp.

During the sixties, Dr. Hugo profiled himself as
an avant-garde artist with happenings,  film- and
video experiments. In 1970-73 he made a
'Continental Video & Film Tour' with his 'Mobile
Museum of Modern Media' through Belgium, Germany,
France and the Netherlands. For his 'Street-life'
paintings, he was elected laureate of the 'Jeune
Peinture Belge' (1974) at the Palais des
Beaux-arts, Brussels. In monumental series on
'Water', 'Light', 'Time', 'A Vision is Finer than
a View' and 'New Models of Reality', Dr. Hugo
paints the existentially tension between between
ideas and images; an appeal to several senses at
once — "I bring the visual and the conceptual,
synesthetically closer together". For Dr. Hugo
ideas are tools; his personal approach to surface,
texture and colour contributes to the
possibilities of painting, and the adventure of
the visual arts.

Online since 1995, Dr. Hugo became one of the
pioneers in Net.art. He participated in 1988 at
the 'First International Symposium on Electronic
Art' (FISEA) in Utrecht. In the Fuzzy Dreamz
series, a work in progress since 1996, he
transforms his painting experiences into digital
media and vice versa. He took part in various
Internet art projects, including the online
exhibitions, Digital Studies: Being In Cyberspace
'ALT-X-site' (1997) New York and 'Revelation' ISEA
2000, Paris. His works have been presented in
major international exhibitions ranging from
Antwerp, Brussels, Basel, Amsterdam, Paris,
Barcelona and Chicago to the Venice Biennale.

==External links==

* http://www.doctorhugo.org/index.html  Museums of
the Mind - a web project by Dr. Hugo Heyrman,
exploring the telematic future of art and mind.
Online since 1995.  
* http://www.doctorhugo.org/paintings/index.html 
Works - a chronology of paintings, drawings,
writings and biography.
* http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/index.htm
Synesthesia and the Arts -  homepage of the
Belgian Synesthesia Association.
*
http://www.doctorhugo.org/bodylanguagesequences/se
ries1/index.html  Body Language Sequences - a  
web project of ultra-short films.
* http://www.doctorhugo.org/dreamz/  Fuzzy Dreamz
- a cinematic online experiment, forming a
psychogeography of dreams.
* http://www.doctorhugo.org/e-poetry/e-poetry.html
Electronic Poetry - visual poetry & interactive
poems.
*
http://www.doctorhugo.org/I-Dreams/movies/2intro.h
tml Interactive Dreams - early electronic poetry
(1995) for Netscape 1.1 & 2.0 animated.
* http://www.doctorhugo.org/streetlife/intro.html 
10 sec. Streetlife - created in 1988 for the
'First International Symposium on Electronic Art'
(FISEA) Utrecht, NL.