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Anton Perich is a Croatian-American filmmaker, photographer and video artist, born in Dubrovnik, SR Croatia, in 1945. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1970.
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. website retrieved September 12, 2011
In 1978, he founded NIGHT as an interactive "gallery space" for his photography and the nightly activities at places such as Studio 54. In 2006, he had a video retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives, in New York.
In 2012, the Italian film production Minimal Cinema produced In the fabulous underground, an unconventional art documentary and a portrait of Perich as an artist and as a man, directed by Claudio Romano and Mauro John Capece and produced by Betty L'Innocente. The film was screened at the contemporary art center of New Orleans on Saturday the 13th.
His son, Tristan Perich, is a noted composer and visual artist.
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